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From: Holla <holla.net@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] VIA on-board sound failure
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:13:45
Message-Id: 51e438da0912300712r38ddf06fu6f1badb08215ef43@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
2
3 I had been running a mythtv frontend/backend on a VIA EPIA
4 mainboard (mini-itx). Kernel is 2.6.18.9 and gentoo 2006 !!
5 This whole setup was quite stable until I powered down the system
6 for three days recently. Now when I power on I see the following
7 lines in /var/log/message
8
9
10 VIA 82xx Audio 0000:00:11.5: setting latency timer to 64
11 ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000]
12 ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000]
13 ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:522: codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x1000000]
14 ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:522: codec_ready: codec 0 is not ready [0x1000000]
15 ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fc0000]
16 ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x1fe0000]
17 ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2069: AC'97 0 access is not valid
18 [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
19 VIA 82xx Audio: probe of 0000:00:11.5 failed with error -5
20
21 --
22 cat /proc/asound/cards
23 --- no soundcards ---
24
25
26 lspci does list the onboard controller properly.
27
28 Is this a hardware failure ? How can I confirm it ?
29
30 regards
31 holla