Still not answered: intel i810 onboard audio problems

Hello,

My issue is very similar to what many people have posted problems about on this board. I have tried every solution thus far and still have not been able to get my sound card to work.

I am running a Dell Dimension 4500 with the Intel onboard sound chip, and for whatever reason, the card can be detected, but it will not produce sounds.

I have tried 'knoppix alsa' cheatcode as well as 'knoppix xmodule-fbdev alsa' and the alsa driver loads, but there still is no sound.

the boot-up error message reads somethign about cannot find module 'sound-slot-0' and 'sound-service-0'

no, the system sound is not muted, and yes, i am part of the 'audio' group.

i have tried all sorts of modprobes, modconfs, and insmods, none work. when I try to insmod the i810_audio.o module, i get the error message:
i810_audio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_probe_codec
i810_audio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_set_dac_rate
i810_audio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_set_adc_rate

when i run sndconfig, it locates my PCI sound card, Model: Intel Corp. 182801DB AC'97 Audio, but when it tries to play the test sound, i get the error messages:

/lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: ?
? init_module: No such device ?
? /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod ?
? /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o failed ?
? /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: insmod ?
? sound-slot-0 failed

the seemingly relevent sections of dmesg show:

Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI IS
APNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
i810_rng hardware driver 0.9.8 loaded
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.0
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xd800, 00:20:78:1C:57:D4, IRQ 11.
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 02:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.1
tulip1: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
tulip1: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
tulip1: Index #1 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip1: Index #2 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
tulip1: Index #3 - Media 10baseT-FDX (#4) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) bloc
k.
tulip1: Index #4 - Media 100baseTx-FDX (#5) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) bl
ock.
tulip1: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
eth1: Davicom DM9102/DM9102A rev 49 at 0xd400, 00:08:A1:05:12:C3, IRQ 9.
dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x1c17f305 signature2 0xe67dbb3b sector=21149.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:02.
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x1c17f305 signature2 0xe67dbb3b sector=21149.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:02.
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/W MODULE]
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xc00b6600 sector=1.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:41.
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xc00b6600 sector=1.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:41.
apm: BIOS not found.
eth1: Setting half-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 0021.
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 15:49:30 Mar 26 2003
SCSI cdrom error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 28000000
Info fld=0x15946, Current sd0b:00: sense key Hardware Error
I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 353560

I have been using the 4/10 release, and am now running the 4/18 version (booting from CD), both have the same errors. both of the ISOs passed md5sum check and both work on my laptop computer just fine. i know that the above dmesg made reference to a CD read error, but then this would not explain why it did not work in the previous version, which did not have any of those errors.

is there anything else that i have not tried that might work (besides buying another soundcard/ hdd install)?

thanks,

mike

Do you have legacy support disabled in bios?

On both my hewlett packard and compaq rigs I must have legacy support set to "no" in order to have sound support.

edit* and still try knoppix alsa on boot

Strange, I have sound on my Dell Inspiron which also use the Intel chipset(including sound).

The only problem is that I wanted to test the 'read the web page' feature in Konquerer which I think is cool and innovative but it all went wrong. Anyone tries it ?

hey, i tried the disable legacy support in the bios and it worked! i got sound out of hte speakers... kind of


now my problem is that with the audio turned to full blast i can barely hear anythign at all and its all grainy...


any quick fixes? thanks (in advance!)

-T

find the volume control in kde

ok, perhaps I was unclear.....

WITH the volume in KDE turned all the way up, EVERYTHING unmuted from kmix and aumix, AND my speaker volume turned all the way up on my receiver, all I hear is faint music and even the faint music is grainy and crackly.


any thoughts?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by talismand

ok, perhaps I was unclear.....

WITH the volume in KDE turned all the way up, EVERYTHING unmuted from kmix and aumix, AND my speaker volume turned all the way up on my receiver, all I hear is faint music and even the faint music is grainy and crackly.


any thoughts?

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I am having the same exact problem with CMedia 8738 onboard sound card. Volume is all cranked up, but can barley hear it. I found that alsa has a console based volume control. This is the site with commands. I will try this when I get home.

http://tldp.org/LDP/linuxcookbook/html/cookbook_27.html

This exact same problem is happening with my i845. At first I thought the surround mode was on, so I installed ALSA and tried turning it off but it didn't help. The sound is extremely faint, and because the PCM is jacked all the way up on the mixer, the quality sucks.

This isn't just in knoppix, my rh9 box does it too...

before anyone even tries: *yes the mixer is up *all the *way***. Everything is completely maxxed out on the mixer and there are no other knobs i can turn up. That's on all the OSS mixers and alsamixer.

My Dell Optiplex GX270 has the same intel integrated audio chip set problem. Anyone find a fix yet?

TIA,

Quote:

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Originally Posted by fury

This exact same problem is happening with my i845. At first I thought the surround mode was on, so I installed ALSA and tried turning it off but it didn't help. The sound is extremely faint, and because the PCM is jacked all the way up on the mixer, the quality sucks.

This isn't just in knoppix, my rh9 box does it too...

before anyone even tries: *yes the mixer is up *all the *way***. Everything is completely maxxed out on the mixer and there are no other knobs i can turn up. That's on all the OSS mixers and alsamixer.

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I did have this problem too. The sound was fainted. But I think I solved this by moving the slider of the PCM volume a bit down. May be that'll help. I am not sure if it was PCM, but in any case try this with all of 'em that are maxed out by default ;-).

I have to use this boot string:

knoppix vga=normal screen=1024x768 xvrefresh=60

to get video to work right. 2003.0905 fixed my sound!

Regards,

I have the ASUS p4pe board, with integrated I850 chipset.
I use the SPdiff output for my speaker system. Where can i change those settings? The board is being found by the system.
But if i want to start aRts it says something about using the NULL: device.
Please help!