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Distribution: Slackware 11, Solaris 10, Solaris 9, Sourcemage 0.9.6
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No sound on Gentoo 2006.0
Hi
I installed Gentoo, but I haven't got any sound . I tried installing every ALSA utility in Portage, with no luck. I tried setting up sound like the Gentoo docs said, which didn't work. The driver is compiled into the kernel. The weird thing is that it looks like sound it working, sound can be adjusted in alsamixer, I can turn the device on in alsaconf, but I can't hear anything. The card is a SiS AC'97 and uses the snd-intel8x0 driver.
Do you have ALSA support compiled into the kernel? Also, do you have the *correct* AC 97 driver compiled in? I ask the second one because my laptop runs an intel chipset so for its AC 97 I have to use intel8x0 driver BUT my server uses a via chipset so for its AC 97 I have to use the Via VT8XXX driver. Verify your chipset with lspci
Here is mine:
Code:
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
The second from last line gave me insight for which driver to look for. Hope this helps
That was the line you were looking for. You have an SiS card built into your motherboard. It looks like Emerson has already told you what you need to recompile into your kernel if you haven't already.
I had same problem followed the ALSA guid in the Gentoo site that's what I did that helped:
1) go to /etc/make.conf and add
Code:
ALSA_CARDS="SND_INTEL8X0"
2) emerge alsa-utils
3) rc-update add alsasound boot
4) /etc/init.d/alsasound start
5) alsamixer
6) in alsamixer Master and PCM might be muted unmute them by pressing "m".
7) set the vol lvl in Master and PCM and whatever you need more.
It should work now try xmms or any other program but make sure they set to use alsa (need to set it in xmms as I know).
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