[SOLVED] Slackware 12 Intel 82801DB-ICH4 No Sound

ajitabhpandey · 08-24-2007, 02:34 PM

Hi,

I just finished installing Slackware 12 on my IBM R50e thinkpad. I am not getting any sound on it. If I try to play anything, it looks like its playing but I cant hear anything.

I have already unmuted the controls using alsamixer.
I have compiled 2.6.23 (linus-tree) with ALSA drivers
I have checked that the alsa-lib, alsa-oss, alsa-utils are already installed.

I installed Vector Linux 5.8 and it was able to play sound, Ubuntu was also fine and Sabyon was also fine. And I remember that originally when I installed Slackware 10.1/10.2 sound was working out of the box.

Is there something I am missing?

Following is the output from lsmod, lspci and aplay -l

Code:

sh-3.1$ /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)

sh-3.1$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Modem [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem], device 0: Intel ICH - Modem [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem - Modem]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

sh-3.1$ lsmod|grep snd
snd_intel8x0m          12396  0
snd_seq_dummy           2372  0
snd_seq_oss            25248  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5312  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                39344  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5644  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            33568  0
snd_mixer_oss          12288  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           25820  1
snd_ac97_codec         86272  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                1664  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                60264  4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              16164  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    38148  12 snd_intel8x0m,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               5344  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          6632  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Regards.
Ajitabh Pandey

willysr · 08-24-2007, 08:20 PM

have you ran

Code:

alsaconf

ajitabhpandey · 08-24-2007, 10:01 PM

Yes I have. It correctly identifies my sound card as

"Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97"

No effect.

ajitabhpandey · 08-28-2007, 11:50 AM

Ok so the issue was the mixer setting. I was trying to unmute all channels using alsamix program. This looks like it has a problem. I muted all channels and unmuted Master, Master M, Headphone, PCM and Mic.

This solved, the issue. After that I did not experiment with it further. Just to be on the safer side. So there might be some other safe channels to unmute.

nalsrayatko · 12-06-2007, 03:43 PM

Hi

I decided to migrate from Fedora 6 to Slackware 12. I installed it properly and I had problems with video card, wheel mouse at first. I fixed them easily, but I could not hear any sound, although I tried to fix it for more than 3 hours. I am using KDE 3.5 and my soundcard is an onboard one on the Asus P4PE-X motherboard.

I ran alsaconf, and it configured soundcard with no error. Then I unmuted all the thing by using both alsamixer and Kmix. Even that, I could not fix that damn sound problem.

* These are some outputs about my soundcard from alsaconf.

Code:

intel8x0 Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC' 97

snd-intel8x0

/etc/modprobe.d/sound
(/etc/modprobe.conf)

Card: Intel 82801DB-ICH4
Chip: Analog Devices AD1980

* Output of lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
appletalk              38316  0
ax25                   55632  0
ipx                    31524  0
p8023                   5632  1 ipx
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_seq_device         10508  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            42784  0
snd_mixer_oss          18048  1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6                  254496  10
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
sg                     30364  0
serio_raw               9220  0
nvidia               6215536  24
b44                    26764  0
mii                     8576  1 b44
bt878                  12728  0
bttv                  173620  1 bt878
video_buf              24068  1 bttv
ir_common              33796  1 bttv
compat_ioctl32          5248  1 bttv
btcx_risc               8072  1 bttv
tveeprom               17552  1 bttv
videodev               29184  1 bttv
v4l2_common            18688  2 bttv,videodev
v4l1_compat            17668  2 bttv,videodev
evdev                  11904  1
intel_agp              25116  1
iTCO_wdt               12964  0
shpchp                 33172  0
i2c_i801               11408  0
agpgart                31432  2 nvidia,intel_agp
iTCO_vendor_support     7172  1 iTCO_wdt
snd_intel8x0           32412  3
snd_ac97_codec         98980  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                6016  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                72068  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              22532  3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
ata_generic             9220  0
snd                    47204  13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9824  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         11528  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

* Output of aplay -l

Code:

yatko@localhost:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Finally, this is the information about Sound taken from KInfoCenter utility.

Code:

Sound Driver: 3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.14rc3 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux localhost 2.6.21.5-smp #2 SMP Tue Jun 19 14:58:11 CDT 2007 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10 : ALSA emulation

Card config:
Intel 82801 DB-ICH4 with AD1980 at irq20

Audio devices:
0: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7:system timer

Mixers:
0: Analog Devices AD1980

I don't know what to do, any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Yatko

Alien_Hominid · 12-12-2007, 02:30 AM

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Docum...figuration.txt

Quote:

Module snd-intel8x0:

buggy_semaphore - Enable workaround for hardwares with buggy semaphores (e.g. on some ASUS laptops) (default off)