During the instillation of Mandrake 9.2, I had to bypass the instillation of some of my hardware because the installation would freeze when Linux would try to install my firewire... Now, I have no sound.

I am a complete, and I mean COMPLETE!.. Linux n00b, so any help on how I can go about installing my sound card would be appreciated!

Is your hardware detected ... what is it ???

use command line: dmesg ( copy and paste here result )

The more information is given, the best we can help you

Wow. This is going to be a lot of text!


[brian@localhost brian]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22-10mdk (nplanel@no.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)) #1 Thu Sep 18 12:30:58 CEST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001bf70000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf70000 - 000000001bf7c000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf7c000 - 000000001bf80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf80000 - 000000001c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000002bf80000 - 000000002c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
447MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 114544
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 110448 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6ad0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1bf752a8
ACPI: FADT (v001 ATI Salmon 0x06040000 ATI 0x000f4240) @ 0x1bf7bf64
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1bf7bfd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 ATI MS2_1535 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: MADT not present
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2392.447 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4771.02 BogoMIPS
Memory: 449304k/458176k available (1508k kernel code, 8484k reserved, -1961k data, 156k init, 0k highmem, 0k BadRAM)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 07
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 2392.3683 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 132.9092 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1329092, slice: 664546
CPU0<T0:1329088,T1:664224,D:318,S:664546,C:1329092>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030813
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd89b, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.1
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:12.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0a.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
kinoded started
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xdc800000, size 1875k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=67
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:51c1
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... silenjpeg size 107888 bytes, found (800x600, 107840 bytes, v3).
Got silent jpeg.
Got silent jpeg.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 1024 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 00:08.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:08.0
Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of
lspci -vv, this message (10b9,5457,103c,0850)
and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board
to serial-pci-info@lists.sourceforge.net.
register_serial(): autoconfig failed
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:10.0
ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2040-0x2047, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2048-0x204f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
hda: IC25N040ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0180d20, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: DW-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 >
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Resume Machine: This is normal swap space
Swsusp 1.0.3: kswsuspd starting
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 301k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
Got silent jpeg.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TEAC Model: DW-224E Rev: A.0H
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,7), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
NTFS driver 2.1.4a [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
originally by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:12.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.2
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xdcac0000, 00:0b:cd:ab:80:74, IRQ 10.
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-10mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr0: mmc-3 profile capable, current profile: 0h
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
sr0: mmc-3 profile: 0h
sr0: mmc-3 profile: 0h
eth0: link up.
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 0 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 1 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 2 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 3 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 4 changed to on
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).
Splash status on console 5 changed to on
[brian@localhost brian]$

Hi,
your sound card seems to be not detected, any idea of what kind of sound card is in your box ?? ( sound card or sound chip ?? )

Have a look at mdk control center, and get all information concerning sound related device.

OK, looking at the KDE Control Panel, it's made by "Acer Technologies", a PCI sound card...

Sorry, I had to go back to Windows for something, and I can't leave and boot back to Mandrake right this second.

What I said earlier about the card was from memory from looking @ the KDE Control Panel earlier.

I should have the complete info in the morning, as I just looked at the clock and realized it is 3:15 in the morning.

Thanks for the help though, and I should have some more detailed information tomorrow!

~Brian

Version 9.2 didn't set up my PCI (?) sound card right, so that it made a scratchy sound instead of what was meant. I switched drivers and then switched back to the original after installing and that seemed to get the sound card info saved correctly.