Configuring onboard intel soundcard: No sound

[Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@t-online.de>]

Hey good folks,

I am trying to get sound running on a computer with an intel board and 
the following parameters:

# lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio 
Controller (rev 02)

# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                     HDA Intel at 0x88320000 irq 23

# head -n5 /proc/asound/card0/codec#2
Codec: SigmaTel STAC9271D
Address: 2
Vendor Id: 0x83847627
Subsystem Id: 0x80862504
Revision Id: 0x100201

I tried:
modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss ; 
modprobe snd-seq-oss

Result: No error message when playing audio but also no sound.


I also tried
#alsoconf (the above card was recognized without problems)
# alsactl store
alsactl: save_state:1253: No soundcards found...
#speaker-test


speaker-test 1.0.14

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib confmisc.c:769:(parse_card) cannot find card ''
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function 
snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat 
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer 
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Playback open error: -19,No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:769:(parse_card) cannot find card ''
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function 
snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat 
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer 
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Playback open error: -19,No such device


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Any ideas? PS, I am running sid with a 2.6.22 kernel.

Thanks, Peter