FC6 audio works intermittently on HP Pavilion zv6000
 

Hello all,

Got another noob question I guess... I've a HP Pavilion and sometimes the sound card doesn't work. When it doesn't work, usually rebooting a few times gets the card working again. It's a dual boot system with XP and audio works every time in Windows so I know the hardware is ok. In checking the configuration (System|Administration|Soundcard Detection) I see two devices:

Vendor: ATI
Model: Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller
Module: snd-atiixp

Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Model: ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller
Module: snd-atiixp-modem


I've got a funny feeling the Modem Controller configuration might be incorrect. Should I remove it and if so would I use modprobe to do that?

Also I seem to have ALSA and OSS installed together and I heard they both shouldn't be on the same system. Which one should I remove and how (I can't seem to find an OSS package on the system)?

Below is the sorted output from lsmod-----
[ron@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | sort
8139cp 60609 0
8139too 63553 0
ac 39113 0
arc4 35265 2
asus_acpi 51941 0
autofs4 58441 2
battery 44489 0
bcm43xx 469825 0
bluetooth 124613 8 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
button 41057 0
cdrom 70377 1 ide_cd
cpufreq_ondemand 40913 1
dm_mirror 64449 0
dm_mod 99473 13 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
dm_multipath 53713 0
dm_snapshot 50833 0
dm_zero 35393 0
edac_mc 60753 1 k8_edac
ehci_hcd 68301 0
ext3 178129 2
hci_usb 53213 2
hidp 84801 2
i2c_core 58177 1 i2c_ec
i2c_ec 38977 1 sbs
ide_cd 76257 3
ieee1394 401497 1 ohci1394
ieee80211 67081 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 40128 2 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211
ieee80211_crypt_tkip 44865 2
ieee80211softmac 69569 1 bcm43xx
ip6table_filter 36161 1
ip6_tables 50817 1 ip6table_filter
ip6t_REJECT 38977 1
ip_conntrack 95461 3 ip_conntrack_ftp,ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
ip_conntrack_ftp 41873 0
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 36161 0
iptable_filter 36417 1
ip_tables 56481 1 iptable_filter
ipt_REJECT 38977 1
ipv6 427553 17 ip6t_REJECT
jbd 100273 1 ext3
joydev 44609 0
k8_edac 50305 0
l2cap 91841 10 hidp,rfcomm
lp 48529 0
michael_mic 35777 2
mii 39233 2 8139too,8139cp
mmc_core 63169 1 sdhci
Module Size Used by
nfnetlink 41225 1 ip_conntrack
nls_utf8 35265 1
ohci1394 70297 0
ohci_hcd 56541 0
parport 77133 2 parport_pc,lp
parport_pc 64233 0
pcspkr 36673 0
rfcomm 109289 0
sbs 51473 0
sdhci 53593 0
serio_raw 41157 0
shpchp 73609 0
snd 101737 17 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_usb_aud io,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_ac97_bus 35905 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_ac97_codec 143769 2 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem
snd_atiixp 56413 0
snd_atiixp_modem 51789 0
snd_hwdep 44489 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_mixer_oss 51649 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 44113 3 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_pcm
snd_pcm 125129 5 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio
snd_pcm_oss 81761 0
snd_rawmidi 62401 1 snd_usb_lib
snd_seq 96609 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 42581 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_dummy 37317 0
snd_seq_midi_event 41921 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_oss 69953 0
snd_timer 59849 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_usb_audio 123329 2
snd_usb_lib 52673 1 snd_usb_audio
soundcore 44769 1 snd
sunrpc 211465 1
uhci_hcd 59865 0
video 53065 0
x_tables 52041 6 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ip6_tables
xt_state 35521 12
xt_tcpudp 36673 39
[ron@localhost ~]$

Here's also the output of lspci:

[ron@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
03:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
03:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
03:04.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller
03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
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