Hi,

I am new to Linux. Need help on Sound Card Installation.

The sound card is on-board Intel chipset. The details which I get when I rum sndconfig are

Vendor: Intel Corp
Model: 82801AA Ac'97 Audio
Module: i810_audio

The vi /var/log/messsages gives the foll. error

Oct 10 09:01:15 marigold kernel: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.22, 13:45:06
Sep 4 2002
Oct 10 09:01:15 marigold kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.5
Oct 10 09:01:15 marigold kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
Oct 10 09:01:15 marigold kernel: i810: Intel ICH 82801AA found at IO 0xdc00 and
0xd800, IRQ 5
Oct 10 09:01:15 marigold kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 2 channels.
Oct 10 09:01:15 marigold kernel: i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
Oct 10 09:01:15 marigold kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4144:0x5340 (Analog Devices AD1881)
Oct 10 09:01:15 marigold kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels = 2

I think the last is of problem

The sound card is installed properly but no sound even when I play XMMS

Please suggest.

Thanks in Advance

Warm Regards,

Manoj

You may still have a working sound system. That error may just tell you that it doesn't support surround (not sure about that).

To test the sound system, of course, make sure that speakers are connected correctly and turned on and so on...
Then find an .au file. Older distros used to include an au file where Linus tells us how he pronounces "Linux".
You can download it from here.

Save the file to your home directory, open a console (shell, terminal, whatever), change the directory to your home folder or where the file is and type:

cat english.au > /dev/dsp
or
cat english.au > /dev/audio

You may hear sound.

Also, check the mixer settings. You will find kmix by clicking the star button (Start if you're used to M$ windoze), Multimedia, Sound, then Kmix.
Play with the mixer, you may find that the volume settings are not right by default.

If you still don't get sound, you may have to post some logs.

Still no sound. I tried with that but still no sound.

The modules.conf gives the foll.

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 3c59x
alias usb-controller usb-uhci

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.0-hh1 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

Regards,

Manoj Patil.