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sound card doesn't work
Posted by Piotr on October 7th, 2003


My sound card doesn't play any sound.

Play program returns the following message:

sox: Sound card appears to only support 2 channels. Overriding format

but it doesn't exit at once. It plays the song but I can't hear anything.

Audio Player doesn't return any message as well. It plays the song but I
can't hear anything as well.

I have the speakers pluged into the proper socket and Sound Mixer isn't
turned off.

I have RH9 with standard kernel 2.4.20-8. I didn't configure or remove
any functionality from the kernel.
sndconfig and Sound Detection from KDE claims that finds the following card:
Model: 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio
Module: i810_audio

The following is what system reports:

############### /var/log/messages:

Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24,
17:59:48 Mar 13 2003
Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00: 1f.5
Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:05.0
Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x9 400 and
0x9800, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 10
Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller sup ports 6
channels.
Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id : ADS112
(Unknown)
Oct 6 09:39:47 host kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 suppor ts AMAP,
total channels = 6
Oct 6 09:39:47 host modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-0-0
Oct 6 09:39:48 host modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Oct 6 09:39:48 host modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-1-0
Oct 6 09:39:48 host modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Oct 6 09:39:48 host modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-1-0

##################### dmesg:

Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 17:59:48 Mar 13 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:05.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x9400 and 0x9800, MEM 0x0000 an
d 0x0000, IRQ 10
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS112 (Unknown)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 6

#################### lsmod:

ide-cd 35708 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 33728 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
i810_audio 27720 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13640 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6404 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
via-rhine 15856 1
mii 3976 0 [via-rhine]
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd 19976 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 26348 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51892 2 [ext3]


################# /etc/module.conf

alias usb-controller1 usb-uhci
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
options adlib_card io=0x388
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
################# lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host
Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge
(rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 05)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 05)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio
(rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 If
[Radeon 9000] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Radeon
9000] (Secondary) (rev 01)
02:05.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
02:05.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
02:05.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III]
(rev 8b)


thank You for any help



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