[SOLVED] AntiX 22 unable to detect onboard audio chip...
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I've installed AntiX 22 on a Dell Inspiron 531s and have discovered that the OS is unable to detect the onboard audio chip. I've attempted to configure it in the control center but I'm essentially told that no device is present. From what I've been able to determine without opening the case (which I don't want to do unless it's really necessary,) the chip in question is a Realtek ALC888 or ALC888S. It worked fine under Windows Vista before I wiped it from the hard drive. I've looked around on the 'net for a solution but the only possible lead (or solution) I found was way out of my league in terms of understanding and copying what the person did.
Lord willing, I would like to use AntiX for this system, if at all possible. It's the best distribution I've found so far, in terms of low memory usage. It's quite snappy on this particular system. I also like the fact that it doesn't use systemd. If you guys can help me get the sound working on this system, I would appreciate it! If not, an add-on PCI sound card might be possible, Lord willing. Is there a brand and model that would work best in AntiX? I've included the requested information below. Thank you in advance for any help you can give. :-)
Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Hi everyone! :-)
I've installed AntiX 22 on a Dell Inspiron 531s and have discovered that the OS is unable to detect the onboard audio chip. I've attempted to configure it in the control center but I'm essentially told that no device is present. From what I've been able to determine without opening the case (which I don't want to do unless it's really necessary,) the chip in question is a Realtek ALC888 or ALC888S. It worked fine under Windows Vista before I wiped it from the hard drive. I've looked around on the 'net for a solution but the only possible lead (or solution) I found was way out of my league in terms of understanding and copying what the person did.
Lord willing, I would like to use AntiX for this system, if at all possible. It's the best distribution I've found so far, in terms of low memory usage. It's quite snappy on this particular system. I also like the fact that it doesn't use systemd. If you guys can help me get the sound working on this system, I would appreciate it! If not, an add-on PCI sound card might be possible, Lord willing. Is there a brand and model that would work best in AntiX? I've included the requested information below. Thank you in advance for any help you can give. :-)
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Audio:
Message: No device data found.
The relevant part of this is bolded for emphasis; did you read that part?? One of two things makes that happen...either the device is disabled in BIOS (did you check?) or the device is missing firmware/drivers. Look at the dmesg output for things that are relevant to audio/firmware. Running "inxi -A" gives audio device information.
That is old hardware; the last driver updates are from 2008...*FIFTEEN YEARS AGO*, for Windows Vista or Windows 98. Read/try any of the suggested solutions others have posted previously, or provide useful details about what you've tried/are confused about, the relevant details about your audio hardware, and the RELEVANT parts of the dmesg output.
1. Yes, I did confirm the onboard chip is enabled in the BIOS. I intended to include that detail in my original post but forgot. My apologies.
2. I tried using the legacy kernel when I was running AntiX live but it made no difference. If you think it would in the copy I installed on my hard drive, I can give it a try. If there are any specific command line instructions in doing this, please let me know what they are.
I didn't find anything in dmesg that mentioned the audio chip. However, I may have easily missed it. If anyone wants to go through the entire readout, I've attacked a copy of the text file. I'll try to get through the information offered in the pages TB0ne linked to, however, I don't have a lot of time to spend on this project, so it might take me a bit.
Thank you again for your help!
Last edited by ardvark71; 03-21-2023 at 09:44 PM.
Reason: Grammar corrections
Thank you both for your replies and assistance! To answer the questions you asked me...
1. Yes, I did confirm the onboard chip is enabled in the BIOS. I intended to include that detail in my original post but forgot. My apologies.
2. I tried using the legacy kernel when I was running AntiX live but it made no difference. If you think it would in the copy I installed on my hard drive, I can give it a try. If there are any specific command line instructions in doing this, please let me know what they are.
I didn't find anything in dmesg that mentioned the audio chip. However, I may have easily missed it. If anyone wants to go through the entire readout, I've attacked a copy of the text file. I'll try to get through the information offered in the pages TB0ne linked to, however, I don't have a lot of time to spend on this project, so it might take me a bit.
And we don't have time to trawl through your logs to try to solve your problem. If you can't show effort why do you expect us to??? You could easily (after YEARS of using Linux) be able to pipe dmesg through grep for things like "audio", "firmware", and "realtek" to get the relevant parts. Again, to save you time (since you apparently didn't put much effort into doing your own research):
That system is ANCIENT
You were handed a link to the driver patch for that device, which is KNOWN to have problems in Linux
You were handed links to options to put into files/boot lines which may get the device working
You claim to have found a 'lead' and said it was 'over your head', and were asked what you looked at, and you didn't bother answering
You were given specific command line instructions for alsa configs and boot options to try in few (of MANY) pages about your hardware, and since you've got no time to try them, command line kernel instructions would also take some of your valuable time.
If you're not going to provide details about what you've done with your 'lead' or show us where it is, or try anything you've been handed, there isn't much incentive for anyone to try to help you. Either participate in solving your own problems, or hire someone to fix them for you.
After further work on this system, I discovered that there is some issue with the motherboard. I reinstalled the original OS that came with the computer, Windows Vista, and experienced the same problem on it, as well. The sound chip and another onboard device or feature are totally dead, non functioning. Enabling the sound in the BIOS has no affect in any OS. So it turns out that this had nothing to do with AntiX or probably Linux in general. Had the chip or the motherboard been functioning correctly, I'm guessing AntiX probably would've had no problem working with this particular sound chip.
In case it helps anyone, I did purchase a Linux "friendly" or compatible USB audio adapter on Amazon here...
I can confirm it worked fine with (or in) AntiX-22. The only app that it didn't work in is a game called Powermanga but I suspect that has something to do with the game, not AntiX or Linux.
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