Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound driver

[Holly Bostick]

James wrote:
> Christoph Eckert <mchristoph.eckert <at> t-online.de> writes:
>
>
>
>>>I could easily have something buggered up in the kernel, or
>>>completely missing too....
>>
>>So a check for ALSA in the kernel should be the next step. The
>>ALSA utils can do nothing as long there's no ALSA support in
>>the kernel.
>
> Alsa is in the kernel....
>
>
>>But maybe your chip isn't supported by ALSA?
>
> Nor in OSS. SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems audio chips do not
> seem to be support, at least with kernel selection.

Yes they are---

ALSA:

CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0: 
 

 
 

     Say Y here to include support for the integrated AC97 sound 
 

     device on motherboards with Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD chipsets, or 
 

     ALi chipsets using the M5455 Audio Controller.  (There is a 
 

     separate driver for ALi M5451 Audio Controllers.) 
 

 
 

     To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 
 

     will be called snd-intel8x0. 
 

 
 


OSS:

  CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT: 
 

 
 

     Say Y or M if you have a PCI sound card utilizing the Trident 
 

     4DWave-DX/NX chipset or your mother board chipset has SiS 7018 
 

     or ALi 5451 built-in. The SiS 7018 PCI Audio Core is embedded 
 

     in SiS960 Super South Bridge and SiS540/630 Single Chipset. 
 

     The ALi 5451 PCI Audio Core is embedded in ALi M1535, M1535D, 
 

     M1535+ or M1535D+ South Bridge. 
 

 
 

     Use lspci -n to find out if your sound card or chipset uses 
 

     Trident 4DWave or SiS 7018. PCI ID 1023:2000 or 1023:2001 stands 
 

     for Trident 4Dwave. PCI ID 1039:7018 stands for SiS7018. PCI ID 
 

     10B9:5451 stands for ALi5451. 
 

 
 

This is kernel 2.6.10-rc2-bk7, and alsa-driver-1.0.7

So you probably want to dig out your mobo manual and see if you can get 
more information on just what chipset is at work here.

Maybe you're just using the wrong drivers.

You might also want to check if you've enabled the I2C bus for your mobo 
chipset-- I'm not quite sure what it is, but if the kernel has gone to 
so much trouble to include some special support for my mobo's particular 
version of it in the kernel, I figure I should enable it ;-) . It might 
be important, and might be some dependency of the sound drivers (or 
other similar onboard components).
 
 

HTH,
Holly

>
>
  > alsaconf runs, it just fails to find anything......
>
> I'm beginning to think there is no support for SiS audio chips:
> 0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
> Sound Controller (rev a0)
>         Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 0402
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 173, IRQ 5
>         I/O ports at 1c00
>         I/O ports at 1800 [size=128]
>         Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>
>
> James
>

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