I believe it is the onboard ac97 chipset, I'm not sure why that is showing and not your cmedia one. My advice to you is to disable your on-board chipset (through bios or onboard jumpers, whichever is present) and buy a sound blaster or some other compatable card. They are usually pretty cheap (as are the onboard ones!)
Have you used the onboard sound with windows or other os?

Thank you, , I have was about to brake my laptop in half over this problem. If I knew your name I would send you a christmas ham.
Thank you, Thank you, thank you.

hehehe no problem

I was having these same problems and after trying all that was suggested, I still could not get sound. The extra thing I had to do (on my thinkpad r51) was mute Headphone Jack Sense and Line Jack Sense in alsamixer. Perhaps someone will encounter that sometime as well.

Thanks for that, I have had a similar problem in the past where I get an almighty "hissing" sound; the remedy was to mute the digital input on the mixer for my ensonique (sound blaster) card.

I think my problem is worse than everyone elses, alsaconf doesn't even detect my soundcard. It is an onboard soundcard it has worked in Ubuntu (i recently switched to slackware 10.1). Here are the outputs that everyone else has given:

My sound card is in lspci but alsaconf won't pick it up. Any ideas?

I googled and found this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg01251.html
I hope it is of some help to you. Try googling a bit more, you'd be surprised at how technical google is.
Also, here is the official alsa docs in case that helps:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=via82xx

you have support for the card in the kernel?

Now I haven't tried all of the above solutions yet, but I was wondering if anyone else had perfectly working sound under 10.0, but no sound under 10.1. 'Cause that's what I'm having (after the initial install of both on the same computer), and it's pissing me off!

*mutters to self*

Mind you I don't need solutions. Just some fellow sufferers and maybe a "Yeah, that's because of x, y, and z" (preferably with x, y, and z filled in with insightful thoroughly researched Linux knowledge...).



xV

Hi, problems like this usually have nothing to do with the distribution, it is caused by a change in your kernel config if anything. The only programs which make a difference are the ones bundled with the alsa packages. You can remove all the alsa packages, recompile the kernel without all the alsa modules (must include sound support though), then download an compile the latest packages from alsa if you want to fully control the kernel modules and sound processing.

Oops, I had to edit this message to delete what I said because it somehow got posted in the wrong discussion, sorry!

Hi, Tutter
Please have a look of my lsmod, I cannot figure out why my sound card doesn't work.

Module Size Used by
i830 68388 2
ipv6 229892 10
af_packet 20872 2
rtc 12088 0
pcspkr 3816 0
parport_pc 33348 0
parport 37320 1 parport_pc
snd_intel8x0 33068 0
snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 85384 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer 23300 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4736 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 23204 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7944 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 50660 7 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
pci_hotplug 30640 0
intel_agp 20512 1
intel_mch_agp 10000 0
agpgart 31784 4 intel_agp,intel_mch_agp
ehci_hcd 27908 0
uhci_hcd 29328 0
usbcore 104164 4 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
i810_audio 33300 3
ac97_codec 16908 1 i810_audio
soundcore 9824 5 snd,i810_audio
e100 30080 0
mii 4864 1 e100
tsdev 7168 0
mousedev 9996 1
evdev 9088 0
capability 4872 0
commoncap 7168 1 capability
psmouse 17800 0
ide_cd 38176 0
cdrom 35740 1 ide_cd
ext3 109672 1
jbd 54552 1 ext3
ide_generic 1664 0
piix 12448 1
ide_disk 16768 3
ide_core 125028 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
sd_mod 20480 0
ata_piix 7812 0
libata 36228 1 ata_piix
scsi_mod 115148 2 sd_mod,libata
unix 26036 492
font 8576 0
vesafb 6688 0
cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3200 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3712 1 vesafb


I appreicate!

bluetwist: Try blacklisting "snd_ac97_codec" (add it to /etc/hotplug/blacklist).
If that doesn't fix it, blacklist the "i810_audio" and "ac97_codec" modules.
I think the i810_audio entry is for oss (old). All the snd_* entries are alsa modules.

I'm not certain that's right... I've just solved similar problems to those described in the above threads by
adding i810_audio to etc/modules (I'm running kubuntu, KDE and ALSA) after installing a new motherboard.

My tip: go to the ALSA Soundcard Matrix and find the kernel
module listed for the chipset on your soundcard / motherboard. Then add the name of the relevant module to
/etc/modules (or /etc/modules.conf, depending on your distro). You will need to ensure that the running kernel
is configured to allow the relevant module to be loaded as required. AFAIK, this is already the case in most kernels
for i810_audio.

This is right snd_* is the alsa ones.
U need to blacklist the oss ones to get alsa to work.
Theese needs to be blacklisted.
i810_audio
ac97_codec
U cant use both oss and alsa thats why u need to blacklist them.
Alsa got oss emulation so your oss dependent programs will still work. (i think it's in alsa-oss package)

This one shouldn't be blacklisted snd_ac97_codec
Sometimes this needs to be blacklisted snd-intel8x0m
But i don't see it getting loaded here.
Do this and unmute your card in alsamixer and i think it will work.