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andypag 12-30-2011 10:10 AM
Alsa and STAC9750
 
This problem must have been solved many times before. Ive found some links about it, but none that make sense or that work for this newby.

Iḿ getting no sound out of my machine which has a
Card: Intel 82801DB-ICH4
Chip: SigmaTel STAC9750,51

Iḿ using the latest xubuntu, but the problem has been the same on Ubunut, Lubuntu, Puppy and the other distros ive tried.

I think my sound card is not supported by alsamixer
(Yes, Ive truned all the levels up full)
But there is a way of configuring it? or using another driver?

Here is what my alsabase.conf file has to say for itself.

# autoloader aliases
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7

# Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-ioctl32 ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }
#
# Workaround at bug #499695 (reverted in Ubuntu see LP #319505)
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
install snd-mixer /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
install snd-seq /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-oss ; : ; }
#
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# Cause optional modules to be loaded above sound card driver modules
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-emu10k1-synth ; }
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq ; }

# Load saa7134-alsa instead of saa7134 (which gets dragged in by it anyway)
install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist saa7134-alsa ; : ; }
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
options bt87x index=-2
options cx88_alsa index=-2
options saa7134-alsa index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
options snd-usb-ua101 index=-2
options snd-usb-us122l index=-2
options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
# Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
# Keep snd-pcsp from being loaded as first soundcard
options snd-pcsp index=-2
# Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
options snd-usb-audio index=-2


and here is what lspci -v returns

andypag@Toughbook:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: intelfb, i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: i915

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
Memory at e0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=07, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: e0200000-e02fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 20000000-27ffffff
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]
Memory at 28000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8346
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
Memory at e0100c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at e0100800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Device 8338
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0m

02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 82)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Panasonic CF-Y5 laptop
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at e0202000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 20000000-23fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 2c000000-2ffff000
I/O window 0: 00003400-000034ff
I/O window 1: 00003800-000038ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket

02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 82)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Panasonic CF-Y5 laptop
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at e0203000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=04, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 24000000-27fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 30000000-33fff000
I/O window 0: 00003c00-00003cff
I/O window 1: 00001400-000014ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket

02:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at e0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
Kernel modules: ipw2200

02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Panasonic CF-Y5 laptop
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at e0201000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp



Iḿ getting no sound from the speakers, and really quiet sound from the headphone jack with some distros. With alsamixer levels cranked up full itś barely audible and distorted.

honeybadger 12-30-2011 02:41 PM
Had this problem once. Try to run 'aumixer'. This is typical *bubtu. They have multiple commands to do the same thing - and some of the things badly but that is just my opinion. I think this has something to do with these guys using pulseaudio.
Hope this helps.

andypag 12-30-2011 03:02 PM
andypag@Toughbook:~$ aumixer
No command 'aumixer' found, did you mean:
Command 'asmixer' from package 'asmixer' (universe)
Command 'amixer' from package 'alsa-utils' (main)
aumixer: command not found

Iḿ a newby, is there something else I have to do first?

(p.s. I thought the Honey Badger didnt give a shi1)

honeybadger 12-30-2011 03:18 PM
I found a webpage that might help you and it is https://help.ubuntu..com/community/userdocumentation that describes the problems that you are mentioning.
BTW why did you think I did not give a shi1.

honeybadger 12-30-2011 03:26 PM
try this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/userdocumentation
BTW why did you think I did not give a shi1.

andypag 12-31-2011 01:06 AM
I have a good friend whose nick name is the Honey Badger, and we always tease him because of this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg. Made me smile when I saw your login name.

Thanks for the links will try that next and report back

andypag 12-31-2011 01:09 AM
userdocumentation:
This page does not exist yet.

Not getting anything from that link.


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