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jnev 04-25-2005 11:18 PM
another sound thread...
 
i've looked through tons of threads onm this forum (none helped), searched google, asked on many message boards, and none of them could help me. i have kubuntu hoary 5.04 installed on my desktop (in my sig), and i cannot for the life of my get my onboard sound working. no command i know of (alsaconf , sndconfig, etc) works. when i got to run > alsamixer, nothing hapens. when i type alsamixer into konsole it gives me

Code:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
PLEASE HELP ME, i'm desperate. i have a few other problems that i may ask later, but this is my main one.


thanks for any and all help

ilikejam 04-25-2005 11:37 PM
Hi.

Could you post the output of 'lspci' as root?

Dave

jnev 04-25-2005 11:44 PM
Code:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 925X Memory Controller Hub (rev 0e)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 925X PCI Express Root Port (rev 0e)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d4)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0140 (rev a2)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:02:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

ilikejam 04-25-2005 11:54 PM
OK. Your sound card is supported.

Could you post the output from lsmod?

Dave

ilikejam 04-26-2005 12:02 AM
Also, what kernel version are you running? (uname -r)

Only the latest kernels have ALSA drivers which can handle your particular sound device:
Quote:
In particular the ICH5 and ICH6 versions of the Intel sound chips is supported only by ALSA versions 1.0.5 or later. In particular, the Linux 2.6 kernels up to version 2.6.8.1 inclusive don't support them because they only have ALSA versions up to 1.0.4; note also that there are very many variants of the ICH6 chipset (check include/linux/pci_ids.h in recent kernel sources), and up to 1.0.8 only the one with device id 8086:266e is recognized.
Dave

jnev 04-26-2005 12:20 AM
lsmod:

Code:
Module                  Size  Used by
tun                    8704  0
proc_intf              4100  0
freq_table              4100  0
cpufreq_userspace      4572  0
cpufreq_ondemand        6172  0
cpufreq_powersave      1920  0
video                  16260  0
sony_acpi              6280  0
pcc_acpi              11264  0
button                  6800  0
battery                10244  0
container              4608  0
ac                      4996  0
ipv6                  229504  9
af_packet              20744  2
usblp                  12032  0
ohci1394              31876  0
r8169                  17928  0
i2c_i801                8076  0
i2c_core              21264  1 i2c_i801
ahci                  10500  0
piix                    9988  1
hw_random              5524  0
usbhid                29376  0
ehci_hcd              29444  0
uhci_hcd              30224  0
usbcore              107384  5 usblp,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
shpchp                86116  0
pci_hotplug            30512  1 shpchp
floppy                54864  0
pcspkr                  3816  0
rtc                    12216  0
nls_cp437              5888  1
ntfs                  97136  1
md                    43856  0
dm_mod                53116  1
capability              5000  0
commoncap              7808  1 capability
nvidia              3923388  12
agpgart                31784  1 nvidia
sbp2                  22408  0
evdev                  9088  0
tsdev                  7488  0
ieee1394              100408  2 ohci1394,sbp2
psmouse                19336  0
mousedev              11160  1
parport_pc            34372  1
lp                    10792  0
parport                33480  2 parport_pc,lp
ide_generic            1664  0
ide_disk              18176  0
ide_cd                38532  0
ide_core              118988  4 piix,ide_generic,ide_disk,ide_cd
ext3                  120968  1
jbd                    54168  1 ext3
sr_mod                16036  0
cdrom                  36508  2 ide_cd,sr_mod
sd_mod                16784  5
ata_piix                8836  9
libata                44548  2 ahci,ata_piix
scsi_mod              119936  5 ahci,sbp2,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
unix                  26164  389
thermal                13576  0
processor              22708  1 thermal
fan                    4612  0
fbcon                  34048  0
font                    8448  1 fbcon
bitblit                5120  1 fbcon
vesafb                  6948  0
cfbcopyarea            3968  1 vesafb
cfbimgblt              3072  1 vesafb
cfbfillrect            3584  1 vesafb

uname -r :

Code:
2.6.10-5-386

ilikejam 04-26-2005 12:47 AM
The module for your sound card isn't loaded. Try the following as root:
Code:
modprobe snd-intel8x0
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
modprobe snd-seq-oss
Then try playing some audio.

