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As you might tell from other threads I have been tinkering with dsl on some quite old hardware. I've come to like it alot. But I once again run into a problem: my sound card isn't working. When I boot it says something about loading a driver for a sound card and even shows it in system stats under hardware. But when I play an audio file I get a message telling me to check stuff like audio drivers and if it's recognized. I'm clueless. Under system stats it comes up as Rockwell chameleon combo card [ ac97 audio controller ] an driver as via82cxxx_audio. I don't think that's my sound card but im not sure what It is so I will check soon.
If you guys want more specifics just ask. I'm willing to cooperate and am active ( I won't just post this and never say anything again )
yeah good luck if oss works stay with it otherwise readon
alsa has (put in a code box for display purposes only)
Module snd-via82xx
Code:
Module for AC'97 motherboards based on VIA 82C686A/686B, 8233,
8233A, 8233C, 8235, 8237 (south) bridge.
mpu_port - 0x300,0x310,0x320,0x330, otherwise obtain BIOS setup
[VIA686A/686B only]
joystick - Enable joystick (default off) [VIA686A/686B only]
ac97_clock - AC'97 codec clock base (default 48000Hz)
dxs_support - support DXS channels,
0 = auto (default), 1 = enable, 2 = disable,
3 = 48k only, 4 = no VRA, 5 = enable any sample
rate and different sample rates on different
channels
[VIA8233/C, 8235, 8237 only]
ac97_quirk - AC'97 workaround for strange hardware
See "AC97 Quirk Option" section below.
This module supports one chip and autoprobe.
Note: on some SMP motherboards like MSI 694D the interrupts might
not be generated properly. In such a case, please try to
set the SMP (or MPS) version on BIOS to 1.1 instead of
default value 1.4. Then the interrupt number will be
assigned under 15. You might also upgrade your BIOS.
Note: VIA8233/5/7 (not VIA8233A) can support DXS (direct sound)
channels as the first PCM. On these channels, up to 4
streams can be played at the same time, and the controller
can perform sample rate conversion with separate rates for
each channel.
As default (dxs_support = 0), 48k fixed rate is chosen
except for the known devices since the output is often
noisy except for 48k on some mother boards due to the
bug of BIOS.
Please try once dxs_support=5 and if it works on other
sample rates (e.g. 44.1kHz of mp3 playback), please let us
know the PCI subsystem vendor/device id's (output of
"lspci -nv").
If dxs_support=5 does not work, try dxs_support=4; if it
doesn't work too, try dxs_support=1. (dxs_support=1 is
usually for old motherboards. The correct implemented
board should work with 4 or 5.) If it still doesn't
work and the default setting is ok, dxs_support=3 is the
right choice. If the default setting doesn't work at all,
try dxs_support=2 to disable the DXS channels.
In any cases, please let us know the result and the
subsystem vendor/device ids. See "Links and Addresses"
below.
Note: for the MPU401 on VIA823x, use snd-mpu401 driver
additionally. The mpu_port option is for VIA686 chips only.
The power-management is supported.
Thanks for the link to the driver! I'll try it out tommorow and report back with results. hopefully it works. I think riptide is the audio card now that I think about it.
Ok so I tried the driver this morning. But I'm having an issue. Here's what I did. I downloaded the tar.gz for the riptide card. Extracted it in the prompt and navigated to the folder, where I ran make install. But it says, bash: make: command not found. So how do I fix this? The only thin I did differently was change the folder name so it was easier to type in.
and i tried using ripconfig. it gives some confusing results:
dsl@box:~$ ripconfig
Linux RIPTIDE audio/communication drivers, version 0.6lnxtbeta03122800
WARNING: this is an EXPERIMENTAL BETA VERSION of the RIPTIDE drivers for Linux.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! See the file /usr/lib/riptide/LICENSE for details.
Conexant Systems neither distributes nor maintains this package.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT CONEXANT REGARDING THIS SOFTWARE!!!
When reporting a problem for the first time, please send
us the file generated by "ripconfig --dumpdiag".
RIPTIDE drivers have not been fully tested on SMP kernels.
Please report results to <riptide-bugs@linuxant.com>
This package does not contain pre-built modules suitable for your system:
Distribution: Debian-testing/unstable
Kernel arch: i686-SMP
Kernel version: linux-2.4.31
Please obtain the appropriate variant of this package for your system
or try the generic RPM or tar version.
hopefully you guys can do something with what i posted.thanks for your help so far though!
This package contains Linux drivers for the Conexant (Rockwell) RipTide Audio/Communication Controller.
These drivers are not fully tested and no longer being actively developed, because they are based on the OSS interface, which will soon be obsoleted in favor of ALSA.
IMO its not worth trying that hard anyway, a 'not good but better than AC-97' sound card which works with linux is worth, ohh, about $5 these days......
if that oss is not playing or too time consuming etc be aware of my post showing there is the ac97 quirk
so pls post your lspci -v in a code box but add I need to see your full output for
lsmod
2) it is possible to forecast...you have alsa already running...and the module loaded has not used the quirk feature.
I can build you a blacklist module config or a remove alsa modules so that you can manually test something like
Code:
su
modprobe snd-via82xx ac97_quirk
but VIA823x and VIA686 chipset need to be resolved as well and thats down with your output of lspci -v
I forgot to mention that I still have some browser issues so prefer not to edit.
if you prefer to try my alsa attempted solution I will also need to know what configs you have
ie
any asoundrc?
any modprobe.conf
any rc.local entry for sound
to give you a better idea of my plans for you...if I am any good? here is my howto
altho its designed for deb users I am sure other alsa users if have skills can follow it as well
good luck
---------- Post added 02-11-11 at 07:30 ----------
I forgot to mention that I still have some browser issues so prefer not to edit.
if you prefer to try my alsa attempted solution I will also need to know what configs you have
ie
any asoundrc?
any modprobe.conf
any rc.local entry for sound
to give you a better idea of my plans for you...if I am any good? here is my howto
ok so we have
01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Rockwell International Unknown device 4310
Subsystem: Risq Modular Systems, Inc. Unknown device 4310
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 2000 [disabled] [size=64]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
and you have no sound module loaded. good start eh?
http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/v2.2/pci.ids
search Rockwell ....no hits your audio device but its shows [disabled]
search for Risq ...one irrelevant entry
question...Have you any bios settings to disable this device
2) I assume you do not need the modem? if so can you disable it?
---------- Post added 02-11-11 at 10:19 ----------
ok so we have
01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Rockwell International Unknown device 4310
Subsystem: Risq Modular Systems, Inc. Unknown device 4310
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 2000 [disabled] [size=64]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
and you have no sound module loaded. good start eh?
http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/v2.2/pci.ids
search Rockwell ....no hits your audio device but its shows [disabled]
search for Risq ...one irrelevant entry
question...Have you any bios settings to disable this device
2) I assume you do not need the modem? if so can you disable it?
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