[alsa-devel] Intel ICH Modem init fails for laptop built-in SiS modem

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:45:31 +0000,
Richard Kennedy wrote:
> 
> My JVC mininote laptop has an inbuilt SiS modem
> 
> 00:01.6 Modem [0703]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller [1039:7013] (rev a0)
> 
> which is detected by the snd-intel8x0m driver but it always fails to
> initialise and spams the log file :- 
> 
> kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x1300]
> kernel:last message repeated 2 times
> kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300]
> kernel:last message repeated 431 times
> kernel: AC'97 1 does not respond - RESET
> kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300]
> kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300]
> kernel: AC'97 1 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
> kernel: Unable to initialize codec #1
> kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:01.6 disabled
> kernel: Intel ICH Modem: probe of 0000:00:01.6 failed with error -5
> 
> I never use the modem so I blacklisted the snd-intel8x0m module in
> modprobe.conf just to make the messages go away.
> 
> I'm currently running the fedora 2.6.23 kernel but it has been broken
> for a long time.
> 
> Is this fixable?
> or shall I just go on ignoring it ;) ?

The latter unless you really need the support of it ;)
We have no datasheet for this SIS chipset, so it's hard to fix,
unfortuantely.


Takashi