Re: Onboard soundcard just disappearing...
Hi Tom,
Are you sure the hardware is still working properly? I have had soundcards
fail permanently before.
Also, if it is a PCI card, you might want to open the case and check that
it is still pushed into the slot properly, or take it out and put it back
in again. Did you move the computer around recently?
What kind of soundcard is it exactly?
:i
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Tom wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I was listening to some radio broadcast with MPlayer. I quit MPlayer to
> start listening some music with XMMS, but without any apparent reason,
> XMMS couldn't output any sound at all any more. It didn't show the
> usual error dialog, though ("please check that..."), but since I
> started it from the command line, I noticed an endless chain of alsa
> errors ("broken pipes, alsa_free(), failed" is the gist of it as far as
> I recall).
>
> In the meantime, I've recompiled my kernel some times and generally
> tried about anything I could think of (not that much, I'm afraid, since
> I've never had this kind of audio problem before).
>
> "alsaconf" no longer detects any PCI or PnP cards, alsamixer of course
> can't mix anything at all. I was about to wonder whether my onboard
> sound thingy just exploded or something, but judging from the output of
> both dmesg (1) and lspci (2), it seems to be there and to be noticed
> just fine.
>
> (1) intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49260 usecs
> intel8x0: clocking to 48000
> ALSA device list:
> #0: Virtual MIDI Card 1
> #1: Intel 82801BA-ICH2 at 0xa800, irq 17
> (2) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM
> AC'97 Audio (rev 04)
> Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 8095
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> I/O ports at a800 [size=256]
> I/O ports at a400 [size=64]
>
> At this point, I'm getting out of ideas. Kernel version is 2.6.7. I'd
> say I've done something wrong compiling it with alsa support, but that
> can't be it, since it has been functioning for quite some time now, and
> just suddenly refused to continue to do so.
>
> Could anybody please help me find out what's wrong here...?
>
> Greets,
> Tom
>
>
>
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