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Rasi

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Registered: 2007-08-14

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Sound Problems on Abit Kn8-SLI

Hello there, somehow i cant get my sound to work, maybe someone can help...

first of all some info:

[root@freebox carnager]# lsmod|grep '^snd'
snd_intel8x0           29084  1
snd_ac97_codec         97828  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_oss            30336  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6656  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48432  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6796  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            38656  0
snd_pcm                68228  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              19848  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8072  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          14848  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46628  11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss

[root@freebox carnager]# ls -l /dev/snd/
insgesamt 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 26. Mai 07:19 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 26. Mai 07:19 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 26. Mai 07:45 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 26. Mai 07:19 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 26. Mai 07:19 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 26. Mai 07:19 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 26. Mai 07:19 timer

Alsamixer also finds the card just fine and all channels are unmuted.. but still i cant hear anything....
if i plugin the cable (analog) it just gives some feedback, but no sound at all...

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shazeal

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2007-06-05

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Re: Sound Problems on Abit Kn8-SLI

Pretty obvious but have you done "gpasswd -a <your username> audio" ?

Rasi

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Re: Sound Problems on Abit Kn8-SLI

yea, of course...

I guess this is no arch problem at all... because the "humming" sound, i get when plugging in the cable, is present all the time... at startup, at shutdown, BIOS, etc...

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shazeal

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2007-06-05

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Re: Sound Problems on Abit Kn8-SLI

You could try installing OSS4 instead of alsa, I know its support for HD Audio chips is supposed to be better, I put it on my GF's arch box as she was having problems with the snd_intel8x0 driver as well and havent heard her complain since

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14421

Last edited by shazeal (2008-05-26 09:20:36)

Rasi

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Re: Sound Problems on Abit Kn8-SLI

I sorted it... The board was configured to use the outputs on the front.. had to set some jumpers, now it works fine...

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