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Old 04-09-2006, 12:58 PM   #1
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Sound not working in elive


Hi

I have installed elive on my laptop and everything seems to be working ok, but i cant get the sound to work. Is there someone who knows how to fix this in elive?

I have tried running alsaconf and alsamixer without a positive result. It would be really nice if someone could help me here.

Over to another subject, but on the same system..does someone know how to get a norwegian keyboard in elive?

I have tried running the command: loadkeys no and loadkeys no-latin1
but it doesnt change anything.

I have used debian before and i know this is a debian based system. I got the sound working fine in debian after running alsaconf, but the same is not working in elive.


Help to these problems would be appericiated

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Old 04-09-2006, 01:26 PM   #2
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What soundcard do you have? (If you don't know, run /sbin/lspci and post the output.)
 
Old 04-09-2006, 02:17 PM   #3
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The output of lspci is as follows:

Code:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
0000:01:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
0000:01:03.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
0000:01:03.2 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
0000:01:03.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
0000:01:03.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
I guess its this sound card:
Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller

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Old 04-09-2006, 05:40 PM   #4
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Is it noone who can help with this problem?
 
Old 04-10-2006, 11:14 AM   #5
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You can't expect that every question is always going to be answered within 10 minutes. I checked in the hardware compatability database on this site, read the reviews of your card, and saw that some mentioned a driver, so I searched on Google and found that there should be an ALSA driver for it. If you have some kind of hardware listing tool (every decent distro should have one), use that and see if it finds your soundcard (check under System Tools, Utilities, and System Settings in your applications menu or main menu), find where it shows the driver associated with the device, and see if it's using 'snd-intel8x0', which is the ALSA driver that's supposed to work with your card. If it is using the right driver, then maybe you should file a bug report on alsa-project.org for that driver? Otherwise, try to get a newer distro which will have a newer version of ALSA (or download the latest version of ALSA and build it yourself).
 
Old 04-10-2006, 03:36 PM   #6
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Hi. Sorry about being so deperate, but i have for a couple of days now tried to figure this out. I have tried to install all the newest alsa files and even compiled a new kernel.

The result i got of this is that when i now ran alsaconf it finds a card that has the name of "Intel etc." and when that is configured i get some sound, but very low. I have set the higest volume and still get a very low. When i plug in my headset i get no sound what so ever and thats weird isnt it? hmm.

When i tried compiling the alsa driver files i configured it and then when compile i got an error which i didnt understand so it didnt finish. I will check a little on the net for "snd-intel8x0" because i cant find it in the list of modules.

Thanks for your help

edit: i tried now loading the module snd-intel8x0 and it loaded, but the sound wont get any higher.

Last edited by hondo; 04-10-2006 at 03:44 PM.
 
Old 04-11-2006, 02:32 PM   #7
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Strange, maybe this is bug report-worthy?
 
  


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