Dave

Groovelab 04-26-2005 12:57 AM
Hey can you guys jump to my thread, I've wrote it clearly and given some initial data and I guarantee I've spent plenty of time researching...

Its the (Kubuntu ALSA thread).

Thanks, John

jnev 04-26-2005 08:17 AM
i did those modprobes, but sound still doesn't work. i put in an audio cd, and when i press 'play' on the cd player, the play button's graphic switches to 'pause' like it's playing, but then reverts back to the 'play' graphic almost immediately. also, i tried playing some songs from my windows partition with amarok, and when i pressed play nothing would happen.

btw, alsamixer still doesn't work.

ilikejam 04-26-2005 11:35 AM
You could try downloading the latest ALSA kernel modules from the ALSA site, or you could wait for the in-kernel ALSA version to catch up. It appears the intel8x0 module doesn't recognise your sound card as one it should handle. From what I've read, this is fixed in ALSA v.1.0.8

Dave

Groovelab 04-26-2005 01:26 PM
To the person with the Intel chipset, I know you're a newbie like me...

Using ALSA version 1.0.8 as Dave has suggested.

Try compiling ALSA against your sound card using the QUICK INSTALL method on their site, its suprisingly easily... Just make sure to run the commands as root "su -" as you know.

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=intel8x0

Get the driver Dave mentioned.
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...-1.0.8.tar.bz2

Make a directory to store the alsa source code in.

cd /usr/src
mkdir alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa
(copy your file you downloaded "alsa-driver-1.0.8.tar.bz2" to the directory /usr/src/alsa)

Now unzip and install the alsa-driver package

bunzip2 alsa-driver-1.0.8.tar.bz2
tar -xf alsa-driver-1.0.8.tar (or whatever it renames to after unzip)
cd alsa-driver-1.0.8 (or whatever directory it makes after un-tarring)
./configure --with-cards=intel8x0 --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install

Now unzip and install the alsa-lib package

cd ..
bunzip2 alsa-lib-xxx
tar -xf alsa-lib-xxx
cd alsa-lib-xxx
./configure;make;make install

Now unzip and install the alsa-utils package

cd ..
bunzip2 alsa-utils-xxx
tar -xf alsa-utils-xxx
cd alsa-utils-xxx
./configure;make;make install

Now insert the modules into the kernel.

modprobe snd-intel8x0;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

Thats from the site. I suggest you follow the link above and I'm a noob like you, but I had success this way.

John

jnev 04-26-2005 07:10 PM
where do i get the alsa-lib file?

jnev 04-26-2005 08:11 PM
never mind about my above question, i install the libs and utils and everything it said to, but when i did the ./configure thing it said to do, it stopped midway and gave me this error message:

Code:
configure: error: this packages requires a curses library
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
i did everything the way it told me to. i did the modprobe like you said and when i went to try alsamixer, it still gave me the same error message i got before (in the first post).

Groovelab 04-26-2005 08:42 PM
curses library.
 
goto synaptic or kynaptic...

Then hit CTRL-F, type in the keyword "curses"

Install libcurses4, and reinstall libcurses5 (this one should be installed by default).

Then run ./configure;make;make install.

I had the same error.

Now you actually have the "alsaconf" command which comes with alsa-utils, which although ubuntu/kubuntu has a default package is not included for some reason.

John

jnev 04-26-2005 09:39 PM
i did that, installed libcurses4 and reinstalled libcurses5, and i still have the same problem. also, alsaconf doesn't work, it says 'command not found'


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