On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Keller, Tim wrote:

So,

Generally, I don't ask for help in these matters, I just grind it out and figure out the problem, but I'm just stuck.

I've got this nice shiny new dell here and everything works great, duel monitors, USB, gigE, the works, except for the sound.

Looking in /proc/pci I see it shows the audio card as...

"Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 2)."

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...)

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...

I have the same card on my GX260s at work, and they worked on the first try using the i810_audio driver with OSS. I haven't tried ALSA, as the Mandrake 9.2 install used OSS by default for this card, and that's what I'll be sticking with for a while. Brian J. Conway bconway(at)alum.wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992

Along the same lines as plugging it in... Open a mixer and make sure the channels are un-muted. What's the sound section of your modules.conf look like? Greg Avedissian Keller, Tim wrote:

So,

Generally, I don't ask for help in these matters, I just grind it out and figure out the problem, but I'm just stuck.

I've got this nice shiny new dell here and everything works great, duel monitors, USB, gigE, the works, except for the sound.

Looking in /proc/pci I see it shows the audio card as...

"Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 2)."

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...)

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...

Thanks, Tim.

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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, ...)