Sound Card on Toshiba Laptop not being recognized by Gentoo

kingzog · 06-24-2006, 03:02 PM

The title pretty much says it; I have a Toshiba Satilite laptop, and the sound doesn't work under Gentoo. Having tried out Knoppix occasionally while I was installing it, I know that the hardware does in fact work. Gentoo just fails to do whatever it is Linux does to actually use it as a sound card. Any ideas would be appreciated, and I can post results of various error messages (such as "modprobe intel_snd_hda"[sic]) on request.

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 81)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

bulliver · 06-24-2006, 09:01 PM

Is CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL the right driver? You could reboot with a knoppix cd to check.

If so "modprobe snd-hda-intel" should work.

kingzog · 06-25-2006, 08:08 AM

Loading that module doens't get sound wokring. It does get alsamixer to work, but there are no primary output devices.

xmms reports an error of "failed to open audio output: OSS Driver 1.2.10

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(this uses the results of "lsmod | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort" from botting Knoppix 5.0, and then what was on Gentoo after loading some modules)

diff KnoppixModulesSorted GentooModules2

0a1
> 8139cp
3,4d3
< ac
< af_packet
6c5,6
< amd_k7_agp
---
> ahci
> ata_piix
9a10
> ati_agp
11,13c12
< button
< cloop
< container
---
> dm_mirror
15,16d13
< drm
< efficeon_agp
18,21d14
< evdev
< fan
< firmware_class
< fuse
23d15
< ipv6
24a17
> libata
26d18
< nvidia_agp
29,30d20
< pci_hotplug
< pcmcia
31a22
> pcspkr
33,34d23
< radeon
< reiserfs
35a25,36
> rtc
> sata_mv
> sata_nv
> sata_promise
> sata_qstor
> sata_sil
> sata_sis
> sata_svw
> sata_sx4
> sata_uli
> sata_via
> sata_vsc
37c38
< shpchp
---
> sl811_hcd
44d44
< snd_pcm_oss
46d45
< soundcore
49d47
< tsdev
51d48
< unionfs
55d51
< video
56a53,54
> wlan_scan_sta
> wlan_wep

===============================================================

cat GentooModules2

8139cp
8139too
Module
agpgart
ahci
ata_piix
ath_hal
ath_pci
ath_rate_sample
ati_agp
battery
dm_mirror
dm_mod
ehci_hcd
ieee1394
joydev
libata
mii
ohci1394
ohci_hcd
pcmcia_core
pcspkr
processor
rsrc_nonstatic
rtc
sata_mv
sata_nv
sata_promise
sata_qstor
sata_sil
sata_sis
sata_svw
sata_sx4
sata_uli
sata_via
sata_vsc
sbp2
sl811_hcd
snd
snd_hda_codec
snd_hda_intel
snd_mixer_oss
snd_page_alloc
snd_pcm
snd_timer
sworks_agp
thermal
uhci_hcd
usb_storage
usbcore
usbhid
wlan
wlan_scan_sta
wlan_wep
yenta_socket