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Welp, finally managed to make a couple slackware isos and install the damn thing, but I've had several small but annoying problems since...
Luckily, trolling these forums usually provides me with an answer, but I can't find anything to help me this time.
My problem? I can't get my sound to work. I've used alsamixer, alsactl store, all the other mixers I could find through kde, aumix, etc. etc. and set my sound up to pretty much max.
Here's how my hardware situation is... I bought a new motherboard in.. roughly Oct '03. It came with really crappy onboard sound, so I immediately bought a $20 pci sound card.
So far, every distro (knoppix, danix, fedora, arklinux) I've used detected it just fine, with the exceptions of slackware and mandrake 10.
Bah, here's my lspci -v output:
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e1ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at e2010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at a000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at a400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at a800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7380
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
Memory at e2011000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7380
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at ac00 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7380
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 738c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at b400 [size=256]
Memory at e2012000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 9110
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
No sound at all? How about using "ogg123 -o oss /path/to/an/oggFile.ogg".
I have sound problems too, and can't see what's wrong with your set up, but the above works for me. Now I just need to work out how to get arts to use OSS and I'll be content.
Distribution: SlackWare 10.1+, FreeBSD 4.4-5.2, Amiga 1.3,2.1,3.1, Windors XP Pro (makes a fair answering machine)
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I would say it is pretty easy to see where the problem may lay...
If you read your lspci and your lsmod you can see that BOTH of your sound devices have been idented and LOADED. It would be reasonable to assume that there is some conflict here. As suggested earlier check your bios or see if there is a jumper to kill on-board sound. Also when using ALSA you maust NOT load your sound via the kernel. You must only have sound support as (y) and none other as (y) under sound.
That way you have some nifty slak-paks to hold on to......
If you ever re-compile your kernel, you'll have to use 'pkgtool' to uninstall 'alsa-driver' and then re-install it again to replace your sound modules....
On the kernel config I only select:
Sound --->
<*> Sound card support
Thats it.... By installing alsa from source, the alsa-driver package will create all the necessary modules which are placed into:
/lib/modules/<uname -r>/kernel/sound
Thats all you should have to do.... Really easy and you get the latest ALSA to boot.....
I'd also like to agree with Nichole_knc......... Your on-board and PCI may be conflicting with eachother.... Your PCI card should supersede the onbaord sound.... Should anyway..... Blacklist those on-board modules from loading if thats the problem..... Maybe that would rectify the problem...
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