hello

i just got a new laptop
and installed slackware 9.0
onto it
evyerthign works fine except the sound...

it has a sis 7012 onboard chip
ive searched through the threads but have found nothign useful..
the system seems to htink the sound is working.. but its muted or somehitng..

ive tried installing drivers from the sis site and even recompiling the kernal
with acpi support
but nohting seems to help

he is a section of my dmesg



Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 15:37:49 Mar 11 2003
SiS pirq: advanced IDE/ACPI/DAQ mapping not yet implemented
advanced SiS pirq mapping not yet implemented
i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xd800 and 0xdc00, IRQ 10
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[00030d53243080b3] [Linux OHCI-1394]
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4710 (ALC200/200P)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: 0x5349:0x4c22 (Silicon Laboratory Si3036)
i810_audio: timed out waiting for codec 1 analog ready.


so it seems that the audio codec/module ? loads fine..
but then it says time d out waiting for codec 1??

does htis AC97 Modem codec thing have anyhting to do wiht it..
i don need to use my modem ... how do i tunr it off???

i neeed soooouuunndn hehe please help me

an update...

i can play audio cds..
but no mp3s or wav files or anyhitng like htat

there is a mention in thsi post

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=alsa+sis+701

which kinda says his modem and soundcard causes conflict becuase they use the ac97_codec...
at the same time or somethign similar to that effect..
is there someway i can tunr off my modem all togheter..
as in make it not hotplug load or whateverr
??
any ideas?

This is the very first time I have used a message board. For a long time I didnt believe in them. Since I got into linux recently they have been some help.

I found a working tweak that jump starts the SiS 7012 chip. I was just about confused as the first guy. I thought that the sound was muted, or was set to a low volume. At that time I had just installed Mandrake 9.1, and I had learned how my cd burner worked, so the SiS sound was next on my hardware list. I searched for about an hour for a solution, I got a few pages that had a patch. I never tried that. What I did in fact was turnt the "acpi=off" variable in /etc/lilo.conf to "acpi=on". I am not sure what ACPI is, but since I turnt it on, I havent had any problems and my sound works fine.

I will add in this last section for people who do not know how to edit the lilo.conf file. First I fired up the terminal, got root by typing "su", then my password. Second I typed the command "kwrite /etc/lilo.conf". Kwrite should fire up, if you do not see the acpi=off statment you can add it in on a new line.

I hope this helps.