| Stephen Gran on Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:50:24 -0500 |
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:05:49PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson said: > 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 $ > > ) The Intel onboard sound has apparenly had some sampling issues in it's driver code, which is no doubt what you mean about the chipmunks (^: - there is some way to downsample the sound rate to make it act normally, but it's not worth it if you have decent sound card handy. Do you have the driver the new card loaded (lsmod)? I think you can disable the onboard sound in the BIOS, usually, but it really shoudn't be a problem - just make sure you keep the Intel modules unloaded, and only load the ones for the sb card - linux won't care that there's physically more than one in the box. After the module/hardware issues have been worked out, we'll see about soundserver stuff (arts vs esd & so forth). I've never really played much with soundconfig, so I don't know that I can help you much there - it's a redhat/ALSA thing, isn't it? If so, I'm going to be out of ideas soon - I know OSS better. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | An intellectual is someone whose mind | | steve@lobefin.net | watches itself. -- Albert Camus | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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