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I am running SUSE 10.1 (KDE) but I cannot get sound to work. I have an EPoX EP-5LDA+GLI motherboard with Realtek ALC 880 onboard audio. I went to Realtek's site and downloaded drivers. I ran their install script which ended up running alsaconf after a bunch of compilation. This detected a card and tried to install. It didn't work. I ran it again and now it "cannot detect any PCI or PnP cards".

Trying to run alsamixer says "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device".

In YaST under Sound it says "Not configured 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller". I press edit to configure it and it says an error has occured, "The kernel modules snd-hda-intel for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters". I have no idea what else to do. :(

OpenGL screensavers have also stopped working. I am doubtful that it's related to trying to install this driver, but it was working before and I didn't mess with other drivers. Actually, I'm not sure they ever worked for this username, but they work under root still. My Firefox also seems to crash immediately when trying to open it (the window flashes but then disappears immediately) but after several tries it finally opens. Did I mess something up...?

Output of /sbin/lspci, if that helps at all...

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 81)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 81)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0391 (rev a1)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)

04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)

You have another tool (at least it was still in SuSE up to 9.3) called hwinfo. Try hwinfo --sound. It should tell you which module is needed.

Then do 'modinfo <modulename> to get info on that module. In particular, pay attention the the 'depends:' line, which will tell you of any module dependencies.

Then do lsmod to see if they are all loaded.

It doesn't seem to have any modules. I wasn't sure what "Module Alias" was so I tried modinfo on it, but it didn't find anything. I tried hwinfo --gfxcard and it told me which drivers it was using, so I am guessing it doesn't have any drivers?

hwinfo --sound

Code:

12: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device

  [Created at pci.300]

  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27d8

  Unique ID: u1Nb.MzKEoXumGPE

  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0

  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0

  Hardware Class: sound

  Model: "EPoX 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"

  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"

  Device: pci 0x27d8 "82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller"

  SubVendor: pci 0x1695 "EPoX Computer Co., Ltd."

  SubDevice: pci 0x4012

  Revision: 0x01

  Memory Range: 0xd0200000-0xd0203fff (rw,non-prefetchable)

  IRQ: 10 (no events)

  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027D8sv00001695sd00004012bc04sc03i00"

  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by

parport_pc            56680  0

parport                56716  1 parport_pc

joydev                27520  0

st                    55332  0

sr_mod                33060  0

xt_pkttype            18560  3

ipt_LOG                23168  8

xt_limit              19328  8

af_packet              55820  2

edd                    26760  0

button                24224  0

battery                27272  0

ac                    22152  0

ip6t_REJECT            22272  3

xt_tcpudp              19968  3

ipt_REJECT            22272  3

xt_state              18816  12

iptable_mangle        19584  0

iptable_nat            25220  0

ip_nat                35884  1 iptable_nat

iptable_filter        19712  1

ip6table_mangle        19072  0

ip_conntrack          75164  3 xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_nat

nfnetlink              23496  2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack

ip_tables              30792  3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter

ip6table_filter        19584  1

ip6_tables            32328  2 ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter

x_tables              31368  10 xt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ipt_REJECT,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables,ip6_tables

ipv6                  328736  19 ip6t_REJECT

apparmor              72352  0

aamatch_pcre          30720  1 apparmor

loop                  32528  0

dm_mod                77616  0

nvidia              5446996  12

usbhid                60832  0

hw_random              22440  0

sky2                  56192  0

ohci1394              49736  0

ide_cd                57248  0

intel_agp              41024  1

ehci_hcd              47624  0

cdrom                  52392  2 sr_mod,ide_cd

ieee1394              120312  1 ohci1394

i2c_i801              25876  0

i2c_core              40192  2 nvidia,i2c_i801

uhci_hcd              48544  0

usbcore              150312  4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

i8xx_tco              24616  0

reiserfs              241280  3

fan                    21896  0

sg                    52264  0

thermal                32272  0

processor              50280  1 thermal

ata_piix              28292  4

libata                91032  1 ata_piix

piix                  27652  0 [permanent]

sd_mod                34176  6

scsi_mod              163888  5 st,sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod

ide_disk              32896  0

ide_core              165764  3 ide_cd,piix,ide_disk