Hi I'm runing Mandrake 10.0 on my HP Pavillion zv5150 notebook. Everything seem to work fine. The only problem I'm facing is with the integrated soundmax soundcard. I would be glad if someone could help me find drivers for ma soundmax sound card.

Have you tried installing ALSA? ALSA will probably do job fine, just follow installing instructions you get with tarball.
Also, you should browse your laptop manual to see what chipset your sound card uses.
(I have Soundmax sound card on ASUS A7V8X-MX motherboard and ALSA works fine.)

Hey there... I have exactly the same issue... except my notebook is a zv5034us HP model. Have you found a solution yet. I tried installing the alsa driver, but the instructions are rather sketchy for someone who has not done this before. I followed them as best I could, but every time I try to modprobe the driver, it says it can't find it.

Any advice?

I am having a problem like the rest of you. I have a zv5120us and I am having a heck of a time getting the sound working. Right now I have it to the point where it will play music or sound, but it constantly sounds like a cd skipping.

Here is an lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5838
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4347 (rev 01)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4348 (rev 01)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 16)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434d (rev 01)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5835
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:07.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:07.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:07.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)

This is the end of dmesg

atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 3c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 3c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 3c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 3c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 3c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 3c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
AC'97 2 does not respond - RESET
AC'97 2 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.


Also sometimes my computer starts with the mute button (the one below the touchpad) lit up, which makes my soundcard look like it isn't even there. If anyone has any ideas on this the help would be much appreciated

For the modprobe command, go to /usr/src/<linux kernel> and run menuconfig, and turn modules on, that should solve that. Then, at the alsa website, look up the compatible drivers and click on details - it should give rather useful instructions to install it - my soundcard works, but its still a bit sketchy, just needs some fine tuning. (I did have the same problem - on a zv5034 as well, too).

how did you get your soundcard to work with the skipping? btw, you have to run "make menuconfig", not just menuconfig.

Hello. I have FreeBSD. If I don't get the sound card working before 10 am, my step father will reformat my hard disk (I am serious about this, too). I have ALSA, and followed the instructions at http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...undcardTesting, but no sound came out. Could anyone help with this before 5 pm UTC?

Ok. It works. But the sound isn't even recongnisable. I Really hope this is acceptable.

Hi...

If it's scatchy, I kind of doubt it. This is a very old thread, if you want further help, try posting a new thread over at the BSD forum, if you were able to get an extension on your deadline.

Regards...