Getting SiS7012/7018 Sound working in ML9/8.2

[ral]

Sound setup will detect the right chipset (7012/7018) but sound will still not work.

 

Browse to /etc/modules.conf and you will see the line:

 

alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-intel-8x0

xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx

 

The xxxx is an entry detailing out the rest of the sound configuration. Comment out both these lines and add a new entry:

 

# alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-intel-8x0

# xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx

alias sound i810audio

 

Sound will now work.

 

Commenting out basically makes the system not read the lines. It is safer to comment out than delete in case you want to revert to your prior configuration.

[DragonMage]

I think that tip is only for SIS 7012 chipset only. I have a SIS 7018 chipset audio and it uses snd-trident module instead of i810audio module.

[ral]

Sorry about that. You could be right. I actually only tried this on a 7012, altough the instructions are used to get the 7012 working were written for the 7018 chipset.

[Guest Phat Penguin]

I was given an old P4 1.7 celeron PC the other day ..... the only thing really salvagable was the chip, 512mb RAM and case .... so dropped in a cheap ECS all-onboard mainboard and fired it up .... no sound !! SiS7012 you guessed it ... well dropped in Harddrake (9.1) and did a detect on the spec's mentioned here and all is well and noisy !!!

 

If I ran sndconfig I too was getting the "No support yet" info .... wrong !!! .... have the noise to prove it.

 

For those running 9.1 just go to Harddrake and select the "snd-card-intel-8x0" option for the 7012 sound card and let the computer do the rest....

 

Thanks guys, this site rocks.

[DragonMage]

I think sndconfig is so antiquated right now, it's only good for older ISA based sound cards. I never use sndconfig since RedHat 6.0.