alsa snd_intel8x0 issue

[gyuriho]

I've installed alsa on a gentoo 2.6.16-r7 system. I have the onboard sound controller of an intel 845G chipset:
lspci:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
the loaded modules:
snd_intel8x0 26780 0
snd_pcm_oss 35232 0
snd_mixer_oss 14592 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 29824 0
snd_seq_device 6024 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_midi_event 5888 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 43440 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_ac97_codec 81184 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2176 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 69512 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 18436 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 43364 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss ,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
snd_page_alloc 8072 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

I-ve played a lot with alsamixer, alsaconf, and still has no sound. This is screwing up my third day! I want some music with Linux!
kde is silent; cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp does nothing.
Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks

[antidrugue]

I don't have a solution for this, but same thread here:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gen...sound-all.html

[fransman]

Or just checkout this topic ... it's about the intel8x0
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gam...rds-found.html

[antidrugue]

Very good&clear instructions there, "fransman".

I think that should work very well.

[gyuriho]

still no solution. I think I'm gonna buy a sound card. ...not with Intel chip.
It's not that I have something against Intel, but I cannot find any other solution.

[gyuriho]

modprobe snd-intel8x0 and modprobe snd_intel8x0 loads the same snd_intel8x0 module. In the alsa-driver folder in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/ there is no snd-intel8x0 module.

Here is a part of my modprobe.conf:
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

[antidrugue]

still no solution. I think I'm gonna buy a sound card. ...not with Intel chip.
It's not that I have something against Intel, but I cannot find any other solution.

Change distro perhaps?

I have the same "sound card" as you do and I never had an issue with it.
Try Arch Linux if you will, it's faguely Gentoo style, it's fast, optimized, and simple.

[fransman]

Post your cat and new lspci audio controller output ...

# sudo cat /proc/asound/cards
# sudo lspci -v

[fransman]

The same snd_intel8x0 module, maybe thas the way it goes in gentoo, but with a locate on snd-intel8x0 in Ubuntu i'll get.

name@deblnxsrv3:~$ locate snd-intel8x0
/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-powerpc/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0m.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-powerpc/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-22-powerpc/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0m.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-22-powerpc/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
name@deblnxsrv3:~$

[gyuriho]

Hi fransman!

on yous suggestion I digged deeper in the snd-intel issue, and I realized something strange:
Indeed, locate snd-intel8x0 gives:
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r7/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0
and after I rmmod snd_intel8x0, and tried a modprobe snd-intel8x0 with the full path:
modprobe /lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r7/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0
gives this:
FATAL: Module /lib/modules/2.6.16_gentoo_r7/kernel/sound/pci/snd_intel8x0.ko
not found.
so it tries to insert a snd_intel8x0 module
trying to locate the snd_intel8x0 module gives no result