Intel sound driver needed

[z-unit]

Hey guys,
I'm using intel desktop board D865GLC motherboard, it has an integraded sound card, my Linux kernel 2.4 doesn't have a driver for it, nor do the retailers, they all have drivers for Red Hat. Does anyone know where to get one?
Thanks.

[farslayer]

I have an Intel D865 PERL Motherboard so I'm going to venture a guess, that it has the same onboard sound as your system. <Intel ICH5 (82801EB)>

I recently re-installed my system using Debian unstable and the 2.6.12 kernel. the onboard sound works great now (it didn't work when I was running Debian unstable with the 2.4 kernel), Also make sure you have the latest version of ALSA installed.

If you do a lspci at the shell do you see a multimedia audio controller AC97 listed ?

if you do a lsmod do you see the following items listed ?

i810_audio
soundcore
AC97_codec
snd_intel8x0


somewher eto start at least..

Btw, what distro are you running ?


I was actually without souind for a couple days because I have a sound blaster card plugged into the system since the onboard audio wouoldn't work before.. took me 2 days to figure out I needed to move the speaker plug to the onboard audio jack now I just have to remember to pull the sound blaster card next time I shut down trhe system.

[z-unit]

When i run the command
"soundcardconfig"
it says a PCI sound card was found in your system. Details:
Model: Intel corp. | 82801EB AC'97 audio controller.

Dude, I don't have a PCI sound card, my sound card is integrated into the motherboard, but I believe it is the model.
when I run lsmod it lists:
i830
soundcore

those are the only two related to sound I guess. Others that you mentioned are not ont he list.
Can you gimme more telail on that?
Thank you much.

[infoseeker]

Same problem here
I have Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MK mobo (Intel 865G chipset)
Any help ?

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

# alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
Building card database...
modinfo: snd-opl3sa2: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-cs4236: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-cs4232: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-cs4231: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-es18xx: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-es1688: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-sb16: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd-sb8: no module by that name found

[Vergil83]

Same problem here
I have Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MK mobo (Intel 865G chipset)
Any help ?

did you

apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils

first?

[antidrugue]

Kernel 2.4 ?
Then you will need to install the "alsa-modules" for it.

For example, if you have the default 2.4 (which is 2.4.27.2) kernel, it will be:

apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-386

This is only a example. just do:

cat /proc/version

to know which kernel you have, and then install the proper alsa-modules for it.

Alsa is not part of the 2.4 kernel (contrary to kernel 2.6).

Unless you have a very low-end machine, you should go for a 2.6 kernel (then you won't need "alsa-modules").