Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide

[pinguinus]

A nice guide, thank you.

By the way, what is the difference between, say, snd-ymfpci and snd_ymfpci or do they mean and work the same? (Sometimes those modules are written with "_" sometimes with "-" after snd). Does it matter if I do
sudo modprobe snd-
(or)
sudo modprobe snd_

[pinguinus]

I wonder what's my problem with my Hoontech YMF-754 soundcard? The soundcard worked without a problem in Ubuntu Breezy (etc.) but I've not managed to get it working in Dapper yet. Somewhere I read that there might be some small bug in Dapper sound?

Some information:
#lspci -v

0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller]
Subsystem: Yamaha Corporation DS-XG PCI Audio Codec
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
Memory at dfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
I/O ports at e800 [size=64]
I/O ports at e400 [size=4]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

#cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_ymfpci

#aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: YMF754 [Yamaha DS-XG (YMF754)], device 0: YMFPCI [YMFPCI]
Subdevices: 31/32
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
Subdevice #8: subdevice #8
Subdevice #9: subdevice #9
Subdevice #10: subdevice #10
Subdevice #11: subdevice #11
Subdevice #12: subdevice #12
Subdevice #13: subdevice #13
Subdevice #14: subdevice #14
Subdevice #15: subdevice #15
Subdevice #16: subdevice #16
Subdevice #17: subdevice #17
Subdevice #18: subdevice #18
Subdevice #19: subdevice #19
Subdevice #20: subdevice #20
Subdevice #21: subdevice #21
Subdevice #22: subdevice #22
Subdevice #23: subdevice #23
Subdevice #24: subdevice #24
Subdevice #25: subdevice #25
Subdevice #26: subdevice #26
Subdevice #27: subdevice #27
Subdevice #28: subdevice #28
Subdevice #29: subdevice #29
Subdevice #30: subdevice #30
Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 0: YMF754 [Yamaha DS-XG (YMF754)], device 1: YMFPCI - IEC958 [YMFPCI - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: YMF754 [Yamaha DS-XG (YMF754)], device 2: YMFPCI - Rear [YMFPCI - Rear PCM]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I've unmuted all the channels in alsamixer (sudo alsamixer) and that was usually all I needed to do (in Breezy etc.) to get my sound working, including the digital output - but no joy yet.

I also added (both or the other):
snd-ymfpci
snd_ymfpci
at the end of my /etc/modules file but that doesn't seem to help either.

What's the problem Dapper is having with my soundcard? Everything works flawlessly in Breezy or in Debian Sarge, or in MS Windows too.

[ubuntu_demon]

I've linked to this guide on my blog :
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com

[LordRaiden]

pinguinus - the dash/underscore thing is sort of weird to understand, but this is what I have been seeing. When loading the modules using modprobe, the dash is used. When displaying, the underscore is used. So for all intensive purposes, use the dash since it matters for input.

Regarding your soundcard, it seems installed so that does not seem like an issue.
Paste in the results of

dmesg

in a code box, and I'll see if anything is there.



ubuntu_demon - thank for the link in your blog, this page is really starting to get a lot of views.

[pinguinus]

Thanks LordRaiden. By the way, I haven't yet tried the alsa-source method of your guide - because previously that was not needed. I just recently installed Ubuntu Dapper to this machine. I suppose I could try alsa-source too if nothing else helps.

Here's the output from dmesg (there was quite much ethernet related stuff that I removed from the output) :

