Re: How to enable sound with Intel AC'97 on Sony VAIO GRX316G?
Hi,
your comments helped me to get sound working on my laptop and on my
desktop. On the desktop everything works fine, but I disabled it on my
lapto, because the sound is a bit messed up and more importantly since I
have sound my machine crashs from time to time. I believe this problem
is pretty hard to fix as the machine really crashs: no caps lock light
anymore, no logs etc ... So I'll stop here as sounds is not _that_
important.
I still have no /dev/sonypi, but the module is loaded probably. But
that is not a real problem as
Thanx for your help! I learned a lot ;-)
Cheers,
Mariano
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 21:03, Thomas Girard wrote:
>
>
> Mariano Kamp wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 18:08, Thomas Girard wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Add i810_audio to /etc/modules. You may also use the sonypi modules
> >>which will allow you to use the jogdial (apt-get install sjog).
> >
> > That is interesting. How do I know that the jogdial is working? Do I
> > need to change something in XConfig?
> >
> * modprobe sonypi. Check that /dev/sonypi exists. If not, check
> /var/log/messages. A modinfo sonypi could help you too.
> * In a xsession, run sjog. If you get a permission denied error, try
> running sjog as root, just to see if it works. Using this program, you
> can change sound volume, change brightness, and many other things since
> it is fully customizable.
> * You'll probably need to change the permissions on /dev/sonypi or
> change group of this device. If you happen to use devfsd, then I can't
> help you anymore, because I'm using it and I haven't read devfsd.conf
> manpage yet. So I can't really use sjog when not root ;-).
> * The next step would be to prepend somewhere, e.g. in your .xsession or
> your .xinitrc: sjog & before running any window manager.
> > Cheers,
> > Mariano
> >
> >
> >>> * but when loaded by hand
> >>> * xmms does work and outputs that it used OSS
> >>> * kde sound does not work (when logging in it complains about
> >>> /dev/dsp permision denied)
> >>
> >>Add yourself to the audio group, or whatever group the /dev/dsp device
> >>belongs to.
> >>When modprobing i810_audio, if you did compile as modules OSS soud
> >>modules, your lsmod should read :
> >>i810_audio
> >>soundcore
> >>ac97_codec
> >>
> >>Hope this helps. Note that my lsmod also reads i810_rng, since I
> >>compiled as a module the pseudo random number generator. I'm not sure
> >>it's related, but that's worth trying. Anyway, since you're using a
> >>vaio, you should use the sonypi driver (located in character devices).
> >>Being able to use the jogdial is great, and I think it also gives access
> >>to other sony specific features.
> >>
> >>> * gnome is quiet too
> >>>
> >>> What should I do next?
> >>>
> >>> What about alsa? I read that alsa is now the way to go, but oss. I
> >>>didn't find a alsa howto nor a package below /usr/doc. Where should I
> >>>look?
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>>Mariano
> >>>
> >>>On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 13:50, Thomas Girard wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I had exactly the same problem, on the same machine.
> >>>>First of all, you should try OSS module i810_audio. If you card remains
> >>>>mute, or produces strange sounds as it did for me, you'll have to follow
> >>>>these steps:
> >>>>Update ACPI on your kernel. The reason why the sound card was not
> >>>>correctly working before is related to a IRQ sharing issue solved
> >>>>recently in the ACPI subsystem.
> >>>>the sound works perfectly with the OSS driver Intel ICH (i8xx) module
> >>>>named i810_audio. So you have to:
> >>>>1. Patch your kernel with the latest version of ACPI, available from
> >>>>http://acpi.sourceforge.net
> >>>>2. Compile a new kernel with ACPI enabled (I include it in the kernel,
> >>>>not as a module), and choose in the sound config:
> >>>><M> Sound card support
> >>>>...
> >>>><M> Intel ICH (i8xx)
> >>>>...
> >>>><M> OSS Sound modules
> >>>>3. Use the new kernel.
> >>>>
> >>>>I can provide my .config, if it helps,
> >>>>
> >>>>Thomas
> >>>>
> >>>>Mariano Kamp wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> lspci -vv gives the following output:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. AC'97 Audio Controller
> >>>>>(rev 02)
> >>>>> Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80fa
> >>>>> Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> >>>>>ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> >>>>> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> >>>>><TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> >>>>> Latency: 0
> >>>>> Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9
> >>>>> Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
> >>>>> Region 1: I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I don't find a Kernel Module with a similar name?! What do I need to
> >>>>>look for? Would the discovery of the right module be everything needed
> >>>>>to get the sound up and running on woody or do I need anything else?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just in case that is interesting?!hamlet:/home/mkamp# lsmod
> >>>>>Module Size Used by Not tainted
> >>>>>bsd_comp 3968 0 (autoclean)
> >>>>>ppp_async 5984 1 (autoclean)
> >>>>>ppp_generic 14088 3 (autoclean) [bsd_comp ppp_async]
> >>>>>slhc 4352 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
> >>>>>eepro100 16976 1
> >>>>>ieee1394 25576 0 (unused)
> >>>>>usb-uhci 20996 0 (unused)
> >>>>>usbcore 52512 0 [usb-uhci]
> >>>>>rtc 5368 0 (autoclean)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Mariano
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Thomas Girard
> >>>>51 rue Curiol
> >>>>13001 Marseille
> >>>>
> >>>>mailto:thomas.g.girard@free.fr
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>13001 Marseille
> >>
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