Hardware Support is Lacking

[luther]

ATT: Hardware & Booting

Knoppix 703 LiveCD boots on this hp desktop pavilion, but has NO sound support. Relevant hardware information:

256MB RAM
Rage PRO Turbo AGP 2X
Creative Labs-CT4520-sound blaster 16-bit ISA sound card

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
    Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
    Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
    Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
    I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
    Memory behind bridge: f4100000-f5ffffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 10000000-100fffff

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
    [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
    [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
    [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
    [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
    I/O ports at 1050 [size=16]
    Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:07.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
    I/O ports at 1060 [size=32]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
    Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
    Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
    I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
    Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: rtl8180

00:0b.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
    Subsystem: First International Computer, Inc. VA-502 Mainboard
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
    I/O ports at 1080 [size=32]
    Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:0b.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
    Subsystem: First International Computer, Inc. VA-502 Mainboard
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
    I/O ports at 10a0 [size=32]
    Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:0b.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
    Subsystem: First International Computer, Inc. Device 1234
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
    Memory at f4000400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X
    Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
    Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
    Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at 10000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$

Can this missing sound problem be fixed?

THX
luther

[klaus2008]

I think you have got a SoundBlaster AWE64 soundcard. Therefore I would try to load the kernel module snd-sbawe.

sudo modprobe snd-sbawe

The command

cat /proc/asound/cards

should show your soundcard if the right kernel module has been loaded.

[luther]

I would try to load the kernel module snd-sbawe.

Thanks klaus2008!

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo modprobe snd-sbawe
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [S16            ]:
 SB AWE - Sound Blaster 16
 Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&5
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$

[luther]

I think you have got a SoundBlaster AWE64 soundcard. Therefore I would try to load the kernel module snd-sbawe.

sudo modprobe snd-sbawe

Hi,
Q: How can this kernel module survive a reboot? It is functional and a startup script is needed, that works!

luther

[klaus2008]

Hi luther,

I would add the name of the module to the configuration file /etc/modules.

[luther]

I would add the name of the module to the configuration file /etc/modules.

Hi,
Adding the module name 'snd-sbawe' to referenced cfg file on Knoppix 5.1.1 LiveUSB had NO effect,
neither did 'sudo modprobe snd-sbawe', which does enable sound, when used on CLI.

Please HELP!

luther