How can Soundcard be detected?
I am using Redhat Linux 8.0 with the kernel version 2.4.18-14 on AMD system. My board is of PCCHIPS M810DLU v7.5c.The processor is AMD DURON 1800+. I have recently installed Linux and got problem with it. The linux doesn't detect my Soundcard which is of C-Media 9738s, it also does not detect my PCI soundcard ESS Maestro-3 (1980s). I have tried many thing but nothing. I have tried many commands like "lspci", "cat /proc/pci" and got error message like no such directory or file, no such command. I have checked that both are compatible with Redhat linux 8.0. Kindly please tell me what should I do? Please help me, please!.....
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Could you post the output of the 'dmesg' command (run in a terminal)? It would help to know if the card is detected but the drivers aren't loading, or if it is not detected at all, and also dmesg might give some indication as to why.
Is this a 'clean' RH install? Did you set up your sound card(s) during the install? Have you upgraded anything since (like your kernel)? Is there any indication in the RH hardware manager that either of the cards exist? Is your BIOS set to use the onboard soundcard (as well as the PCI card), or do you have it turned off and use the PCI sound card instead? You might try the 'sndconfig' command in a terminal (as root). It may or may not work, depending on what is installed on your system. You might also install the ALSA drivers for one or both of your cards (to be found at http://www.alsa-project.org). |
I tried your command and the output of command of "dmesg" is as follow
Linux version 2.4.18-14 (bhcompile@astest.test.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Wed Sep 4 12:13:11 EDT 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000eff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000eff0000 - 000000000eff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000eff8000 - 000000000f000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 239MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 61424 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 57328 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1200.046 MHz processor. Speakup v-1.00 CVS: Tue Jun 11 14:22:53 EDT 2002 : initialized Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2383.03 BogoMIPS Memory: 236992k/245696k available (1311k kernel code, 6400k reserved, 987k data, 212k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults> ramfs: max_pages=29863 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=29863 Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000, vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000 CPU: AMD Duron(tm) stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=2 PCI: System does not support PCI isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found speakup: initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25) Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e block: 448 slots per queue, batch=112 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: ST340015A, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM 52XS, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 127k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,8), internal journal Adding Swap: 489940k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,7), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdc: driver not present ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdd: driver not present ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdd: driver not present ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdc: driver not present Can you tell me what is the problem? That is surely clean Redhat Install The Installation setup didn't give me any option for settingup Soundcard. I did not Upgraded my kernel The soundcard detection tool replied me that "no soundcard detected" The both soundcard performs excellent in windows. I also Disabled My O/B soundcard but it did not detected PCI soundcard I tried sndconfig in the Terminal the out put is as follow sndconfig: no such command Please any body help me what should i do?please............ |
This is what I find of concern:
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Do you have any other PCI cards in your system? Anyway, a search of the error "PCI: System does not support PCI" in Google returns a thread that says adding "pci=bios" fixed the error for the person asking about it. Better still, this RedHat bug report clearly says that this problem is reproducible under RedHat 8, and explains how to add the pci=bios option to your configuration so that your PCI bus will be detected and so thus your sound card. Let us know if it works for you. |
I read your comments and thank you very much
I will search about this bug. But the main problem is that why my built-in soundcard wasn't detected by Linux 8.0? Another problem is that the Linux also doesn't detect my CNR Modem which is of PCTel. What should I do for this? |
Both your onboard sound card and your modem are considered PCI devices. So enabling the system to detect PCI devices by adding pci=bios to your boot options should hopefully solve the problem for all devices.
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Respected Dear Motub,
I can not thanks you You solved my whole problem I edit my /etc/grub.conf and on next boot the system detected whole devices. You have done a great Job for me. The recent output of "lspci" command is as follow 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 740 Host (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 25) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 56k Winmodem (Smart Link HAMR5600 compatible) (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7002 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 6325 Thanks alot. |
My Onboard sound card has also detected
When I got that output it was Disabled from Bios You please kindly tell me how can I switch over to one another I mean I only able to use On Board soundcard. The PCI one is detected but doesn't work |
But I am still Having Problems
Whenever i tried to connect to net The Linux said that the modem is ready But after that it said "initializing modem" and stop there Second The soundcard doesn't play any sound except "test sound" in the soundcard detection menu Now what should I do? |
My modem is on COM 3 port according to Windows. And I tried ttyS1, ttyS2 and ttyS3 on Linux for the modem port
On ttyS2 and ttyS3 it said that Modem is Busy But on ttyS1 it said that Modem is ready to use |
Probably you should reconfigure the modem so that it uses ttS1, or so that ttyS1 points to the same serial port that the modem is connected to. I don't have a modem of any stripe, but this Red Hat page seems to explain how to configure one under RH 8.
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And as far as the sound card not playing sounds goes, you maybe should try the instructions on this RedHat 8 documentation page
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Well I will Try to Enable Sound server at Star-up
But i Tried with Modem to configure it but did not get sucess Does CNR Modems supported by LINUX? and Does PCtel modems support LINUX. |
The modem is detected, but does it have drivers loaded? It's a winmodem, so you might want to read up on getting one to work:
Linmodems.org The Unofficial PCTel Linux Driver page I finaly got my PcTel hsp56 mr modem to work Lucent AMR modem listed as an Intel AC'97 - Smart Link Modems Sorry, that was my mistake, I saw it detected but didn't realize that the drivers probably weren't there. |
Can You please explain me how can I switch between Soundcards? I mean The Linux only uses my O/B soundcard and how can I switch over to ESS Maestro-3 (PCI SOUNDCARD).
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