Sound on debian

trotsky · 12-24-2004, 05:14 AM

Hello everybody.
I've just installed Debian Sarge. Everything works fine, but the sound. I installed Alsa but when I run alsaconf it tells me " No supported PnP or PCI card found.". I remember that when I bought the computer and installed Windows XP I had to install a driver that came with the motherboard CD. The sound card is integrated into the motherboard, I also remember. I've googled a lot but I couldn't find a sound driver for my motherboard.

My motherboard is: ASUS P4S800
I also remember that my sound driver on Windows XP was called "Sound Max something"...

MasterC · 12-24-2004, 05:20 AM

Post the output of:

/sbin/lspci -v

Cool

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 05:21 AM

What sond card is that?
What does -alsamixer- (as root) command say?

trotsky · 12-24-2004, 08:47 AM

Here is what lspci says:

Quote:

0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80b0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 9400 [size=256]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

That was the only thing lspci said that had to do with sound.

alsamixer gives the answer: "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device".

I checked the motherboard CD (which only contains drivers for Windows), and I found that the sound card is called SoundMax Cadenza (
http://www.soundmax.com/products/inf...n/cadenza.html ). They don't mention any linux drivers on their page

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SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 08:51 AM

Well, what is our next logical step?

Right. Install alsamixer and I'd install all alsa

trotsky · 12-24-2004, 09:00 AM

I had installed the three alsa packages "alsa-base", "alsa-headers" and "alsa-oss" already. Now I have installed all other files that have to do with alsa...

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 09:08 AM

alsamixer is required for alsa packages

trotsky · 12-24-2004, 09:14 AM

Eh...alsamixer has always been installed and gives the answer "function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device" as I wrote in a previous post...

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 09:20 AM

Actually reboot is required after installing alsa

And I see that your distro is Debian
If negative after reboot use "apt-get' to remove all alsa and then install it back. Again Alsa requires reboot.

trotsky · 12-24-2004, 09:50 AM

I rebooted and it didn't work. Reinstalled and rebooted and it still didn't work...
When I restarted I noted that Alsa printed a debug thing saying that no soundcards could be found...

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 09:57 AM

What is the name of sound card then. because there is no company producing Sound Max cards

trotsky · 12-24-2004, 10:06 AM

From the site of SoundMax :

Quote:

Analog Devices' SoundMAX Digital Audio System (SoundMAX) is the industry's most reliable and highest performance Digital Audio System that can be fully integrated onto PC motherboards. SoundMAX consists of a series of product offerings that combine AC'97 CODEC hardware with driver/application software to form a complete, digital audio solution for the Windows® PC platform.

This means they produce hardware, or at least they sell hardware, or...?

I know, however, that the sound card is integrated into the motherboard, maybe I shall ask the ones who sold me the PC :P

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 10:06 AM

Sound Max is software for Windoze to enhance sound capabilities

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 10:08 AM

Strange....

because AC97 is fully supported
Research required...

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 10:12 AM

Since that is built-in sound device.Apology if I embarass you

Is it enabled in BIOS?