On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:23:06AM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote:
"Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 2)."
What distribution and kernel version? 2.4 or 2.6? For 2.4, what does your /etc/modules.conf look like? For 2.6, what does your /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf.dist look like?
Now, it shows the card as being supported and it looks like ALSA is loading a gackle of drivers (and I checked and they've been unmuted...) yet no sound. (Yes, I did check to make sure I had the speakers plugged into the right jack...)
What application are you trying, a native ALSA-output one, or an OSS one? If the latter, do you have the OSS compatibility modules loaded? Try using gnome-alsaplayer or xmms-alsa for a native ALSA application. Does the application "work", i.e. show that sound is playing (graphical equalizier or VU meters moving)?
Has anybody had any experience getting this sound card to work? Note: It is integrated... I'll continue to probe the deep waters (i.e. Google) for answers...
Yes. All of our Dells have that sound card, and it works fine with ALSA using the snd-intel8x0 driver. Here is my 2.4 ALSA config: # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd #options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 #options snd-intel8x0 snd_ac97_clock=41231 # ALSA OSS/Free emulation support alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Run alsamixer and be sure that all channels are unmuted. Scroll the screen to the right with the arrow keys--you may have missed some channels off the right hand side of the screen, and they are not always named intuitively (Master, Master Mono, Headphone, PCM, Phone, ...)