SIS SI7012 -No Audio-

[ShineDesign]

Hello all,

 

I just put a new system together which has the SIS SI7012 sound card built onboard. Alsaconf detects the sound card and the mixer shows everything should be fine, however no sound will come out. Anybody know of any issues with Mandrake 10.0 and this sound card? I've got the sound system turned on and set to ALSA, and the ALSA service is running as well. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 

BTW: It's using the snd-Intel8x0 driver

 

Thanks

[devries]

Use the Mandrake tools to setup the soundcard. They will detect if some things are missing and auto install them. If you get errors when you setup that card post 'm.

[DragonMage]

There was a thread similar to this a few days back. It is solved by selecting one of the alternate driver (i810-audio I think). Try it, maybe it works.

[ShineDesign]

Use the Mandrake tools to setup the soundcard. They will detect if some things are missing and auto install them. If you get errors when you setup that card post 'm.

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Thanks for the reply.

 

I already have set up the soundcard with alsaconf, and made sure it's not muted with alsamixer. I looked in the hardward profile for my sound card in MCC as well, all looks fine. No errors have ever come up. Still no sound though :/

[ShineDesign]

There was a thread similar to this a few days back. It is solved by selecting one of the alternate driver (i810-audio I think). Try it, maybe it works.

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I tried that too, no such luck. Thanks though

[devries]

Mandrake has it's own tools to setup sound. Because they are integrated with urpmi they work better than alsaconf.. If you use Mandrake you should use the MCC and not alsaconf.

[ShineDesign]

Mandrake has it's own tools to setup sound. Because they are integrated with urpmi they work better than alsaconf.. If you use Mandrake you should use the MCC and not alsaconf.

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Besides making sure everything is correct in the sound card area of hardware, where else in MCC do I go to set it up?

[devries]

Click run config tool and select the module (driver) you want to use. That's it. Make sure alsa is running (system, services). Stop/start it to be sure. Make sure every sound app is closed while you are doing this, including apps like kmix in the systray. If you don't get errors it is a mixer problem. Open alsamixer, mute everything and start opening up channels. Probably the default 'main' channel isn't connected to your speakers (so you could try switching the jack).

[ShineDesign]

Thanks for the reply,

 

I've done all that already :( The speakers are plugged in correctly, Alsa is running fine, and the mixer is set correctly.

[ShineDesign]

Oh wow, there is an error message

 

When loading alsamixer, it now says:

 

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such device

 

 

and when I loaded it last time, I saw on the still-open command window that it couldn't find the sound card to load the mixer to.

[ShineDesign]

Nevermind, it's not giving an error anymore. I'll just re-install my sound blaster card and disable the onboard audio through the bios. I can't get system sounds or kopete sounds this way, but at least it plays music etc..

[ShineDesign]

Alright, with the SB Live 5.1 card installled and the onboard sound disabled, all sounds -except- for kopete work (from what I can tell). Kopete will play sounds when I click the "test sound" button in the options dialogue, but they won't actually play in the application. Any ideas?