[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.15-25-k7 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 11:43:20 UTC 2006
[17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff8000 (ACPI data)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 000000002fff8000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[17179569.184000] 767MB LOWMEM available.
[17179569.184000] found SMP MP-table at 000fb880
[17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 196592
[17179569.184000]   DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000]   DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000]   Normal zone: 192496 pages, LIFO batch:31
[17179569.184000]   HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] DMI 2.3 present.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI                                   ) @ 0x000fa710
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7   0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x2fff0000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7   0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x2fff0030
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7   0x00000009 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x2fff00c0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001    VIA   VIA_K7 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[17179569.184000] Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 16
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 30000000:cec00000)
[17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists
[17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
[17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0
[17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
[17179569.184000] Detected 1100.247 MHz processor.
[17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[17179572.048000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[17179572.048000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179572.088000] Memory: 767476k/786368k available (2094k kernel code, 18256k reserved, 597k data, 332k init, 0k highmem)
[17179572.088000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[17179572.168000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2202.73 BogoMIPS (lpj=4405474)
[17179572.168000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[17179572.168000] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[17179572.168000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[17179572.168000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.168000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.168000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[17179572.168000] CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
[17179572.168000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179572.168000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[17179572.168000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[17179572.168000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[17179572.168000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[17179572.184000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[17179572.184000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[17179573.144000] Freeing initrd memory: 6760k freed
[17179573.164000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[17179573.164000] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
[17179573.164000] Total of 1 processors activated (2202.73 BogoMIPS).
[17179573.164000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[17179573.168000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[17179573.308000] Brought up 1 CPUs
[17179573.308000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[17179573.308000] EISA bus registered
[17179573.308000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[17179573.308000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb21, last bus=1
[17179573.308000] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[17179573.308000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216
[17179573.316000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[17179573.316000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[17179573.316000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[17179573.316000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[17179573.320000] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[17179573.320000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[17179573.348000] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
[17179573.348000] ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
[17179573.352000] ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
[17179573.352000] ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
[17179573.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
[17179573.352000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[17179573.352000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[17179573.360000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[17179573.360000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[17179573.360000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[17179573.360000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
[17179573.364000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[17179573.364000]   IO window: disabled.
[17179573.364000]   MEM window: dfe00000-dfefffff
[17179573.364000]   PREFETCH window: d7c00000-dfcfffff
[17179573.364000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[17179573.364000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[17179573.364000] audit(1151960590.360:1): initialized
[17179573.364000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[17179573.364000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179573.364000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[17179573.364000] io scheduler noop registered
[17179573.364000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[17179573.364000] io scheduler deadline registered
[17179573.364000] io scheduler cfq registered
[17179573.364000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[17179573.716000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[17179573.744000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[17179573.744000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[17179573.744000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179573.744000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179573.744000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[17179573.744000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179573.744000] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[17179573.748000] 00:01: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179573.748000] 00:02: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[17179573.748000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[17179573.748000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[17179573.748000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[17179573.748000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179573.748000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[17179573.748000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[17179573.748000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[17179573.776000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[17179573.784000] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[17179573.784000] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes)
[17179573.788000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes)
[17179573.788000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[17179573.788000] TCP reno registered
[17179573.788000] TCP bic registered
[17179573.788000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[17179573.788000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[17179573.788000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[17179573.788000] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[17179573.788000] ACPI wakeup devices: 
[17179573.788000] PCI0 UAR1  USB USB1 USB2  AC9  MC9 ILAN SLPB 
[17179573.792000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[17179573.792000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 332k freed
[17179573.872000] vga16fb: initializing
[17179573.872000] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[17179573.932000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
[17179573.932000] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[17179575.012000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179575.148000] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 16 throttling states)
[17179576.040000] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
[17179576.040000] PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.1, from 255 to 0
[17179576.040000] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
[17179576.040000] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179576.040000] VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
[17179576.040000]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
[17179576.040000]     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
[17179576.044000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[17179576.460000] hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive
[17179576.740000] hdb: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
[17179576.800000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[17179576.804000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[17179577.668000] hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179578.452000] hdd: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179578.512000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[17179578.528000] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[17179578.560000] hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
[17179578.560000] hda: cache flushes not supported
[17179578.560000]  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda4
[17179578.604000] hdb: max request size: 128KiB
[17179578.604000] hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
[17179578.604000] hdb: cache flushes not supported
[17179578.604000]  hdb:<6>hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
[17179578.604000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[17179578.612000] hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[17179578.620000]  hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 >
[17179579.424000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[17179579.424000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[17179579.428000] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
[17179579.428000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179579.428000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: OHCI Host Controller
[17179579.428000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[17179579.428000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: irq 169, io mem 0xdfffd000
