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
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)
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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
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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.
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I ran:
KMix
Quote:
shows no current mixer
Mixer cannot be found
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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
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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
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So at least it recognizes what type of card I have & the driver is active!
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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
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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.