I got a new (old) machine, and I'm having problems getting the sound card working. The machine is a DELL Optiplex GX1, and the sound card is built into the mother board. I can't see anything on the motherboard that tells me what kind of sound card is there. I can't even find anything about the motherboard other than it's Dell. There are messages in my system log: Dec 15 22:21:31 newguy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Dec 15 22:21:31 newguy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 I get these messages at boot and whenever I put a music CD in the drive. Any ideas? TIA, Bill
Any ideas?
Yup, try "lspci" and see if the sound chip is hard wired to the PCI bus on your motherboard. If so, it'll show up when you type "lspci". At least that's how it works on my motherboard. My example (partial lspci output for my sound chip): 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06) Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
Andy, It doesn't look like lspci finds it: bcurran_newguy> lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21) 00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) Maybe I should just buy a new card? Bill On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Andy Stewart wrote:
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:20:26 -0500 From: Andy Stewart <andystewart@mediaone.net> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] sound module?
Any ideas?
Yup, try "lspci" and see if the sound chip is hard wired to the PCI bus on your motherboard. If so, it'll show up when you type "lspci". At least that's how it works on my motherboard.
My example (partial lspci output for my sound chip): 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
Later,
Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:20:10PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I got a new (old) machine, and I'm having problems getting the sound card working. The machine is a DELL Optiplex GX1, and the sound card is built into the mother board. I can't see anything on the motherboard that tells me what kind of sound card is there. I can't even find anything about the motherboard other than it's Dell.
I did a quick Google search and found this: http://www.alsa-project.org/archive/alsa-user/msg05819.html It requires the ALSA driver along with isapnp. Hope this helps. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS : Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux : Are you coming or what? - June 2000 issue of Linux Journal
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