Sound card problem

[lazzarig]

hi
My laptop(clevo-kapok) works fine with knoppyx,also battery monitoring is ok but i have not sound.
When i launch sndconfig i receive this message:

PCI sound card was found in your
system. The details are:
Model: Intel Corporation|82440MX
AC97 Audio Controller
The Intel Corporation|82440MX AC97 Audio
Controller is not currently supported.
How can i solve the problem?
thank
Giorgio Lazzari

With Mepis(debian -based distro) the sound is ok (i810_audio driver recognized) but battery level monitor not works :-((

[windos_no_thanks]

You probably need an ACPI kernel to get the sound working. I'm on my second Clevo laptop, both it and the previous one refused to assign an interrupt line to the sound chip without ACPI support in the kernel.
Should be possible to determine that if you post the output of "lspci -v"
The previous one I had showed the same problem with the battery monitor as you are seeing, worked with APM but not with ACPI. In my case it could have been that the kernel (and KDE) I was using in the previous one was older so I'm not sure if it still is a problem.

[lazzarig]

thank for your answer
Here the output of lspci -v

Giorgio Lazzari


00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650 Host (rev 01)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 99
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: ec100000-ec1fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at ec001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 128
I/O ports at 1000 [size=16]

00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 4201
Flags: medium devsel
I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1080 [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: medium devsel
I/O ports at 1c00 [disabled] [size=256]
I/O ports at 1800 [disabled] [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at ec002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at ec002800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=2K]
Memory at ec004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS650/651/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 5
BIST result: 00
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at ec100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0

root@laptop:~#

[windos_no_thanks]

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 2263
Flags: medium devsel
I/O ports at 1c00 [disabled] [size=256]
I/O ports at 1800 [disabled] [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2


Yep, looks like it hasn't been assigned any resources, after switching to an ACPI aware
kernel my corresponding entry looks like this:

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 0403
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 173, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

If you have installed / are going to install to HD it is no big deal, just recompile the kernel with APM support disabled and ACPI enabled.
If you want the sound to work from the live CD you need to do a remaster (or download someone else's ACPI aware remastered iso, there are several to chose from)

[lazzarig]

windos?no?thanks wrote

If you have installed / are going to install to HD it is no big deal, just recompile the kernel with APM support disabled and ACPI enabled.
If you want the sound to work from the live CD you need to do a remaster (or download someone else's ACPI aware remastered iso, there are several to chose from
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if i go to /usr/linux and i launch make menuconfig there is no action

Wich steps do i folow to recompile without APM support .

thank

Giorgio

[windos_no_thanks]

if i go to /usr/linux and i launch make menuconfig there is no action

Wich steps do i folow to recompile without APM support .

Either install the debian package (can't remember the details, haven't done that myself)
or get a new kernel tarball directly from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2
and unpack it (tar -xjf linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2) in /usr/src, then cd into the new directory (linux-2.4.24) and read the README file. (when you do the "make menuconfig" part make sure APM is not selected and ACPI is, also enable the sub-options below ACPI except the vendor specific stuff)

[lazzarig]

thank for your suggestion.
I downloaded and installed kernel 2.6.2 recompiled without APM support.
Now sound is ok but klaptop is disappeared from my laptop and it is impossible monitor battery status.
Anyway shutdown of laptop is ok.
If i launch klaptop the errormessage says that there is a partial installation
of ACPI but i selected all the items that you suggested.
thanks

Giorgio Lazzari

[windos_no_thanks]

If i launch klaptop the errormessage says that there is a partial installation
of ACPI but i selected all the items that you suggested.

I don't have any experience with 2.6.x kernels but battery monitoring works for me on a 2.4.23 kernel.

[lazzarig]

I wil try it .
thank

giorgio Lazzari