[17179579.496000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[17179580.004000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179580.004000] hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
[17179580.520000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.1[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179580.520000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: OHCI Host Controller
[17179580.524000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[17179580.524000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: irq 177, io mem 0xdfffe000
[17179581.088000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179581.088000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179581.608000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179581.608000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.2: EHCI Host Controller
[17179581.632000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[17179581.632000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.2: irq 185, io mem 0xdffffb00
[17179581.632000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95, driver 10 Dec 2004
[17179581.636000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179581.636000] hub 3-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
[17179581.744000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.2[D] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[17179581.744000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: UHCI Host Controller
[17179581.744000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[17179581.744000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: irq 5, io base 0x0000d800
[17179581.744000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179581.744000] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179581.848000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.3[D] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[17179581.848000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: UHCI Host Controller
[17179581.848000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[17179581.848000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: irq 5, io base 0x0000dc00
[17179581.852000] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179581.852000] hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179581.956000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.4[D] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[17179581.956000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: UHCI Host Controller
[17179581.956000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
[17179581.956000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: irq 5, io base 0x0000e000
[17179581.960000] hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179581.960000] hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179582.368000] Attempting manual resume
[17179582.396000] ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[17179582.436000] ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode
[17179582.448000] ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[17179582.452000] ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)
[17179582.468000] ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
[17179583.020000] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[17179591.556000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179591.588000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[17179591.612000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[17179591.648000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[17179591.656000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[17179591.680000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
[17179591.712000] agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
[17179591.716000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
[17179591.740000] irda_init()
[17179591.740000] NET: Registered protocol family 23
[17179592.032000] Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (December 15, 2004)
[17179592.032000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179592.032000] tulip0:  MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 786d advertising 05e1.
[17179592.032000] tulip0:  MII transceiver #2 config 1000 status 7849 advertising 05e1.
[17179592.032000] tulip0:  MII transceiver #3 config 1000 status 7849 advertising 05e1.
[17179592.036000] tulip0:  MII transceiver #4 config 1000 status 7849 advertising 05e1.
[17179592.036000] eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0001ec00, 00:04:E2:3D:97:05, IRQ 185.
[17179592.092000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[17179592.092000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
[17179592.280000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[17179592.312000] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input2
[17179592.924000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[17179593.680000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[17179593.808000] Adding 746980k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:746980k
[17179593.820000] Adding 746920k swap on /dev/hdb6.  Priority:-2 extents:1 across:746920k
[17179594.184000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179594.264000] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[17179594.264000] md: bitmap version 4.39
[17179595.072000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[17179595.280000] cdrom: open failed.
[17179595.784000] cdrom: open failed.
[17179595.792000] cdrom: open failed.
[17179596.124000] 0000:00:07.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xfc664010 CSR6 0xff972113)
[17179596.124000] eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.
[17179640.400000] ReiserFS: hda4: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[17179642.136000] ReiserFS: hda4: using ordered data mode
[17179642.156000] ReiserFS: hda4: journal params: device hda4, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[17179642.160000] ReiserFS: hda4: checking transaction log (hda4)
[17179642.196000] ReiserFS: hda4: Using r5 hash to sort names
[17179642.284000] NTFS driver 2.1.25 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[17179642.356000] NTFS volume version 3.0.
[17179642.580000] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
[17179642.580000] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
[17179642.604000] XFS mounting filesystem hdb9
[17179642.692000] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hdb9
[17179642.716000] XFS mounting filesystem hda6
[17179642.792000] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hda6
[17179642.828000] XFS mounting filesystem hdb8
[17179642.936000] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hdb8
[17179642.984000] XFS mounting filesystem hda7
[17179643.100000] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hda7
[17179643.112000] XFS mounting filesystem hdb7
[17179643.212000] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hdb7
[17179644.024000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
[17179644.060000] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[17179644.064000] ip_conntrack version 2.4 (6143 buckets, 49144 max) - 232 bytes per conntrack
[17179648.964000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179648.988000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179648.988000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17179648.988000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[17179649.080000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179654.252000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[17179654.600000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179654.600000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179658.892000] mtx: module license 'Copyright (c) 2002, 2004, Matrox Graphics Inc.' taints kernel.
[17179658.900000] [mtx] MTX driver v1.4.3
[17179658.900000] [mtx] Allocated a MTX agp driver strucure
[17179658.900000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179658.900000] [mtx] 0x2537(sub:0xffffffff) board found at 01:00.0
[17179659.260000] [mtx] Registers at 0xdfefe000, size: 8K, flags: 512, knl_addr: 0xf0dd4000
[17179659.260000] [mtx] Framebuffer at 0xd8000000, size: 64M, flags: 4616, knl_addr: 0x00000000, write-combining: YES
[17179659.260000] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[17179659.260000] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
[17179659.260000] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
[17179659.260000] [mtx] AGP aperture at 0xe0000000, size: 65536K, rate: 1X, write-combining: YES
[17179659.260000] [mtx] Busmastering flags:
[17179659.260000] [mtx]   Board type detected: AGP
[17179659.260000] [mtx]   Chipset 0x2537:0x102b was detected
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   AGP chipset was detected
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   PCI transfers available for read write
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   AGP transfers available
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   AGP serialize is used
[17179659.264000] [mtx] Parhelia patches applied: PowerM Cap66Mhz CompBypass 
[17179659.264000] [mtx] Registers at 0xdfefe000, size: 8K, flags: 512, knl_addr: 0xf0dd4000
[17179659.264000] [mtx] Framebuffer at 0xd8000000, size: 64M, flags: 4616, knl_addr: 0x00000000, write-combining: YES
[17179659.264000] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[17179659.264000] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
[17179659.264000] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
[17179659.264000] [mtx] AGP aperture at 0xe0000000, size: 65536K, rate: 1X, write-combining: YES
[17179659.264000] [mtx] Busmastering flags:
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   Board type detected: AGP
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   Chipset 0x2537:0x102b was detected
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   AGP chipset was detected
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   PCI transfers available for read write
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   AGP transfers available
[17179659.264000] [mtx]   AGP serialize is used
[17179659.264000] [mtx] Parhelia patches applied: PowerM Cap66Mhz CompBypass 
[17179662.996000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
[17179662.996000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[17179662.996000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[17179662.996000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[17179663.056000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[17179663.056000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[17179663.060000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[17179663.060000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[17179663.060000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7

