Mandriva Failed to Detect Sound Card

[Guest psue99]

Hi,

 

I have an old PII (AOpen; 384 MB RAM)) box that I decided to load Linux on. I tried Xandros OCE 3.0.2 and I didn't get very far into the Install before it failed. Then I treid MEPIS 6.0, but when I tried playing an audio CD, the drive started making awful noises.

I decided to give Mandriva a try, so I downloaded Mandriva One 2006.

 

The install went seamlessly. But when I tried to play an Audio CD, nothing happens when I click play.

 

Then I tried playing an MP3 file that I downloaded off the Net; Amarok briefly starts up then vanishes (teh MP3 file is fine 'cause it works on my other Linux box as wel las on Windows).

 

I noticed in the Mandriva Linux Control Center that no sound card is listed. My card is Sound Blaster 16.

 

How can I get Mandriva torecognzie my sound card?

 

I'm a bit discouraged .... if I can't get this resolved, I'll try another distro I guess :(

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[Guest psue99]

Oh, here's some more info:

 

[paul@linus ~]$ lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)

00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)

00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)

00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)

00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25)

00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo (rev 02)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)

[paul@linus ~]$ uname -r

2.6.12-19mdk-i586-up-1GB

[paul@linus ~]$ rpm -qa| grep -i kernel

kernel-i586-up-1GB-2.6.12.19mdk-1-1mdk

unionfs-kernel-2.6.12-19mdk-i586-up-1GB-1.1.1.1.20060117.1mdk-1mdk

[paul@linus ~]$ cd /usr/src

[paul@linus src]$ ls

RPM/ unionfs-1.1.1.1.20060117.1mdk/

[paul@linus src]$ rpm -qa| grep -i alsa

 

[paul@linus src]$ modinfo soundcore

bash: modinfo: command not found

[paul@linus src]$ su -

Password:

[root@linus ~]# modinfo soundcore

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.12-19mdk-i586-up-1GB/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko.gz

description: Core sound module

author: Alan Cox

license: GPL

alias: char-major-14-*

vermagic: 2.6.12-19mdk-i586-up-1GB 586 gcc-4.0

depends:

[Lexicon]

Insert one line to /etc/modprobe.preload

 

snd-sb16 irq=5 io=0x220

 

Before you maybe probe

 

modprobe snd-sb16 irq=5 io=0x220

modprobe snd-pcm-oss

modprobe snd-oss-mixer

 

.....Lex

[Guest psue99]

Hi Lex,

 

This is what I get:

 

[root@linus alsa-driver-1.0.9]# modprobe snd-sb16 irq=5 io=0x220

FATAL: Error inserting snd-sb16 (/lib/modules/2.6.12-19mdk-i586-up-1GB/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb16.ko.gz): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

[root@linus alsa-driver-1.0.9]# dmesg | tail

...

snd_sb16: Unknown parameter `io'

 

Any further suggestions?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[Lexicon]

Yes, Any further suggestions?

 

Insert one line to /etc/modprobe.preload

 

snd-sb16 irq=5 io=0x220

 

Ane reboot system (chck resources io=xx)

 

This is bug e.g.

Error inserting snd-sb16 (/lib/modules/2.6.14-0.mm.7mdk/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb16.ko.gz): No such device

 

....Lex

Edited August 31, 2006 by Lexicon

[ianw1974]

Have you tried alsaconf to configure it? Do this:

 

su (enter root password when prompted)
alsaconf

 

if not installed, install with:

 

urpmi alsaconf

 

and then go from there. It should do all of the sound config for you including the modprobe.conf stuff.

[Lexicon]

Yes look, you have ISA card, before check BIOS setttins, enable ACPI for acpi enable instert in line

append="resume=/dev/hdaX splash=silent acpi=force " ###where X = SWAP partition

type

lilo

peres ENTER and reboot system

....Lex

Edited August 31, 2006 by Lexicon