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ljukee

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-07-29

Posts: 22

ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Hi all...

I have small problem with alsaconf..

alsaconf report:

"No supported PnP or PCI card found"

I have DELL Latitude C500 laptop
Sound card: ESS Maestro3 (This soundcard is supported by ALSA)

Archlinux detect my soundcard correctly:

00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aurora Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 1998 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00b1
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 4
        Memory at 30002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256]
        Memory at feffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

modprobe snd-maestro3 doesn't work.

(Sorry for my bad english)

Any ideas ?

milan

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Registered: 2007-03-20

Posts: 38

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

What kernel version do you have installed? Please run "pacman -Qs alsa" in your console and paste output here.

Cheers!

ljukee

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-07-29

Posts: 22

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

What kernel version do you have installed? Please run "pacman -Qs alsa" in your console and paste output here.

Cheers!

Kernel: 2.6.22-ARCH

Alsa: alsa-lib 1.0.14-4
        alsa-utils 1.0.14-1

milan

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Registered: 2007-03-20

Posts: 38

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Try to install alsa-oss package and then run alsaconf.

Cheers!

ljukee

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-07-29

Posts: 22

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Try to install alsa-oss package and then run alsaconf.

Cheers!

No effect....

milan

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Registered: 2007-03-20

Posts: 38

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Damn! I've taken look at alsa-project.org and they mentioned there that alsa-oss should be installed before detecting the card. But there must be a way...

ljukee

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-07-29

Posts: 22

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Information about soundcard from dell.com

Audio type    Sound Blaster (software emulation-capable)
Audio controller    ESS Maestro 3I
Stereo conversion    16 bit (analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog)
Interfaces:

Internal    PCI bus/AC97

External    microphone-in minijack;
headphones/speakers minijack
Speakers    two 4-ohm speakers
Internal speaker amplifier    1-W (minimum) to 1.5-W (maximum) channel into 4-ohms stereo
Controls    volume can be controlled through key combinations, application program menus, or the Speaker window in the Dell Control Center (Windows 95 only)

I there any possible way how to manually instal driver for this card? Card detecting itself as "Aurora technologies" instead of "ESS Mastro3i"

milan

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Registered: 2007-03-20

Posts: 38

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Did you try any live distro? If you did, what were the results: did your sound card work? If you take a look at www.auroratech.com , you won't find any detail about sound cards (at least I haven't find any).

Cheers!

Last edited by milan (2007-07-30 19:10:29)

PCalitrack

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Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 2

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Did you remember to add "alsa" to your modules list in /etc/rc.conf?

tandycorp

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Registered: 2007-07-01

Posts: 65

Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

Did you remember to add "alsa" to your modules list in /etc/rc.conf?

small correction: always use "@alsa" so it will run in background

Last edited by tandycorp (2007-08-03 03:34:04)

EricNeon

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From: Shanghai,China

Registered: 2006-02-08

Posts: 13

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Re: ALSA: Problem with sound card detection

I had installed a new archlinux , and also have this Error.
[root@myhost eric]# alsamixer
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory
[root@myhost eric]# ls /dev/snd
controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D1c  pcmC0D3c  pcmC1D0c  seq
controlC1  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D2c  pcmC0D4p  pcmC1D0p  timer
[root@myhost eric]# lsmod |grep snd
snd_seq_oss            29312  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46672  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6924  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            38560  0
snd_mixer_oss          14592  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           28700  1
snd_intel8x0m          14092  0
snd_ac97_codec         95780  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
ac97_bus                2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                69124  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19204  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    44644  10 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6496  2 snd
snd_page_alloc          7816  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm

[root@myhost eric]# /etc/rc.d/alsa restart
:: Saving ALSA Levels                                                    [BUSY] ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
/usr/sbin/alsactl: get_controls:533: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory
                                                                         [FAIL]
:: Restoring ALSA Levels                                                 [BUSY] ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
/usr/sbin/alsactl: set_controls:1179: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory
                                                                         [FAIL]

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