[LordRaiden]

Seems ok. No sound errors as far as I can see. Yes, you could try the alsa-source method as well.

[Jvaldezjr]

Just wanted to update you and tell you that your method has worked for me. I only have one more problem, but it has to do with input jacks on my onboard sound, so I'll ask in another thread since my hardware is detected, and the modules are loading correctly and working as it is supposed to.

Thanks for the guide, this rocks.

[LordRaiden]

Jvaldezjr - Thanks for the comments, and I'm glad it worked for you. I'll put input down as an Important To-do item. Skype and Teamspeak are getting popular especially with Linux clients, so I should try to cover it. However, if you find something first, I'd like to include in the guide eventually giving the appropriate credit to all involved.


UPDATE - added a MIDI guide. Try it if you are interested. I have no idea of how to actually configure the MIDI device itself though (i.e. keyboard, joystick)

[pinguinus]

Ok, I got my sound card problem, described above, solved. I did try alsa-source too (and learned new things in the process), but actually the solution was much simpler: heh.., I just needed to mute one certain channel in alsamixer... I could have sweared that I knew which alsamixer settings I had used before and that worked... But maybe I remembered wrong, or maybe that was some new setting there I hadn't sen before..?? Anyway, I tried several alsamixer settings and found the one that worked for me, and now everything works perfectly again, also the digital output...

[LordRaiden]

Ok, I got my sound card problem, described above, solved. I did try alsa-source too (and learned new things in the process), but actually the solution was much simpler: heh.., I just needed to mute one certain channel in alsamixer... I could have sweared that I knew which alsamixer settings I had used before and that worked... But maybe I remembered wrong, or maybe that was some new setting there I hadn't sen before..?? Anyway, I tried several alsamixer settings and found the one that worked for me, and now everything works perfectly again, also the digital output...

Yeah, lol alsamixer is a mystery of it's own at time. BTW your card was a snd-ymfpci - [Yamaha DS-XG (YMF754)], what setting did you use to get it to work. I'll add it to the guide in case someone with similar problems experiences what you did.