can't find driver for sound card

[sebiskaa]

Hi,
I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M57p Tower (model 9088BVG ) that has an onboard SoundMax sound card (chipset AD1882) and I can't find a driver for linux anywhere for this sound card. Does anyone know where I can find such a driver?
Thanks.

[i92guboj]

Can you provide us with the output of "lspci"? Run it as root and paste the output here, please. That might help us to identify the concrete name of the chip and, hopefully, to find a working driver for it.

[sebiskaa]

Here is the output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b0 (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b2 (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b3 (rev 02)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b4 (rev 02)
00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b6 (rev 02)
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b7 (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 10bd (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2937 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2938 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2939 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 293c (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Unknown device 293e (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2934 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2935 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2936 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 293a (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2914 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2920 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2930 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2926 (rev 02)
11:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

As I said, the soundcard is manufactured by SoundMax and has an AD1882 chipset (Analog Devices). I looked on the manufacturer's site but I couldn't find any driver for linux whatsoever.

[i92guboj]

Here is the output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b0 (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b2 (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b3 (rev 02)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b4 (rev 02)
00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b6 (rev 02)
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b7 (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 10bd (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2937 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2938 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2939 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 293c (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Unknown device 293e (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2934 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2935 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2936 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 293a (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2914 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2920 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2930 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2926 (rev 02)
11:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

As I said, the soundcard is manufactured by SoundMax and has an AD1882 chipset (Analog Devices). I looked on the manufacturer's site but I couldn't find any driver for linux whatsoever.

Well, according to your lspci, the only sound device listed has an intel chip. There's builtin support in the linux kernel for some intel sound chips, you might need to compile your kernel with support for it, or maybe it's built as a module and you just need to modprobe it.

[sebiskaa]

What does modeprobing mean?
There is builtin support for some Analog Devices(AD1888...) chipsets but not this one in particular(AD1882). Does anyone know where can I find a driver for that or any other way to deal with this problem?
Thank you.

[i92guboj]

What does modeprobing mean?
There is builtin support for some Analog Devices(AD1888...) chipsets but not this one in particular(AD1882). Does anyone know where can I find a driver for that or any other way to deal with this problem?
Thank you.

modprobe a command that you can use as root to load a kernel module. Try:

modprobe snd-intel8x0

As root user. Or if in ubuntu, try

sudo modprobe snd-intel8x0

Right after that, observe if there's any error reported, also look at the output of the dmesg command. If the driver loaded correctly it should spit something at the end of that output, telling you if the driver has been correctly initialized or not.

I really don't see anything resembling those numbers and manufacturer that you mention. As I already said, the only audio device listed has an intel chip, regardless of what the vendor has told you.

[sebiskaa]

I'm using SUSE 10.2. I tried using "modprobe snd-intel8x0" but nothing happens. I also checked the output of dmesg but there's nothing at the end regarding drivers for sound card.The audio files still won't play.
This is my computer:
http://www5.pc.ibm.com/europe/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_VVCBVxx?OpenDocument
This is how Windows Vista sees my card: "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD". This is all the information I have regarding my sound card, so I don't think it's Intel.
Any other suggestions how to make this work?

[sebiskaa]

I'm using SUSE 10.2. I tried using "modprobe snd-intel8x0" but nothing happens. I also checked the output of dmesg but there's nothing at the end regarding drivers for sound card.The audio files still won't play.
This is my computer:
http://www5.pc.ibm.com/europe/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_VVCBVxx?OpenDocument
This is how Windows Vista sees my card: "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD". This is all the information I have regarding my sound card, so I don't think it's Intel.
Any other suggestions how to make this work?

[i92guboj]

I'm using SUSE 10.2. I tried using "modprobe snd-intel8x0" but nothing happens. I also checked the output of dmesg but there's nothing at the end regarding drivers for sound card.The audio files still won't play.
This is my computer:
http://www5.pc.ibm.com/europe/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_VVCBVxx?OpenDocument
This is how Windows Vista sees my card: "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD". This is all the information I have regarding my sound card, so I don't think it's Intel.
Any other suggestions how to make this work?

That's really strange. lspci usually does not lie.

However, can you try to run alsamixer on a terminal?

Maybe your problem is just that it's muted. If the module couldn't be loaded, it should have spit an error message... That makes me think that its loaded, maybe it even was loaded on first instance.

So, a possibility is that your master and/or pcm channels in the mixer are either muted or zeroed. If alsamixer loads ok, then the driver is correctly loaded, if there's no sound driver loaded, alsamixer would fail to open.

[sebiskaa]

That's really strange. lspci usually does not lie.

However, can you try to run alsamixer on a terminal?

Maybe your problem is just that it's muted. If the module couldn't be loaded, it should have spit an error message... That makes me think that its loaded, maybe it even was loaded on first instance.

So, a possibility is that your master and/or pcm channels in the mixer are either muted or zeroed. If alsamixer loads ok, then the driver is correctly loaded, if there's no sound driver loaded, alsamixer would fail to open.

First of all, thanks for your help.
I tried running alsamixer in a terminal and I get the message "function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device". Also, when I boot up the system I get an error message from Amarok: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers." so I don't think any module is loaded, I think it simply needs drivers to work but I don't know where to find them.
Any other ideas?