Jeff Abrahamson on Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:21:06 -0500


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[PLUG] sound woes


I'm trying to get sound to work on my machine. I have onboard sound
that doesn't work. The line from lspci about onboard sound is this:

 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 05)

But sndconfig only manages to get some chipmunks to talk out of that
(very fast, high-pitched samples), and I keep being told that no
device is available when I try to play an mp3 or other sound file.

OK, so onboard sound is iffy, I put in a SoundBlaster 16 card. Now
lspci reports this:

 02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)

I try sndconfig again, but I think it's just seeing the onboard
sound. Anyway, it doesn't manage to play anything.

Any suggestions on what to do? I've read the sound howto and poked
about on google, but I'm not clear what to do.

Thanks much for any help or suggestions.


(Here's the full lspci output, fwiw:

 jeff@asterix:etc $ lspci
 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA PCI Bridge (rev 05)
 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)
 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05)
 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 05)
 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 05)
 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 05)
 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 05)
 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti200] (rev a3)
 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 01)
 02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
 jeff@asterix:etc $ 

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 Jeff

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