Re: How do I get sarge to tell me what hardware it detects?
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:27:24AM +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> The only thing (which I used to use once in a while) that does not work
> is "sound". And I find the silence to be bliss.
There are some relatively simple things you can try. If those don't
work, then, yes, it's probably best to ignore the problem :)
First thing to try is loading any appropriate modules that aren't
currently loaded. Unfortunately, I don't know what driver your SiS
sound card corresponds to, but you can see the list of sound drivers
in /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/sound. 'lsmod' lists all the loaded
modules. Here are the sound modules on my system:
jrennie@debian:~$ lsmod
[snip]
via82cxxx_audio 21820 1
uart401 6532 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
ac97_codec 13720 0 [via82cxxx_audio]
sound 60192 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore 4420 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound]
[snip]
IIUC, uart401, ac97_codec, sound and soundcore are generic sound
modules that are loaded for most any sound card. via82cxxx_audio is
the driver for my specific sound card (I have a VIA chipset).
'modprobe' is the command that loads a module, so 'modprobe
i810_audio' would load the i810_audio.o module (don't include the .o
suffix). 'rmmod' is the command to unload a module. Some Googling
might help you figure out which module goes with your motherboard.
You could also try randomly loading and unloading modules, though this
might have some undesirable effects (nothing a reboot can't fix).
I once ran into the problem that my sound card got the same IRQ as
some other motherboard device. "Endless" attempts never revealed a fix...
Jason
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