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Old 05-15-2007, 03:54 PM   #1
gdblackthorn
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Driver Install Problems Suse 10.2, Riptide PCI Audio Controller


I am new to the Linux world, but I tried out Suse 10.0 and tried to get my sound card to work. I decided to install Suse 10.2 instead since ALSA had made some major additions to the sound drivers. I have been trying to get my sound card to work. I have a combo riptide sound/modem card. I only care about setting up the sound, I don't need to modem part of it.

I checked into ALSA to determine if the riptide driver was included and it is. I did notice that version ALSA 1.0.14rc3 did make a few changes that apply to the riptide driver. I went here:
http://www.alsa-project.org/

and examined all the different versions and I have the latest ALSA stable Configurer 1.0.13


linux-4spi:~ # uname -r
Quote:
2.6.18.2-34-default
linux-4spi:~ # lspci
Quote:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge ( rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (re v 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Rockwell International Riptide PCI Audio Co ntroller
00:0b.1 Communication controller: Rockwell International Riptide HCF 56k PCI Mod em
00:0b.2 Input device controller: Rockwell International Riptide PCI Game Control ler
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (r ev 5c)
*********
I checked the following file for its content:

cat/etc/modprobe.d/sound

Quote:
alias snd-card-0 snd-riptide
alias sound-slot-0 snd-riptide
I know something is definitely missing in the above file!

I installed and ran:

alsamixergui

Quote:
function snd_ctl_open failed for default. No such device.
I ran:

KMix

Quote:
shows no current mixer
Mixer cannot be found
Yast - Hardware information

Quote:
-Sound
-Riptide PCI Audio Controller
Bus:PCI
Class (spec): Multimedia audio controller
Class: Multimedia controller
Device (spec): Riptide PCI audio controller
Device Identifier: (spec): 82720
Device identifier: 82720
Device: Riptide PCI Audio Controller
Driver: RIPTIDE

-DRIVERS:

active: Yes
modprobe: Yes

-modules
modprobe snd_riptide

-RESOURCES
Slot ID: 11
Subvendor Identifier: 70197
Subvendor: Risq Modular Systems, Inc.
Unique Key: gZD2.lhPLYKWK4P1
Vendor Identifier: 70266
Vendor: Rockwell International
bus_hwcfg.pci
driver_module: snd_riptide
sysfs_bus_id.0000:00:0b.0
udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_127a_4320
****
More info under PCI (I tried to leave out repeticious data)

io:
active: Yes
length: 64
mode: rw
start:4224

irq:
count 313
enabled: Yes
irq:11

So at least it recognizes what type of card I have & the driver is active!
**************

Note: Yast/Hardware/Sound has never shown any card, nor does it have my card within its add list!

Reminder: Gstreamer (Under Gnome) had the error:

Quote:
Gstreamer Plugins and/or devices not found
I also installed Gamix - QT Mixer for ALSA
gamix - GTK ALSA Audio Mixer

No luck here either, though I now have the option to mount my cd burner!


I also ran dmesg but it is about 5 pages long. I will post it here if it will help.

Last edited by gdblackthorn; 05-15-2007 at 03:58 PM.
 
Old 05-15-2007, 04:17 PM   #2
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On my old machine, I had to compile the audio driver from the linuxant website since that combo card is a winmodem. I never could get the modem part working and ended up buying an external hardware modem. But the audio worked by compiling from source.
 
Old 05-15-2007, 05:36 PM   #3
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Well, I already contacted support at linuxant concerning the drivers they had on their site, and they gave me the following reply:

Quote:
the riptide driver is not compatible with the 2.6 kernel. If you only want to use the sound part of the device, this driver was added to ALSA recently, a newer 2.6 kernel will probably be able to support the sound part of the device.

If you want to use both the sound and the modem of the riptide device, you will have no choice to downgrade to a 2.4 kernel.
...and I only want to use the sound- not the modem. I already have a high speed connection!

Hence: The 2.6 kernel and ALSA 1.0.13

I will check out your links there, Thanks!

Last edited by gdblackthorn; 05-15-2007 at 05:38 PM.
 
Old 05-15-2007, 07:07 PM   #4
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If that's what they said, then they should know. The only other thing I can suggest is to run alsaconfig from the command line.
 
Old 05-16-2007, 03:48 AM   #5
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I had already tried alsaconf. The results are as below:

After going root, I ran alsaconf and it notified me that I should stop the sound driver, which at this point I didn't have a clue as to how to check it, so I just continued.

It came up with two options:

Quote:
Riptide Rockwell International PCI Audio Controller
Legacy Probe Legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips
I chose the Riptide card and continued:

I was asked whether or not I wanted to modify
Quote:
etc/modprobe.d/sound
etc/modprobe.conf
if present. I selected OK

Quote:
Sound Driver is configured - ALSA Configurator will prepare the card for playing now.
Quote:
Now, I'll run alsasound init script, then I'll use amixer to raise the default volumes. You can change the volume later via a mixer program such as Alsamixer or Gamix
Quote:
The Mixer is set up now for playing. Shall I try to play a sound sample now?
I chose yes, and it continued:

Quote:
Playing Waver.....
For adjustment of volume use your favorite mixer.
No sound! I am plugged into the green jack!

I then ran Alsamixer which had the following results:

Quote:
Master 76<>76
MasterM 76<>76
3D Contr MM (I think this was not avail)
PCM 90<>90
PCM out Pre 3D
Line OFF
CD OFF
Mic OFF

Playback
Line OFF
This is to the best of my memory.

Last edited by gdblackthorn; 05-16-2007 at 03:50 AM.
 
  


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