Hi there

I am a linux beginner and I need your help getting my sound card to work properly. I have STFW and I found out i need to run Alsaconf from the root, but when I do that I get a error saying:

bash: alsaconfig: command not found

I use Mandrake Linux 9.1.

Also when I go to Configuration>KDE>information and when I select sound I get a message that says No information about sound-card!

What should I do?

Superganja23

LoL;

Once again I figured out how to fix a problem again.

All I had to do was compile the latest alsa driver

Edit*

Spoke to soon, It seems that I still can't get any sound on the Flash player How can I do that?

Also seems that my sound card isn't getting detected still!

Guess i still need your help

Superganja23

Hi, do you have any idea what kind of sound card is installed ?

Can you paste output of dmesg :

You can also try another distro that probably will detect it for you ( damnsmalllinux is a live distro that can detect your configuration when mdk cannot ).

Give more information.

Here is what I get when I type dmsg:

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f800000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
248MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 63488
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 59392 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=306 devfs=mount acpi=off quiet
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 896.831 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1789.13 BogoMIPS
Memory: 247732k/253952k available (1410k kernel code, 5832k reserved, 1118k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... 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 896.8486 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 199.2996 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1992996, slice: 996498
CPU0<T0:1992992,T1:996480,D:14,S:996498,C:1992996>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
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 SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
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 version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xd0000000, size 8192k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=7
vesafb: protected mode interface info at cbbd:0000
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 25593 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:01.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:01.1
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:00.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS730 ATA 100 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 2R015H1, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: CD-ROM 50X L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 29297520 sectors (15000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1823/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 108k 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: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:01.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 00:01.2
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0932000, IRQ 12
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.3, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:01.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 00:01.3
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0934000, IRQ 12
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,8), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:01.6
eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xcc00, IRQ 5, 00:d0:09:b1:42:c0.
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451,Tvia CyberPro 5050 PCI Audio, version 0.14.10h, 15:30:19 Mar 14 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:01.4
trident: SiS 7018 PCI Audio found at IO 0xd000, IRQ 11
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALC38 (Unknown)
ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: SIL33 (Unknown)
hdc: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Splash status on console 0 changed to off
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.


I have a onboard sound card. The manufactuer is SiS. That's all I know. If thare are any other Problems please tell me.

Thank you very much!

Superganja23

Your sound card is detected

trident: SiS 7018 PCI Audio found at IO 0xd000, IRQ 11
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALC38 (Unknown)
ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: SIL33 (Unknown)

Look at your speakers first, turn sound up at 100 % ( using kmix for instance ), are your speakers pluged on the right device ??

Also, have you sound when Root ??

Sound at root? What is that?

Here is another thing.

Whenever I go to Mandrake control center and select HardDrak, it always says ALSA is not running. Then when I click start it does not start up! I selected the box the says start on boot and when I rebooted my computer the setting go restored to the defaults!

I also tried change to driver to another one and it worked! but then when I come back on today the sound card does not work anymore!!!!


For the love of God PLEASE help me!

Superganja23

Yeah, I have the same onboard card that you have Super and it always gets recognized no matter what distro I've used. I'm running Slack 9.1 and it works okay. I had to make sure that the sound was turned up everywhere though. Use the command 'alsamixer' to turn up the main sound and then use the GUI sound volume to turn up the sound as well.

I am having a sound problem with mine though. The when using XMMS the sound will become distorted. It also happens when I use mpg123 ( these are mp3 format ), however not as noticeable. I haven't found anyone with this same problem yet, but since this is the same card I posted it here.