On Monday 16 June 2008 20:27, stan wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
I've just built a new machine, and expected problems with the onboard soundcard, and also have problems with the onboard NIC, but that's another problem, which is resolved by installing my last remaining realtek 8139 PCI card.
Is the sound device enabled in BIOS? And I'm surprised that your NIC isn't working. Those are almost generic these days.
Hi Stan. I don't want to check the BIOS at the mo, as I'm DL'ing a load of updates for F8 on this machine, but I'm pretty sure that the sounds are enabled. I wil check this though.
I googled a bit for the NIC problem with the MCP61 chipset, and did see someones lspci listing Ethernet against a MCP61 entry, but I have no such entry. Anyway, a possible fix for the sounds would be nice.
Anyway the mobo is an Asus M2N-X Plus NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430, and the Southbridge (which appears to handle allsorts of stuff) is MCP61.
the specs for the soundcard from the Asus site are below. ALC662 6-Channel High Definition Audio Azalia CODEC Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming S/PDIF out on back I/O port
Did a search in the driver source and the azalia is mentioned in the hda-intel.c module. Using hg snapshot of 20080520.
This is using the Fedora 8 distro, which has alsa driver 1.0.15, and is probably a bit old.
Yeah, probably a good idea to upgrade this. Did you notice that jaroslav had just posted the 1.0.17rc2 link?
Yes I saw that. When the updates for F8 have finished, I'll DL, and install the latest driver
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17rc1_v1.0.17rc2
The card is not detected at bootup, but I did a modprobe snd-hda-intel, using various model options. the modules were loaded, but a cat /proc/asound/cards showed "no soundcards detected"
If you do a search in the dmesg output for intel or hda or snd or alsa or azalia does anything turn up?
Don't get anything from any of them, just returned to the command prompt
I don't want to waste too much time on this onboard card, and will probably buy a cheap well supported card, just to get some sounds on this new machine. All the same I've run the alsa-info.sh script, and the link is below.
The modules showing here are not from bootup, but are manually installed?
Yes. lsmod had no alsa stuff loaded after bootup. I modprobed snd-hda-intel, and the alsa modules were loaded, but cat /proc/asound/cards showed "no soundcards"
Any comments, as always welcome.
Btw: My other machines use Audigy2 soundblaster (emu10k1) on the first machine, and Ensoniq (ens1371) on the other machine, and no problems with these cards at all. I cannot repeat my opinions/thoughts about hda-intel cards.
Thanks for all your work you folks.
Nigel. _______________________________________________