Re: Onboard soundcard just disappearing...
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 13:33, Tom wrote:
> * [Wednesday 04 August 2004 20:06] Ian Knopke:
>
> > Are you sure the hardware is still working properly? I have had
> > soundcards fail permanently before.
>
> Argh... And: no, I'm not sure. How can I make sure anyway? I was
> starting to think of a hardware problem too, but I thought if the
> card is properly detected, it should be all right... So you say it
> doesn't necessarily have to be?
>
> As for your other questions: I didn't move my computer around or
> something like that, no. The card just, well, stopped working out of
> the blue.
>
> > What kind of soundcard is it exactly?
>
> Ehm... An onboard card; it's identified as 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio.
> *blush* That's about all I know, really, except from the fact that
> I've always been able to play music with i8x0 drivers.
>
> cat /proc/asound/cards reports
>
> 0 [VirMIDI ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI
> Virtual MIDI Card 1
> 1 [I82801BAICH2 ]: ICH - Intel 82801BA-ICH2
> Intel 82801BA-ICH2 at 0xa800, irq 17
>
> Greets,
> Tom
>
tom,
try compiling an OSS driver (not ALSA pcm-oss emulation either) for the
card. i know it is deprecated (in 2.6.7), but working with /dev/dsp is
pretty low level (in my mind at least).
you can always do things like "cat /dev/dsp > audio.raw" and "cat
/dev/urandom > /dev/dsp"
-matt
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