Sound problem with kernel 2.6.11.9
I've been trying to figure out my sound problem for quite some time now, I have a IBM thinkpad R40 series running slackware 10.1 with a 2.6.11.9 kernel and I can't get the sound to work as root. alsaconf says, "No supported PnP or PCI card found", and alsamixer has been unmuted and saved.
my lspci is as follows: Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
Are you using the kernel 2.6.11.9 from slackware upgrades? cause if so, did you upgrade alsa too? you need to upgrade alsa so it can work with the new kernel.
maybe you didn't upgrade alsa so it won't work with this new kernel, you need to download the packages alsa-driver-1.0.8_2.6.11.9- from slack updates. |
did you choose alsa and alsa-oss-emulation as modules.?
if so, you can check with " lsmod " if the modules are loaded. else, try to make them modules. egag |
i downloaded my kernel from www.kernel.org, not slackware so i will try to upgrade alsa now
also, i dont have alsa and alsa-oss-emulation as modules, so i can try that too thanks, I'll let you know if either of these work |
Ok, so i downloaded alsa-driver-1.0.8_2.6.11.9-i486-1 and extracted it to /root/alsa-driver-1.0.8_2.6.11.9-i486-1. I tried to read through the install file, but it doesn't make sense to me, how do i install it?
P.S. sorry for being such a n00b. |
Ok, so I have been doing a lot to get my wireless working and realized that something I did or changed may have conflicted with my sound driver (I donno how) but I decided since I'm still on a fresh install, with just an updated kernel, I'd try to reinstall slackware. When I did that and upgraded to kernel 2.6.11.9 from kernel.org I have the same results. As for upgrading alsa, when i run the ./config file, i get the following:
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root@darkstar:~/alsa-driver-1.0.9a# ./configure but I still dont have sound, do you think it could be a kernel problem? should I compile the newest 2.6.11.11? I'll keep playing around, and checking this website for other related forums because it seems I'm not the only person with this problem. Thanks for the tips thus far. |
correction on the code:
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root@darkstar:~/alsa-driver-1.0.9a# ./configure |
new update
I noticed the following 2 lines during boot: FATAL: Module snd_pcm_oss not found FATAL: Module snd_mixer_oss not found I recompiled the kernel with these 2 modules, so now alsaconf detects my sound card, but I still have no sound. |
Did you unmuted the sound with alsamixer?
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I found an easy fix for the problem with slackware 10.1. The easiest fix for me was to cd to /var/log/packages and completely remove all alsa pacakages using the removepkg tool. I then went to www.alsa-project.org and downloaded the newest driver, lib, util, and oss package (1.0.9) and manually installed each one in this order: driver, lib, util, oss. Install instructions are included in the .bz2 so I wont cover them. I then rebooted and ran alsaconf and then alsamixer and my sound works fine now. Thanks for all of the help. Hope this helps other people with the same problem too.
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Hello. This is my ranting about being fed-up with alsa and my 2.6.11 kernel. I am thankful for the help that people have given on linuxquestions.org and in other forums. I have helped people and newbies on other forums-I consider myself a moderate Linux user. But I have a problem with some overly zealous helpers who do not test out their suggestions before telling what other people to do. They tell people wrong things. They should test their instructions to see if they work before posting them, otherwise it's like the blind leading the blind around here. For example with the alsa no sound problem. I have no sound, alsa support built into the kernel with the OSS emulation. I left out the OSS because I choose Advanced Linux Sound Architecture and not Open Sound System. I have the driver for my onboard sound card built into the kernel, and it won't work. After all the instructions posted by helpers about using alsaconf(alsaconf doesn't work period, i have alsa drivers version 1.08) or alsamixer, and then save the results with 'alsactl store'. Linux is heck to configure, even when your following instructions precisely. After installing linux kernel 2.6.11 things just go down hill. cdrecord says that it has problems with 2.5+ kernels. In addition cdrecord said
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cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.11. There is some more that I left out; try 'cdrecord -scanbus' and see if you get the same message. I am using cdrecord; the result of 'cdrecord --version' = Code:
"Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jorg Schilling" |
Hello,
This probably isn't of much help, but I have also been having a great deal of difficulty getting ALSA to work with a 2.6.x kernel (2.6.10, specifically.) I installed the kernel, kernel headers, modules, kernel source, and updated ALSA-driver packages from the slackware /testing directory. The kernel itself is working just fine, but I can't get ALSA to work for the life of me. When trying to compile the 2.6.11.9 kernel to work with ALSA, I got results similar to the original poster. Now, with the newly installed packages, alsaconf finds the correct soundcard and appropriately installs the module, and alsamixer unmutes everything, but still no sound! lspci: Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 01) Code:
Module Size Used by I understand that there is a reason why this kernel and ALSA was put in the '/testing' directory, but judging by the many other difficulties I have been hearing about ALSA on this board and elsewhere, I am starting to think I might just go back to using OSS... |
alsaconf worked for you. It did not work for me, it said that it could not detect my soundcard but it detected yours-and I have the same exact chipset that you do. If you have the same ALSA driver utility version as me, it would be funny. My version is 1.08. Anyways, sound still doesn't work for me. Let's laugh together!
Here is the output of 'lspci -vv': Code:
01:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 80) |
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