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DrZaius

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Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 193

Random sound failure using Chaintech AV-710

I have a Chaintech AV-710 PCI sound card.  Several times a week my desktop boots up with no sound until I run the following:

# /etc/rc.d/alsa stop
# rmmod snd_ice1724
# modprobe snd_ice1724
# /etc/rc.d/alsa start

I don't see any relevent errors in any logs other than dmesg:

ICE1724 0000:03:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ice1724: Invalid EEPROM version 1

lspci -vvv

03:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller (rev 01)
    Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. Albatron PX865PE 7.1
    Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 32
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
    Region 0: I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
    Region 1: I/O ports at b800 [size=128]
    Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 1
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
        Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Kernel driver in use: ICE1724
    Kernel modules: snd-ice1724

/etc/rc.conf

MODULES=(e1000 ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-mpu401-uart snd-ak4114 snd-ak4xxx-adda snd-pt2258 snd-i2c snd-ac97-codec snd-ice1724 snd-ice17xx-ak4xxx soundcore fuse !pcspkr !snd_pcsp vboxdrv vboxnetflt)

/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf

alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1724
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ice1724

lsmod | grep snd

snd_ice1724           101340  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         7524  0 
snd_rawmidi            21824  2 snd_ice1724,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx      3396  1 snd_ice1724
snd_ac97_codec        106088  1 snd_ice1724
snd_ak4xxx_adda         8260  2 snd_ice1724,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_ak4114              9028  1 snd_ice1724
snd_pt2258              3620  1 snd_ice1724
snd_i2c                 5220  2 snd_ice1724,snd_pt2258
snd_seq_dummy           2696  0 
snd_seq_oss            31168  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7012  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                53744  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6768  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            40352  0 
snd_pcm                73768  4 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak4114,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21068  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8812  1 snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          17540  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    58404  15 snd_ice1724,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_ak4114,snd_pt2258,snd_i2c,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               6784  1 snd
ac97_bus                1540  1 snd_ac97_codec

Has anyone else experienced this?  What would cause this issue?

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: Random sound failure using Chaintech AV-710

IS it a problem with alsa or oss/pulseaudio too? Did You follow the archwiki related sites? Why do you start at bootup oss drivers? Btw Is alsa daemon run automatically at startup ?

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DrZaius

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Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 193

Re: Random sound failure using Chaintech AV-710

Thanks for the reply.  I cleared out all that ancient smeg from my MODULES in rc.conf and so far I haven't encountered any problems.  Yes, alsa was listed in DAEMONS.