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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sound driver
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:24:59
Message-Id: loom.20041206T180856-953@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound driver by Holly Bostick
1 Holly Bostick <motub <at> planet.nl> writes:
2
3 > > <snip>
4 > > * Loading ALSA drivers...
5 [ ok ]
6 > > * Restoring Mixer Levels
7 > > * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card!
8 [ ok ]
9 > > <snip>
10 >
11 > This would be handled by alsaconf, or manually by you in alsamixer, but
12 > your card is not found or loaded so naturally alsasound has nothing to
13 > work with.
14 >
15 agreed! what now?
16
17 > Have you modprobed the appropriate modules for your motherboard and/or
18 > sound card before attempting to run alsaconf?
19
20 Well, bear with me, as we're covering 'new turf', here's what I found:
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22 lspci -v shows:
23 0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound
24 Controller (rev a0)
25 Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 0402
26 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 173, IRQ 5
27 I/O ports at 1c00
28 I/O ports at 1800 [size=128]
29 Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
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33 lsmod
34 Module Size Used by
35 <so it's empty>
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38 modprobe -c | grep sis reveals:
39 alias pci:v00001039d00000180sv*sd*bc*sc*i* sata_sis
40 alias pci:v00001039d00000181sv*sd*bc*sc*i* sata_sis
41
42 modprobe -c | grep snd reveals:
43 alias char-major-116-* snd
44 alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
45 alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
46 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
47 alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
48 alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
49 alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
50 alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
51 alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
52 alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
53 alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
54 options snd cards_limit=1
55
56 modprobe -c | grep bt
57 alias bt-proto-0 l2cap
58 alias bt-proto-2 sco
59 alias bt-proto-3 rfcomm
60 alias bt-proto-4 bnep
61 alias char-major-81-* bttv
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64 Obviously, I do not really know how to use modprobe, robustly....
65 so flames are OK....
66
67 I could easily have something buggered up in the kernel, or
68 completely missing too....
69 James
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