Suse 9.2 and AC97 sound

prj · 02-12-2005, 02:22 PM

Thanks donjcook.
Good result.

How complex is this OSS solution?
And how does that licence work?

donjcook · 02-12-2005, 04:52 PM

Hi prj , it was very straight forward , download file , de-compress , read the INSTALL file and execute
one command at the promt. Now as for the licence thing , they let you use the drivers for free, but apparently you must re-install every 4 months or so. I wanted to use the alsa driver badly because
it is open source , but it just is not working on my home PC at all , rats!

Don

prj · 02-12-2005, 05:10 PM

Cheers for that, I'll give it a go next week, another assignment beckons.

Oh the joys of EJBs

mrquad · 02-22-2005, 05:55 AM

Well...
I have the same problem with Suse 9.2 and the Ac97-chip on a Asrock GE PRO-M2 motherboard.
With Slackware10 everything works like a charm...
I haven't put my mind into it but my own approach would be:
Simply install Slackware 10 again
or
Try to see what's diffrent about Slackware's config and change the config in Suse.

Suse is Sexy/Slackware Rocks

donjcook · 02-22-2005, 01:01 PM

Interesting , mrquad . I just did a complete re-install of Suse yesterday , (wasted my holiday playing withy linux -- bad Don ;-) I wonder , does slackware load alsa or oss when it installs ?
That could be why it works and suse dont. Could you please post the results of lsmod and related parts of dmesg please?

mrquad · 02-23-2005, 03:00 PM

Don, I took a look at it yesterday and finally got my Suse 9.2 working with sound.

Solution:
Edit the file '/etc/modprobe.d/sound'
and replace all 'snd-intel8x0'
with 'i810-audio'
- Restart system -

And Slackware does use alsa, I have version 9.1 installed on my laptop(had a fight with alsa on that one).

Hope this helps some of you all.

elyk1212 · 03-03-2005, 06:19 PM

Hi again,

UPDATE: There were some 'enable' jumpers on the Biostar M7vip motherboard that enabled the sound ports in the back. This allowed my CDplayer to pass sound to the sound card. But alsa or OSS would still not work on that computer. I tried the snd-via82xx and the via82cxxx_audio OSS drivers. No such luck

However I did get a Cmedia PCI card to function on the computer and saved myself some sanity. Still, I had hoped to come up with a solution as to help other with undoubtedly the same issue.

By the way, to those having similar issues, Biostar lists the Audio device as:
C-Media AC97 Codec Driver ( 9738 / 9739 )

I just about lost it on this dang audio thing. I am a CSE major and program allot so I *usually* have a lot of patience, but this just didn't make sense. I think it may have to do with parameters passed to the module, of which I was unable to try all values. I think there were something like 5 fields with 7 possible values

That is: 7^5 possibilities if math serves me. (aka: 7 * 7 * 7 * 7 * 7) = 16807

donjcook · 03-12-2005, 11:23 AM

THanks mrquad, I will try that angle next, however now that oss has given me sound I am in not such a big panic to get alsa working ;-)

Next up , my d-link webcam . Yikes!!!!!

have fun all !
Don

elyk1212 · 03-12-2005, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by elyk1212
Hi again,

UPDATE: There were some 'enable' jumpers on the Biostar M7vip motherboard that enabled the sound ports in the back. This allowed my CDplayer to pass sound to the sound card. But alsa or OSS would still not work on that computer. I tried the snd-via82xx and the via82cxxx_audio OSS drivers. No such luck However I did get a Cmedia PCI card to function on the computer and saved myself some sanity. Still, I had hoped to come up with a solution as to help other with undoubtedly the same issue.

By the way, to those having similar issues, Biostar lists the Audio device as:
C-Media AC97 Codec Driver ( 9738 / 9739 )

I just about lost it on this dang audio thing. I am a CSE major and program allot so I *usually* have a lot of patience, but this just didn't make sense. I think it may have to do with parameters passed to the module, of which I was unable to try all values. I think there were something like 5 fields with 7 possible values

That is: 7^5 possibilities if math serves me. (aka: 7 * 7 * 7 * 7 * 7) = 16807

To be thorough, I forgot to mention. Knoppix would allow sound on this system using their OSS drivers. But OSS on Mandrake 10.1 official download, would not work. They both reference the same driver for OSS: via82cxxx_audio.

donjcook · 03-13-2005, 12:59 PM

elyk , did you download OSS from their website? THats what I did and it works fine. Here is my lsmod output, you can see what their driver is ..

Module Size Used by
nvidia 3460920 12
usbserial 26856 0
parport_pc 37824 1
lp 10536 0
parport 37960 2 parport_pc,lp
nvram 8328 0
speedstep_lib 4228 0
freq_table 4356 0
thermal 17928 0
processor 25640 1 thermal
fan 5380 0
button 8464 0
battery 11396 0
ac 6404 0
af_packet 20872 0
osslinux 1766292 4
edd 10012 0
ipv6 237312 13
joydev 9664 0
st 37404 0
sg 35872 0
snd_page_alloc 10248 0
sd_mod 16912 0
sr_mod 16292 0
usb_storage 62400 0
scsi_mod 111308 5 st,sg,sd_mod,sr_mod,usb_storage
usblp 12032 1
ov51x 91704 0
videodev 9344 1 ov51x
ide_cd 38176 0
cdrom 36508 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ehci_hcd 29188 0
via_agp 8960 1
agpgart 32168 2 via_agp
uhci_hcd 29712 0
binfmt_misc 11272 1
via_ircc 21520 0
irda 119484 1 via_ircc
crc_ccitt 2176 1 irda
evdev 8960 0
subfs 7552 2
nls_utf8 2176 1
nls_cp437 5888 1
vfat 13056 1
fat 43168 1 vfat
dm_mod 54524 0
ndiswrapper 90640 0
usbcore 106724 11 usbserial,osslinux,usb_storage,usblp,ov51x,ehci _hcd,uhci_hcd,ndiswrapper
reiserfs 242000 1
don@moose:~>

Good luck!!