NO SOUND on ASUS W2V!!!
 

Hi guys,

i've been on mandrake for one year or so on intel desktop platforms with "almost" no trouble. Actually I'm very happy with memory performances and stability.

Nevertheless, I'm really having a sound issue on my Asus W2V (915PM chipset) laptop runing on mandriva 2005LE. I don't have any sound AT ALL.

I've checked the kmix, alsamix volumes are not on mute.

The alsaconf detects the sound card:
hda-intel 00: 1b.0 Class0403: Intel Corp 82801FB/FBM/FR/FRW
then it configures the snd-hda-intel driver
However I still nave no sound

The problem seem to be the sound driver. When I run the the soundcard configure tool, in the hardware section, on the drak control center I get the following error message:
the "snd-hda-intel" driver for your sound card is unlisted.

I have no idea what to do?

thanks for the help!!!!

Lambstar

here is the lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5652
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
03:01.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
03:02.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA713X Audio+video broadcast decoder (rev d1)
03:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
03:03.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
03:03.2 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0822 (rev 17)
03:03.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
03:03.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0852 (rev 03)

I seen a few instances where Mandrake and Red Hat simply don't have working sound when it comes to the newer ASUS motherboards. In fact, I have that problem myself. My plan is to get a different (and newer) linux distribution (probably Xandros).

You mean it doesn't work at all?
That's the worst news i could get. buil-in sub woofer and 30Gb of music....
Someone told me Ubumtu might work too.

If you ever find a solution, please mail it!

cheers

http://www.linux-tested.com/results/asus_k8v-x.html shows the results for Red Hat 9 with the Asus K8V-X motherboard (the one that I have; yours is not listed). For audio, it says: "Audio chipset not supported in Linux and no drivers available." Roughly speaking that translates to the hardware manufacturers not supporting linux like they should. They write plenty of software drivers for windows, it would only seem fair to do the same for linux.

I see 2 possible solutions for you:

(1) disable the built-in sound on your motherboard and use an add-on sound card that is supported by the linux you have.

(2) get a newer linux distribution that can use the built-in sound card on your motherboard. When looking for your new linux distribution, you might want to go to http://www.linux-tested.com to verify that your new distribution will work with the sound card on your motherboard.