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How do I get YMF740 sound card working in Slackware 12?

It was working yesterday. For some reason it just decided to work for a while, but then when I rebooted it's not working anymore. It wasn't working for a long time before, but I thought that's because it was reading my Audigy card or the onboard Intel HDA chip instead. Now I have disabled the onboard sound in BIOS and when I boot up the only card it should be able to find is the one I want to use: YMF740. Typing lspci I get:

06:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation DS1L Audio (rev 04)

so maybe it knows it exists. I've run alsaconf and it lists it there, too, and so I select it, and it lies and says it's all configured perfectly now and that it's unmuted the volumes (why does it have to unmute the volumes? That's stupid). So I type alsactl store just because I'm superstitious and don't know when that works and when it doesn't (since it doesn't print anything back in the console when it works), and it spits back:

alsactl: save_state:1253: No soundcards found...

And that's kind of what I get when I type alsamixer, too, see:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such deviceof

Now both alsactl store and alsamixer was working before I disabled the onboard Intel soundchip, except it was listing that (the Intel one), which is why I disabled it, thinking there was a conflict of having two soundcards read (apparently too much for linux to handle).

And I've read like 3 dozen or more forum threads looking for information about soundcards for Slackware and Ubuntu (had the same unresolved problem on Ubuntu, as seen here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/8724 ), but I just don't know what to do. It's annoying. Why doesn't it just work automatically like it does in Windows? Is it because Windows is better?

Yes.

But it was working yesterday! I swear. And I got all the cords plugged in right, and the Intel/HDA on-board sound DOES work, and for a time I did get the Audigy working, too (but that would also stop working sometimes after a reboot). I guess this is why Linux users brag about never having to reboot: because if they did they'd lose vital system components like their sound!

lol

No, seriously. Can anybody help me or have I lost all chance of getting help now with this negative attitude and these little remarks of mine?

Thanks, if anyone can/is willing to help... :-]

(I figure there must be a way to switch soundcards or tell Linux which is the default, so that's what it tries to load... now I'm thinking, though, that it's more like it doesn't have the drivers or something? I have tried modprobe... seems like I keep trying the same commands after reading thread after thread both here and all over the web.)

Can you post the output of lsmod? Have you tried blacklisting the modules for the cards you don't want to use?

Brian

One way to set a order for 2 audio cards is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/sound

Code:

alias snd-card-0 snd-ymfpci

alias sound-slot-0 snd-ymfpci

alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0

alias sound-slot-1 snd-intel8x0

options snd-ymfpci index=0

options snd-intel8x0 index=1

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Can you post the output of lsmod?

This is what I've got for lsmod:

Code:

bash-3.1$ lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

snd_seq_dummy          6788  0 

snd_seq_oss            32896  0 

snd_seq_midi_event    10112  1 snd_seq_oss

snd_seq                50640  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event

snd_pcm_oss            42784  0 

snd_mixer_oss          18048  1 snd_pcm_oss

ipv6                  254496  18 

e100                  35464  0 

mii                    8576  1 e100

pcmcia                34988  0 

pcmcia_core            36500  1 pcmcia

capability              7304  0 

commoncap              9344  1 capability

lp                    13736  0 

parport_pc            27812  1 

parport                34760  2 lp,parport_pc

pcspkr                  6528  0 

psmouse                39048  0 

snd_ymfpci            59584  0 

gameport              15112  1 snd_ymfpci

snd_ac97_codec        98980  1 snd_ymfpci

ac97_bus                6016  1 snd_ac97_codec

snd_pcm                72068  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_codec

snd_opl3_lib          12288  1 snd_ymfpci

snd_timer              22532  4 snd_seq,snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib

snd_hwdep              10628  1 snd_opl3_lib

snd_page_alloc        11528  2 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm

snd_mpu401_uart        10496  1 snd_ymfpci

snd_rawmidi            22560  1 snd_mpu401_uart

snd_seq_device        10508  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,s                                              nd_rawmidi

snd                    47204  13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,s                                              nd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uar                                              t,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

nvidia              7243924  24 

soundcore              9824  1 snd

iTCO_wdt              12964  0 

iTCO_vendor_support    7172  1 iTCO_wdt

shpchp                33172  0 

pata_cmd64x            10892  0 

sg                    30364  0 

i2c_i801              11408  0 

serio_raw              9220  0 

ata_generic            9220  0 

evdev                  11904  1 

joydev                12096  0 

intel_agp              25116  1 

agpgart                31432  2 nvidia,intel_agp

Quote:

Have you tried blacklisting the modules for the cards you don't want to use?

No, although should I need to do that when the on-board card is disabled and I only have one card inserted?

Quote:

One way to set a order for 2 audio cards is to edit /etc/modprobe.d/sound

OK, it already had the "alias" parts, but I added the "options" line. Not going to list the Intel HDA ones unless I need to.

Am I supposed to edit a file so that it lists this soundcard, or should I recompile the kernel with the soundcard included? (I remember reading something about compiling it with the kernel or as a module). Do I need to download a driver?

Thanks for the help so far. I appreciate it.

- matthew

Code:

bash-3.1# pwd

/usr/share/alsa/cards

bash-3.1# ls

AACI.conf          CMI8338.conf      ICE1724.conf    TRID4DWAVENX.conf

ATIIXP-MODEM.conf  CMI8738-MC6.conf  ICH-MODEM.conf  USB-Audio.conf

ATIIXP-SPDMA.conf  CMI8738-MC8.conf  ICH.conf        VIA686A.conf

ATIIXP.conf        CS46xx.conf      ICH4.conf        VIA8233.conf

AU8810.conf        EMU10K1.conf      Maestro3.conf    VIA8233A.conf

AU8820.conf        EMU10K1X.conf    NFORCE.conf      VIA8237.conf

AU8830.conf        ENS1370.conf      PC-Speaker.conf  VX222.conf

Audigy.conf        ENS1371.conf      PMac.conf        VXPocket.conf

Audigy2.conf        ES1968.conf      PMacToonie.conf  VXPocket440.conf

Aureon51.conf      FM801.conf        RME9636.conf    YMF744.conf

Aureon71.conf      GUS.conf          RME9652.conf    aliases.alisp

CA0106.conf        HDA-Intel.conf    SI7018          aliases.conf

CMI8338-SWIEC.conf  ICE1712.conf      SI7018.conf

It has a .conf file for YMF744, which I guess came with Slackware or Alsa. So I would think it would be able to use it. Hmm..