debian on a sony vaio xmp laptop : no sound and no modem
Hello,
I need help for configuring sound and modem on a sony laptop running debian
(testing/unstable) with a 2.6.7 kernel built with the required alsa
drivers, I hope.
Here is the way I've proceeded.
o Using lspci, the sound+modem card is identified as follows
+ Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97
Audio Controller (rev 03)
+ Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev
03) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
o I've then configured the kernel so that the snd_intel8x0 (audio)
and (snd_intel8x0m) alsa
drivers be built as modules. Of course, the sound support have
been enabled (soundcore
module)
o In order to order to handle the modem, I've installed the
sl-modem-daemon package.
I've also installed the sl-modem-source and compiled the
correspoding modules,
slamr and slusb (here, I'm not sure that building these modules
along with the alsa
inteli8x0m is a correct decision).
o Here is the way the sound is configured, (contents of the files
correspond to the native setup)
+ /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base :
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm &&
/sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss
+ /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd device_mode=0660
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
o After having booted the machine, things seem to run fine as
confirmed (?)
by these lines extracted from the output of lsmod (when playing
a music cd)
snd_intel8x0 30472 2
snd_intel8x0m 16712 0
snd_ac97_codec 66628 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
snd_pcm_oss 49704 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 3 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 83556 3
snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 20356 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9096 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 6016 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 19648 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6664 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 46180 10
snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,
snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7072 3 snd
o But there's no sound coming out. Even the beep one hears when
trying for instance
to do a bash completion doesn't occur. Please note that I've
checked the volume setup
using either aumix or alsamixer: things seems ok.
o Finally, when trying to connect at home using the modem nothing
happens.
+ The intel8x0m module is loaded, as well as the slamr module
(from: sl-modem-source)
+ There is a "failed (NO DIALTONE)" diagnostic reported in
/var/log/messages.
I'm not able to see what is wrong in my setup. I hope I've given enough
details so that
you can help me. I thank you in advance.
Regards,
Max
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Latevi Max LAWSON DAKU
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Universite de Geneve - Sciences II
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