Tried something to get sound working, but did not work

jtsai256 · 09-30-2003, 12:17 AM

Hello,
In my never ending quest for sound on my Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504 (running Knoppix 3.3) I tried ALSA at boot up (after trying ACPI). This, however, still did not work and gave me the following message:

PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pinB of device 00:1f.5. Please try using pci=biosirq
ALSA ../alsa -kernel/pci/intel8x0.c:2253: unable to grab IRQ 0
Intel ICH Soundcard not found or device busy

I then tried typing pci=biosirq at bootup but that just froze my comp. Any suggestions? Thanks.

lugoteehalt · 09-30-2003, 06:02 AM

This is a bit simple minded but I have had a problem with a sound card which just fixed by simple method.

Used sndconfig and it fixed it immediately - though takes several minuits to examine the card and it is easy to think it has hung.

Sound cards complex so easiest to try 'control centre' then linuxconf then sndconfig. Bit unlucky if none of them work.

Try dissabling sound BIOS. Perhaps change card's slot??

KenCo · 09-30-2003, 10:29 AM

umm, thats Greek to me lol

where do you find/use sndconfig ????

I day user here ;p

vasudevadas · 09-30-2003, 03:36 PM

Type sndconfig at the command line prompt, when logged in as root. If it says "command not found" then you'll have to search for the appropriate rpm (should have sndconfig in the filename) and install it.

jtsai256 · 10-01-2003, 02:53 PM

I tried sound config but the program says that my sound card is not supported (Intel 820 integrated or something like that) Am I just out of luck? Thanks for your help everybody.

By the way, since sound works on SuSE 8.2 live eval, is there any way I can patch knoppix to use what SuSE uses?

lugoteehalt · 10-02-2003, 05:28 AM

Again a bit simple minded but have you tried doing:

cat <large file> > /dev/dsp (think its dsp - the name of the sound device.)

This should produce a loud hiss from the speakers.

If nothing happens try it again but as root.

If it says something like permision denied or device doesn't exist or something you begin to know what is wrong.

Reason I put this is happened to me yesterday.