Re: Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC
On Sunday 10 July 2005 06:44, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> Okay, it has been over a week since I had time to
> work on this. Please accept my apologies, but I've
> been busy. The previous title was:
>
> Re: [Fwd: Re: Sound problem: apparently I don't have
> the alsa modules up yet after all
>
> among others.
>
> I'm going to systematically recapitulate for myself,
> and sharing, the settings I have achieved so far for
> sound (the video problem is one of blurring digits,
> and I'll get to that later if I have time).
>
> joehill:~# lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P
> DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
> 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.
> 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER
> (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.1 USB
> Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
> UHCI #2 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel
> Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER
> (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.7 USB
> Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2
> EHCI Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge:
> Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) 0000:00:1f.0
> ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC
> Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel
> Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage
> Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel
> Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage
> Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.
> 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
> 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.
> 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev
> 02) 0000:01:02.0 Communication controller: Conexant:
> Unknown device 2f20 0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller:
> Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev
> 02) joehill:~# lsmod
> Module Size Used by Not tainted
> snd-intel8x0 19584 1
> snd-ac97-codec 59576 0 [snd-intel8x0]
> snd-pcm-oss 38176 0
> snd-mixer-oss 13432 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-pcm 59272 0 [snd-intel8x0
> snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss] snd-timer
> 14148 0 [snd-pcm]
> snd 34276 0 [snd-intel8x0
> snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm
> snd-timer] soundcore 3940 4 [snd]
> snd-page-alloc 4936 0 [snd-intel8x0
> snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd] input
> 3648 0 (autoclean) i830
> 68476 1
> agpgart 46244 10 (autoclean)
> apm 9964 0 (autoclean)
> parport_pc 23880 1 (autoclean)
> lp 6724 0 (autoclean)
> parport 26504 1 (autoclean)
> [parport_pc lp] af_packet 13000 1
> (autoclean) usb-storage 65088 0
> (unused)
> e100 50036 1
> ehci-hcd 18412 0 (unused)
> usb-uhci 23344 0 (unused)
> usbcore 62924 1 [usb-storage
> ehci-hcd usb-uhci] sd_mod 11756 0
> (unused)
> scsi_mod 95108 2 [usb-storage
> sd_mod] ide-cd 31296 0
> cdrom 29828 0 [ide-cd]
> rtc 6440 0 (autoclean)
> ext3 81068 5 (autoclean)
> jbd 42468 5 (autoclean) [ext3]
> ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean)
> (unused) piix 9096 2
> (autoclean) ide-disk 16800 6
> (autoclean) ide-core 108568 6
> (autoclean) [usb-storage ide-cd ide-detect piix
> ide-disk] unix 14960 218
> (autoclean)
>
> Okay, as before the symptom is I can play the songs
> on a Duke Ellington CD, but the tracks show playing
> with no actual sound coming out. The program I'm
> using is CD Player under Multimedia under the
> Applications pulldown. We determined previously that
> no cables were obviously connected badly (I have a
> green sound cable going into the appropriately
> labeled "line out" green plug in the back of the
> machine, and you'll see by the specs on the net
> (http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:9PkH8iJNtvQJ:www.
>cyberscholar.com/eMachines/doc/spring05_3985_SF.pdf+T3
>985+Desktop+PC+&hl=en) that the thing has on-board
> sound and the bios has this enabled (just checke
> again). My friend Bill Warner suggested these
> problems may happen from some kind of conflict with
> the video driver, and that my problems might be best
> solved if I install Sid (test) instead of sarge, but
> I'd like to have sarge going because I want to use
> the system to help QA web stuff from my work.
>
> Finally, I will review below as I go through my setup
> steps from this instruct- ions page
> (http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/alsa.html#sargestoc
>k) I immediately see that I do not have an
> /etc/modules directory, so that must have changed in
> mid-sarge, presumably. I see the string
> "snd-intel8x0" in modules.conf. The file has all the
> stuff listed in step 3 of the above referenced
> instructions, and it also has a bunch of stuff that
> says "oss" on it, like:
>
> above sound-slot-0 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
> snd-seq-oss .
> .
> .
> above sound-slot-7 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
> snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> .
> .
> .
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> and I wonder if I need to delete these or comment
> them out...?
>
> There is a whole mess of different discover files and
> directories in here too, including a
> /etc/default/discover, /etc/init.d.discover,
> discover.d, and discover.conf.d, and
> discover-v1.conf, and discover.conf-2.6 and
> discover-modprobe.conf. I wonder if I just deleted
> all those things if it might somehow improve the
> state of politics in the world.
>
> Anyhow, if anybody out there could get me a little
> further with this additional information, I'd sure
> appeciate it. I'd like to know I can really use this
> machine before the takeback time (next Friday is the
> last day) comes due.
>
> Sincerely, Xeno Campanoli
Please see the post I just posted a few minutes ago
trying to help Trace Green with a problem with the same
driver.
My suggestions are you've either not unmuted the sound
settings or you've got the dreaded "AC97 Quirk" and
need to be focusing on Headphone volume to control
actual master volume.
If you have Linux kernel source installed, check out
<linux kernel source dir>/Documenation/sound/ALSA
Configuration.txt for info on the "quirk".
If you haven't got amixer on your machine, apt-get
alsa-utils to get it then use amixer to check and if
necessary modify the mute state and volume of your
Master, PCM, and other settings. If this succeeds and
doesn't help try modifying your Headphone settings
(unmute and set vol) as you may have the "quirk". If
you do you have the option of trying to get the driver
to work around it or just living with it (which is what
I'm doing so far).
For the rest of the detail, see the post I just posted
before this.
Mark
PS your lspci and lsmod output look healthy, at least to
my no-better-than-mediocrely-tutored eye. But if you
haven't set volume and mute settings on your mixer
since switching to the ALSA driver, they'll be muted,
dollars to doughnuts...
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