ATIIXP/AC'97 Sound Card Driver problem?

secretservgy · 03-08-2007, 06:30 PM

Hello,
In my laptop, I'm using a ATIIXP sound card, with an AC'97 chip. I usually experience problems with sound, such as sound only working sometimes on boot up, and others not. A new problem arose the other day, sound won't work at all, usually I can start an app like mocp, and I press play, and just won't hear anything. But this time, It won't start due to errors, I'll post that output at the end of this post. I know the hardware is not borked, since I can hear a terminal beep (From TTY1..), which goes through the sound card (there is no sys. speaker). I've read about the noacpi or something to add to /boot/grub/menu.lst, but this doesn't work for me. Any idea? THanks.

PS: Please move this to correct forum if nessacary.

Code:

admin@UBUNTUboxx:~$ mocp
Running the server...
Trying JACK...
Trying ALSA...
ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Trying OSS...

FATAL_ERROR: No valid sound driver


FATAL_ERROR: Server exited

Code:

admin@UBUNTUboxx:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
binfmt_misc            11784  1 
cpufreq_ondemand        6944  1 
cpufreq_userspace       4372  0 
cpufreq_powersave       2048  0 
rfcomm                 38936  0 
hidp                   32000  2 
l2cap                  23300  10 rfcomm,hidp
bluetooth              48996  5 rfcomm,hidp,l2cap
vboxdrv                33156  0 
xt_limit                2816  8 
xt_tcpudp               3584  10 
iptable_mangle          3072  0 
ipt_LOG                 7040  8 
ipt_MASQUERADE          3584  0 
ip_nat                 18348  1 ipt_MASQUERADE
ipt_TOS                 2560  0 
ipt_REJECT              5760  1 
ip_conntrack_irc        6896  0 
ip_conntrack_ftp        7792  0 
xt_state                2432  6 
ip_conntrack           50868  5 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp,xt_state
nfnetlink               7192  2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack
iptable_filter          3328  1 
ip_tables              13128  2 iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
x_tables               14724  8 xt_limit,xt_tcpudp,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables
video                  16644  0 
tc1100_wmi              7428  0 
sbs                    15776  0 
sony_acpi               5516  0 
pcc_acpi               13184  0 
i2c_ec                  5376  1 sbs
i2c_core               22288  1 i2c_ec
hotkey                 10660  0 
dev_acpi               11140  0 
button                  7056  0 
battery                10756  0 
container               4736  0 
ac                      5892  0 
asus_acpi              16792  0 
vfat                   13440  0 
fat                    54556  1 vfat
ipv6                  257632  10 
dm_mod                 60088  5 
md_mod                 78740  0 
ac97_codec             19468  0 
ac97                    5504  0 
snd_ak4531_codec        9088  0 
bcm43xx               124436  0 
ieee80211softmac       30720  1 bcm43xx
ieee80211              33608  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt         6016  1 ieee80211
speedstep_lib           4868  0 
powernow_k8            10888  0 
freq_table              4996  1 powernow_k8
fuse                   41864  0 
af_packet              21768  4 
ndiswrapper           201744  0 
fglrx                 405164  8 
sr_mod                 17060  0 
sbp2                   23304  0 
scsi_mod              141320  2 sr_mod,sbp2
parport_pc             36132  0 
lp                     11972  0 
parport                37320  2 parport_pc,lp
pcmcia                 38972  0 
sk98lin               187860  0 
joydev                 10304  0 
tsdev                   8256  0 
sky2                   40452  0 
snd_atiixp             19852  0 
snd_seq_dummy           4100  0 
snd_seq_oss            34304  0 
snd_seq_midi            9088  0 
snd_rawmidi            25600  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      7808  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_atiixp_modem       16136  0 
snd_ac97_codec         96672  2 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem
snd_ac97_bus            2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            46080  0 
snd_mixer_oss          18560  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                80520  4 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq                53360  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              23172  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          8972  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
psmouse                40072  0 
yenta_socket           27916  1 
rsrc_nonstatic         14336  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            42128  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd                    55428  12 snd_ak4531_codec,snd_atiixp,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9952  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         10504  3 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_pcm
serio_raw               7300  0 
shpchp                 40856  0 
pci_hotplug            31284  1 shpchp
ati_agp                 9612  0 
agpgart                33456  2 fglrx,ati_agp
pcspkr                  3072  0 
evdev                  10496  2 
rtc                    12596  0 
ext3                  138888  1 
jbd                    55700  1 ext3
ehci_hcd               32520  0 
ohci1394               35248  0 
ieee1394              302904  2 sbp2,ohci1394
ohci_hcd               20740  0 
usbcore               130304  4 ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ide_generic             1536  0 
ide_cd                 32416  0 
cdrom                  37792  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ide_disk               17664  3 
generic                 5252  0 
atiixp                  6544  1 
thermal                14600  0 
processor              26028  2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan                     5124  0 
fbcon                  40480  0 
tileblit                2944  1 fbcon
font                    8448  1 fbcon
bitblit                 6272  1 fbcon
softcursor              2432  1 bitblit
vesafb                  8348  0 
capability              5000  0 
commoncap               7808  1 capability

Code:

admin@UBUNTUboxx:~$ dmesg|grep ati
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
[17179569.896000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4783.21 BogoMIPS (lpj=9566431)
[17179569.912000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[17179569.912000] Freeing SMP alternatives: 0k freed
[17179571.384000] ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179574.584000] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179575.072000] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179575.176000] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179576.216000] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179598.916000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[17179642.248000] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1-mh1

By the way, I'm running KDE.