sound issues -- alsaconf claiming not to see any cards

TMH · 02-25-2005, 01:37 PM

I am attempting to get sound working on my laptop, which is an IBM thinkpad X40. Sound has worked in the past with other distros (SuSE), but I am now using Gentoo. This is the only real problem that I have not been able to fix with a few weeks of RTFM-ing. I usually like to find out the answer to the problem myself, but I seriously cannot find any guides to help alleviate this problem.

I believe I have compiled the correct option into the kernel, lspci -v says:

Code:

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0558
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at 1c00
        I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
        Memory at d0100c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Memory at d0100800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

I have compiled the "CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0" kernel option, which I believe is the correct option for this card. However, running alsaconf causes it to say "No supported PnP or PCI cards found", where I know my card is a PCI device. I have run /etc/init.d/alsasound stop at this point, as the alsasound program recommends.

Usually I have something to work with, but in this case, I am completely lost. I have been without sound for nearly a month now. Please help me

Thanks for reading, even if you don't know what's wrong.

Moloko · 02-25-2005, 03:53 PM

Alsa likes modules so it can load them. Did you compile them in kernel previously when sound was working or were they modules?

TMH · 02-25-2005, 05:58 PM

I have always compiled everything into the kernel when I can. When sound was working, I had the sound driver compiled into the kernel, but I'm not sure if I was using alsa or oss. I will try compiling my sound driver as a module and see if that helps.

TMH · 02-26-2005, 04:18 AM

Oh my god, you're a genius. It works, thanks!

Moloko · 02-26-2005, 11:34 AM

nice