sound problems with on-board realtek chip
Hi everyone!
Please help me with my problem which I have been trying to solve for some days. I'm relatively new to Linux so take it easy on me. I have a Gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 Gigabyte motherboard with an onboard Realtek ALC883 CODEC chip. On my Mepis 64 (kernel 2.6.15-27)this chip is not detected (no entries in lspci for sound or in hal-device-manager) I have no mixer appearing in kmix, no sliders, etc. I deintalled/installed everything related to mixers, sound configuration but in vain. On Windows I have no problems as I had no problems with SimplyMepis 6.0rc2-i386. I have an AMD 3800+ 64bit processor, if that is of any help.PLEASE give me a sollution 'cause I'm desperate. I have to work on windows and I hate it. thanks in advance |
try to compile and install the latest version of alsa, it might have support for your particular chipset. if the latest alsa does not detect it then i have no idea what more you can do.
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sound problems with onboard realtek chip
OK, a thousand thanks for the advice. I will do that. Ithought it to be the sollution but I wanted other opinions too from the more experienced ones out there. Thanks again
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I've installed alsa again with everything in it - utils, drivers, modules,etc. but I still have the problem. Kmix says no mixers foundand when I run alsamixer from console it says alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory. lsmod output is Module Size Used by
fglrx 445940 8 rfcomm 35360 0 l2cap 22784 5 rfcomm bluetooth 45188 4 rfcomm,l2cap ppdev 8584 0 video 16776 0 thermal 13708 0 tc1100_wmi 7432 0 sony_acpi 5908 0 pcc_acpi 14080 0 hotkey 11464 0 fan 5000 0 dev_acpi 12932 0 container 4864 0 button 7072 0 acpi_sbs 22680 0 battery 10120 1 acpi_sbs i2c_acpi_ec 5888 1 acpi_sbs i2c_core 19712 1 i2c_acpi_ec ac 5512 1 acpi_sbs ndiswrapper 198208 0 ipv6 248960 10 cpufreq_userspace 7904 0 cpufreq_powersave 2944 0 cpufreq_ondemand 8104 0 freq_table 5056 0 processor 24104 1 thermal af_packet 19852 2 dm_mod 47816 1 usblp 12928 0 md_mod 60664 0 parport_pc 33904 1 lp 11712 0 via_rhine 22148 0 shpchp 42528 0 pci_hotplug 26896 1 shpchp parport 35084 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp mii 6016 1 via_rhine serio_raw 7428 0 ohci1394 30412 0 psmouse 34820 0 pcspkr 3080 0 floppy 63496 0 ohci_hcd 19076 0 evdev 10880 1 It seems it does not load any sound modules. on the other hand I found my onboard device in hal-device-manager. if it is of any help, here is the lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1) 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2) 0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2) 0000:00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2) 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1) 0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2) 0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1) 0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2) 0000:00:06.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 0000:00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 0000:01:07.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 8b) 0000:01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)] 0000:02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)] Secondary pleas tell me what to do in order to get my sound working (I am considering buying a sound card)but I have other priorities for the moment. Thanks |
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