I810 audio chipset and ALSA
 

I'm fighting to have my i810 audio chip working. I saw and read carefully some others threads about this problem. But fact is that sound worked yesterday, when i finished a fresh compil and install of alsa.

The only stuff i didn't did is to edit modules.conf. I loaded modules manually, and this worked.

This morning, sound doesn't work

# modprobe snd-intel8x0
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod snd-intel8x0 failed

I'm a bit lost... I don't undestand why it worked yesterday and not today. Moreover, alsa-project.org seems to be down at the moment (i have a DNS error)

Any help appreciated :)

It could be that you have also got the OSS drivers compiled in or loaded as modules. What does lsmod show?

Rus

That's true that some oss modules were loaded.
I removed them all

now i haves these modules loaded :

Module Size Used by Not tainted
i810_audio 27720 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13640 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6404 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sis900 16812 1
ipt_REJECT 3928 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15096 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sg 36524 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12208 0
scsi_mod 107160 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35708 0
cdrom 33728 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394 20168 0 (unused)
ieee1394 48780 0 [ohci1394]
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 21480 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-ohci]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51892 2 [ext3]



and still
# modprobe snd-intel8x0
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/snd-intel8x0.o: insmod snd-intel8x0 failed

You need to get rid of the OSS drivers. To do this, go to your /etc/modules.conf and comment out the same lines I have at the bottom. Then you need to add the alsa and other non-commented sound lines if you havent already. I have the same card and heres how my /etc/modules.conf looks...

alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
options 3c501 irq=6
alias eth0 bcm4400
options bcm4400 irq=3
options ide-cd dma=0
#alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
#post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :

#Alsa Portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

#module options here
#option enable int array = 1
#option ac97_clock int array = 0

#OSS
#alias char-major-14 soundcore

# Save/restore mixer settings

post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#card #1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias char-major-195 nvidia