Re: AMD64 / Debian / Sound

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Austin Denyer wrote:
> Athlon64:/proc/asound# cat cards
> --- no soundcards ---
> Athlon64:/proc/asound# 
> 
> Aha!  I'm betting that's the problem ;-D

Or an indication of the problem.  Certainly no card detected there.

> Athlon64:/proc/asound# lspci -n | grep 0401
> 0000:00:04.0 0401: 10de:0059 (rev a2)
> Athlon64:/proc/asound#

So 10de:0059 is the PCI id of the sound chip.

> Athlon64:/proc/asound# modinfo snd-intel8x0|grep -i 10de             
> alias:          pci:v000010DEd000000EAsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000010DEd000000DAsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000010DEd0000006Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v000010DEd000001B1sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> Athlon64:/proc/asound# 

I get:
alias:          pci:v000010DEd000001B1sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd0000003Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd0000006Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd00000059sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd0000008Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd000000DAsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd000000EAsv*sd*bc*sc*i*

which includes 0059, which yours does not.  I am running 2.6.10 which
has alsa 1.06.  If you are running 2.6.8 then you only have alsa 1.04
which I suspect does not include support for your chip.  I guess you
should upgrade to the 2.6.10 kernel and it should start working.

> So, it looks like the problem is that my sound card is not being
> detected.
> 
> How would I get Debian to detect the sound card?

Upgrade kernel to one with a new enough alsa version to have your chip
supported.

Len Sorensen