etch audio fails on intel 845ge
Good day,
Installed debian etch on i386 with vorbis-tools on a system with
embedded sound on an Intel D845GERG2L motherboard, and audio programs
fail to produce sound. According to the manual, the audio subsystem
features the Intel 845GE chipset (AC '97) and Analog Devices Inc.
AD1981B audio codec.
sh-3.1$ ogg123 totown-dulc1.ogg
--- Driver sun specified in configuration file invalid.
Audio Device: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
Playing: totown-dulc1.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA snd_pcm_open error: No such device
Error: Cannot open device alsa09.
sh-3.1$ dmesg
...
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 19:04:22 Aug 18 2006
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xe080 and 0xe400, MEM 0xfebff800 and 0xfebff400, IRQ 209
i810: Intel ICH4 mmio at 0xf09b8800 and 0xf09ba400
i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 2
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 2
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS116 (Analog Devices AD1981B)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 2 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
Adding 1614492k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1614492k
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
...
sanctum:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---
sh-3.1$ lspci -v | grep -i audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
sh-3.1$ grep -e snd -e sound /proc/modules
snd_intel8x0 29436 0 - Live 0xf0a4a000
snd_ac97_codec 82784 1 snd_intel8x0, Live 0xf0a60000
snd_ac97_bus 2048 1 snd_ac97_codec, Live 0xf0a0c000
snd_pcm 74408 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec, Live 0xf0a77000
snd_timer 20292 1 snd_pcm, Live 0xf0a44000
snd 46080 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer, Live 0xf0a53000
snd_page_alloc 9800 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm, Live 0xf0a08000
soundcore 8672 2 snd,i810_audio, Live 0xf09bc000
so in a web browser, went to debian.org, Documentation,
HOWTOs (many others), 4.5.5.1 Audio, Alsa-sound,
7.4 General suggestions, where it advises to start with insmod
to see an error message on the screen.
searching on google, found the Gentoo ALSA Guide at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
which advises to look up the driver in the ALSA Soundcard Matrix
unfortunately, I cannot reach www.alsa-project.org
I can ping it, but I cannot connect to port 80.
What other documentation should I read, if any? Is debian-users a good
place to ask for help, or should I ask elsewhere?
Thank you,
Ben
Reply to: