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Manifest0

Member

Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 15

[solved] Sound problems with Intel 82801DB-ICH4

Greetings!

I followed the wiki and i can't get sound in my laptop. I don't know why.
Can somebody help me?
When i run mplayer it get stuck with an:

AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  -0.0 (unknown) of 799.0 (13:19.0) ??,?%

This output is the same with -ao alsa or with -ao oss

The alsa daemon is running.

The following command doesn't produce any sound:

speaker-test -c2 -Ddefault -t wav -l1

Some usefull info:

$ cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [I82801DBICH4   ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
                      Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with VIA1612A at irq 9

# pacman -Qs alsa

local/alsa-lib 1.0.16-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-oss 1.0.15-1
    OSS compatibility library
local/alsa-plugins 1.0.16-1
    Extra alsa plugins
local/alsa-utils 1.0.15-2
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1
    A heavily multi-threaded PCM player that tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit.
local/gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.15-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)

Loaded Modules:

snd_intel8x0m          13964  0 
snd_seq_oss            29440  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                47056  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6924  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_intel8x0           28572  0 
snd_pcm_oss            37024  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14464  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ac97_codec         95268  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                68996  4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19204  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    44772  10 snd_intel8x0m,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc          8072  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

The devices:

prompt# ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 Mar 16 13:41 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 Mar 16 20:51 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 Mar 16 20:40 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 Mar 16 13:41 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 26 Mar 16 13:41 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 27 Mar 16 13:41 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 20 Mar 16 13:41 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 Mar 16 13:41 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Mar 16 13:41 timer

My rc.conf file

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

LOCALE="pt_PT.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Lisbon"
KEYMAP="pt-latin9"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"

MOD_BLACKLIST=(!snd-intel8x0m)

MODULES=(8139too mii ipw2200 acpi_cpufreq thermal battery button fan ac processor fuse snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss) 

USELVM="no"


HOSTNAME="laptop"

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0=""
INTERFACES=(lo)

gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng acpid crond network portmap alsa fam dbus hal iptables cpufreq slim)


# End of file

Any suggestion?

Best regards!

Manifest0

Last edited by Manifest0 (2008-03-17 00:05:17)

Manifest0

Member

Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 15

Re: [solved] Sound problems with Intel 82801DB-ICH4

Ok. I found the problem.

I must load snd-intel8x0m instead of snd-intel8x0.

Maybe the module has changed with some update, because it used to work with snd-intel8x0.

Best regards,
Manifest0

Manifest0

Member

Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 15

Re: [solved] Sound problems with Intel 82801DB-ICH4

After a couple of days doing fine, today i needed to change the modules again!
Now i load snd-intel8x0 and blacklisted snd-intel8x0m. What's going on?

i hope this may be usefull to someone...

Best regards,
Manifest0