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#1 2009-02-06 02:33:27

Declan
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Registered: 2009-02-06
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Odd new error

Hi everyone,

I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong forum. When I boot up, when I'm getting the output telling me about all the modules and such that are loaded, recently I've gotten a message saying that it has detected some unknown hardware, and it says [FAIL] at the right, where things normally say [PASS] or whatever. The error message is "Unkown hardware: 'HDA-Intel' 'SigmaTel STAC9205' 'HDA:034 HDA:14<more numbers> ' '0x1028' '0x01fe' Hardware is initialized using a guess method"...does anyone have any idea what that means?

Otherwise, it's working fine. However, I think right around the same time a weird beep started. It's not the system beep, it's a sharper and nastier one that goes through the computer speakers and any external speakers plugged in. It always does it when I get to the gdm login screen. I'm not sure if they are related but it seems like it might be.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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#2 2009-02-08 22:06:30

Ink-Jet
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From: London
Registered: 2008-03-27
Posts: 64
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Re: Odd new error

I have this problem too, except for me, it's a slightly different error message:

Unknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "VIA VIA VT1708" "HDA:11061708,15580663,00100700 HDA:10573055,10573055,00100700" "0x1106" "0x3288"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method

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#3 2009-02-09 01:22:14

fphillips
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From: Austin, TX
Registered: 2009-01-24
Posts: 202

Re: Odd new error

That is your soundcard, the snd-hda-intel kernel module. Maybe one of the module parameters needs to be specified. See modinfo -p snd-hda-intel.

If sound is working, then you can probably ignore it.

Last edited by fphillips (2009-02-09 01:23:02)

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#4 2009-02-10 19:42:14

mjs483
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Registered: 2008-09-08
Posts: 6

Re: Odd new error

I too have this problem on a Dell Latitude D630 laptop. I tried the modinfo but I'm not familiar with any of the parameters it lists. Again, sound is working but the startup error is annoying.

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#5 2009-02-10 19:50:56

mjs483
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Registered: 2008-09-08
Posts: 6

Re: Odd new error

Ok after some more digging found the following fix:

Just manually run as root (or sudo):

$ /etc/rc.d/alsa stop

Alsa starts up fine on the next reboot.

Found that here:
http://www.linux-archive.org/archlinux- … 8-1-a.html

Please mark thread as SOLVED if this works for you too.

Last edited by mjs483 (2009-02-10 19:53:10)

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