Sound card not working in Fedora Core 3

[Kunal Shah]

Still struggling with sound card.

I have already installed new version of the driver, 1.0.8 but still not
able to get the sound card work.

also documentation site and bug list site on alsa is not working
properly, i get some php error.

I am not sure if my lspci list is posted to the mailing list so sending
it once again. Please help.

Most important thing baffling me is, which sound card i am using. as i
mentioned in windows it shows soundmax ( please see my first post ) and
linux identifies it as intel ac97. If i got to ALSA site, which should i
select? intel ->proper chip set ? because i dont see soundmax in the
list at ALSA site.

Thanks

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to
I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV
Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated
Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics
Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev
03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97
Modem Controller (rev 03)
02:07.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a9)
02:07.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a9)
02:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
(rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:09.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 19:44 -0500, Kunal Shah wrote:
> Thanks all for replying.
> 
> I will check the ALSA. Meanwhile here is the output from my lspci
> command. Attached as txt file.
>  
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:55 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> > Kunal Shah wrote:
> > 
> > >I know this problem has been discussed n number of times here. I have
> > >been googling for this but could not find proper resolution.
> > >
> > >It seems that i have two problems and solving them can cause other
> > >problems as i have see earlier too.
> > >
> > >Prob 1. 
> > >I am using Gateway 4535Gz laptop and in the configuration document it
> > >shows that i have
> > >Analog Devices SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
> > >
> > >(I have downloaded chip identification util from intel site and i can
> > >give you exact chip number for the same if you need to assist me.)
> > >
> > >but in linux when i do sound configuration from GNOME it detects that i
> > >have intel ac97. I dont know how they are related.
> > >
> > >Prob 2. If the sound card detected by linux is accurate, still i dont
> > >have sound. I have gone through each and every documentation in alsa
> > >proj site and double checked all the mixer settings that nothing is
> > >mute.
> > >
> > >If i try to install new alsa driver ( alsa-driver rpm is not installed
> > >in fedora and its not available on fedora site. Only alsa packages
> > >installed on my system are alsa-lib and alsa-devel). it screws up the
> > >module information and next time when i do modprobe snd_intel8x0, it
> > >gives me tons of errors.
> > >
> > >Please let me know if any one can help me in what is going on.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Addition information about system
> > >
> > >[kunalshah at laptop ~]$ rpm -qa | grep alsa
> > >alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
> > >alsa-lib-1.0.6-7.FC3
> > >alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-7.FC3
> > >[kunalshah at laptop ~]$ uname -r
> > >2.6.10-1.760_FC3
> > >[kunalshah at laptop ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> > >Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
> > >[kunalshah at laptop ~]$ sudo su -
> > >[root at laptop ~]# modinfo soundcore
> > >filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.760_FC3/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
> > >description:    Core sound module
> > >author:         Alan Cox
> > >license:        GPL
> > >alias:          char-major-14-*
> > >vermagic:       2.6.10-1.760_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
> > >depends:
> > >srcversion:     4CCBC38AF44D1461882C573
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Kunal
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > Ok, Fedora uses the drivers provided by the version of ALSA merged into 
> > the kernel, at this point only ALSA 1.0.6 has been merged into 
> > kernel-code. This is an outdated version of ALSA, the current version is 
> > 1.0.8. That is why you don't see an ALSA-kernel-module package in the 
> > fedora downlaods, becuase it is already into the kernel package. Only 
> > -utils and -lib are really necesary as separate packages... I'd really 
> > recommend you checking for an updated version of ALSA and if you can, 
> > search the archives of the alsa-user mailing list, there are some nice 
> > tips in there for these sound cards (plus the installation instructions 
> > at the alsa-prject site).
> >