Hi
I have followed this how-to to the letter & I still cannot get sound from my system under Ubuntu.
It appears that the sound card is present:
jimbo@jimbo-desktop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: VT82xx [HDA VIA VT82xx], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
jimbo@jimbo-desktop:~$
and
jimbo@jimbo-desktop:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller (prog-if 20 [IO(X)-APIC])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Security Device
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: fa900000-fe9fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000bff00000-00000000dfefffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
I/O ports at e880 [size=4]
I/O ports at e800 [size=8]
I/O ports at e480 [size=4]
I/O ports at e400 [size=16]
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
I/O ports at d880 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
I/O ports at d480 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at febffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
Flags: medium devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 337e
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at febff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: fea00000-feafffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 0271
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at fe9e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at feafc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
jimbo@jimbo-desktop:~$
Even though the last line in each section that shows Capabilities: <access denied>.
It shouldn't really be problem. Or am I wrong on that assumption?
I also have the via82xx so entering sudo modprobe snd-via82xx was successful
Following all other sections I still can't get the sound to work
I am wondering about the alsamixer. You state the following:
" You will see what appears to be a graphic equalizer. It is more like ten different volume controls in the same place."
I only have two volume controls showing as below
─[AlsaMixer v1.0.13 (Press Escape to quit)]──────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA VIA VT82xx │
│ Chip: Generic 1106 ID 1708 │
│ View: [Playback] Capture All │
│ Item: PCM [dB gain=-10.00, -10.00] │
│ │
│ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ └──┘ ├──┤ │
│ │OO│ │
│ └──┘ │
│ 80<>80 81<>81 │
│ < PCM > Front
Could this be the problem. The box below the volume slider with the 00 is green.
could this be part of the problem?
Thanks for your time
jbag
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