No sound, using AC97 onboard sound

[panthrax]

I am using Slackware 9.1 and I have no sound. I have onboard AC97 audio, how do I get sound in linux? Thanks

[kriss]

what does "lspci | grep audio" tells you?

Good luck

[panthrax]

root@darkstar:~# lspci | grep audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)

That is what it tells me.

[kriss]

try to "modprobe i810_audio" as root and test if you can get sound with "yes linuxforums > /dev/dsp". You cancel it with ctrl-C in the terminal you started it in.

Good luck

[Runey]

Hi Kriss,

I'm a newbie to Linux and am having trouble getting my AC97 card working. There seems to be a lot of help out there inregards to ALSA an OSS driver, though nothing that I can do.

After following your instructions above for the lspci command i get the same as panthrax.

When I try to do the modprove command i get the following error:

/lib/modules/2.4.24-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.24-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.24-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.24-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod i810_audio failed

I would really like to get my sound working. Any help you could give me would be great.

Thanks

[variant]

do "modprobe ac97" and "lsmod" also run "aumix" or amix or kmix or some other mixer to make sure the audio channels are not muted!

[buttrot]

hello,
I am having same problem.When i do lsmod it says module ac97 used by 0.how do i get it to use the module?i tried modprobe ac97 and got nuthin.(first week with linux)

[buttrot]

OK i got sound working.i went to OSS website and downloaded OSS driver.