Hi, Ive been having trouble getting sound on my box from day 1. I have an intel based sound card, this is the info I get from
lspci
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

Ive gone thru alsaconf and it find an 8x0 intel device, but never works, alsamixer doesnt find any elements, and I get a lot of these messages in dmesg

ALSA /home/rodrigo/alsa-driver-1.0.8/alsa-kernel/pci/intel8x0m.c:401: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300]
ALSA /home/rodrigo/alsa-driver-1.0.8/alsa-kernel/pci/intel8x0m.c:415: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready for register 0x54

Im running slackware 10.0 with 2.6.7 btw

Hi RodCas,

Where did you get the kernel from? ALSA is building its own kernel modules, so I'd advise you to recompile ALSA. I guess you are using the ALSA-driver package that came with Slack 10.0, right? That doesn't work if you don't use the standard kernel shipped with 10.0 (2.4.2x, I don't know exactly at the moment). If you don't understand what I said or if you have any further questions, don't be too shy to ask! :-)

Greetings,

Seppel

what's the ouput of

lsmod

maybe you didn't compile the correct element as a module....

I used the one that came with Slack 10.0, but then I tried the 1.0.8 version and still no good, Im guessing Im doing the install all wrong, Ive tried installing it from swaret and manually downloading from the alsa ftp and installing it manually, how should I start now ? how do i remove the ones I just installed ? I tried removepkg alsa-driver and removed the 1.0.8 driver, and swaret --remove alsa, removed the alsa lib,oss, utils.

Thanx

btw heres my "lsmod"
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 48680 0
snd_mixer_oss 17280 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 212064 17
ohci_hcd 18436 0
ehci_hcd 27012 0
intel_agp 16540 1
uhci_hcd 27920 0
pciehp 89836 0
shpchp 92140 0
i8xx_tco 5524 0
snd_intel8x0 30044 0
snd_intel8x0m 16724 0
snd_ac97_codec 69240 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
snd_pcm 78600 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 21764 1 snd_pcm
snd 48868 7 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6752 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9352 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm
8139too 20352 0
mii 4096 1 8139too
crc32 4096 1 8139too
ds 13572 4
yenta_socket 17536 1
pcmcia_core 52676 2 ds,yenta_socket
vfat 10880 0
fat 38336 1 vfat
nls_utf8 1792 1
ntfs 113388 1
evdev 7168 0
agpgart 26920 2 intel_agp
psmouse 17544 0

look at my thread above this one "Internet and Sound problem", I had the exact same problem, upgrading to 2.6.10 will help or recompiling your current kernel will prolly do to, just make sure to pick the right sound modules, and to make the alsa and oss drivers modules not incorporated into the kernel, that fixed the problem for me (run alsaconf once uve done that)

Palamide - i think you are on your way to becoming slack forum sound guru.

When i install slack 10.1 on my laptop I'll be buzzing you!

Hi RodCas,

I don't know why there are both snd_intel8x0 drivers loaded - I think these are drivers for two different kinds of intel-8x0 soundcards. Try the following:

1. type lsmod again just to make sure they are both still there. If so, do:
2. type "modprobe -r snd_intel8x0m"
3. type "alsamixer" and look if it works.
4. If not, do:
5. type "modprobe -r snd_intel8x0"
6. type "modprobe snd_intel8x0m
7. type "alsamixer"
8. Still not working? Tell us! :-)

Greetings,

Seppel

Nope that didnt work, anyways Im gonna try the kernel recompile, is it ok if I go for 2.6.10 ?

I will be looking to guides on this forum for help for sure, so what do I do with alsa BEFORE I go for 2.6.10, remove or just leave as it is ?

Thanx

I wouldn't recommend to try ALSA with a 2.6.10 kernel, look around here a bit and you'll find some people having problems with 2.6.10 and an Intel-8x0 sounddevice. You should perhaps try the standard kernel of Slackware 10 if you didn't already (that one worked out-of-the-box with my intel-8x0) just to make sure your sounddevice is able to run under linux.

Greetings, Seppel