F10 - No sound on my OQO

[Robert Moskowitz]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2008 03:00, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 04 December 2008 22:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Thursday 04 December 2008 18:15, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> First, I have sound on another OQO running Centos 5.2 (ALSA 1.0.14 I
>>>>>> believe).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now here is some forensics:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  From lspci -v:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 02:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio
>>>>>> Controller (rev 10)
>>>>>>         Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio
>>>>>> Controller
>>>>>>         Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
>>>>>>         Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>>>>>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>>>>>>         Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
>>>>>> Count=1/1 Enable-
>>>>>>         Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint,
>>>>>> MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
>>>>>>         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cat /proc/asound/version
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cat /proc/asound/cards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --- no soundcards ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OOPS!!!! Why no sound card?
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Hi Robert.
>>>>>
>>>>> What exactly is an OQO?
>>>>>           
>>>> www.oqo.com
>>>>
>>>> I have the model 2 without the touchscreen or WiMax.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> No sound card, means just that. the soundcard can't be detected.
>>>>>
>>>>> You may find that the snd modules are loaded. Try the command as below,
>>>>> and post back the output.
>>>>> /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
>>>>>           
>>>> snd_hda_intel 351124 0
>>>> snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
>>>> snd_seq_oss 30364 0
>>>> snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss
>>>> snd_seq 48576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
>>>> snd_seq_device 10124 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
>>>> snd_pcm_oss 42496 0
>>>> snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss
>>>> snd_pcm 65924 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
>>>> snd_timer 22024 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>>>> snd_page_alloc 11016 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>>>> snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
>>>> snd 50616 10
>>>> snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_o
>>>> ss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 9416 1 snd
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Which make/model of Laptop/PC is this? The OQO bit is a bit confusing.
>>>>>           
>>>> I have 4 of these to be a portable test/demo bed. 3 of them have Centos
>>>> 5.2 on them. One has F10. Interesting comparison of what works for
>>>> Centos and what with F10. Sound is one of the items working fine with
>>>> the Centos installs.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> You could download the script from the link below, save it as
>>>>> alsa-info.sh, make it executable, then run it as ./alsa-info.sh.
>>>>> Running this script will upload info about your machine, and
>>>>> specifically sound related stuff to a website. Post back the link to
>>>>> the site, and I, and hopefully others can examine your problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/tip/alsa-info.sh
>>>>>           
>>> Sound not working on F10. See link to alsa-info.sh output below.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a984f3d7859f7c239c6ecf2cbf5614a1fbdd6c
>>>> ff
>>>>         
>>> Hi Robert.
>>>
>>> Would you please run the alsa-info.sh script on one of your Centos 5.2
>>> machines, where the sound is working ok. Don't trim anything on your
>>> reply, but just add the new link, identifying it as, "Sound working with
>>> Centos 5.2. See link to alsa-info.sh output below".
>>>       
>> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=5d592ffd6dd37b033a165c4c4701651b84d76155
>>
>> Thank you for your help on this.
>>     
>
> Hi Robert.
>
> Thanks for the link above, showing the Centos setup.
>
> Was Fedora 10 a fresh install, or did you upgrade from an earlier version of 
> Fedora.
>
> I notice that alsa-driver is version 1.0.17, but you have alsa lib 1.0.18rc3, 
> and alsa-utils 1.0.18. I don't yet have F10 installed to compare, but did you 
> upgrade the alsa libs, and alsa utils?
>
> You could disable pulseaudio, with a yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio. I 
> don't think it will change anything regarding the card being detected, but 
> it's worth a reboot after removing that package just to see.
>   

Still showing no sound card.

> Also open a terminal, su to root and run, tail -f /var/log/messages, then open 
> another terminal, and su to root, and run the following commands.
> modprobe -r snd-hda-intel
> modprobe snd-hda-intel
>
> See for any messages, and if modprobe snd-hda-intel complains.