No sound on Intel ICH6-card

[Johann Spies]

I am installing Hoary on a PC for somebody else but I after several
hours of searching, reading google, compiling kernels I had no success
so far.

The hardware:

    description: Computer
    capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: D915GUX
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       version: AAC63987-205
       serial: BTUX50905428
       slot: J5A1
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 0
          version: EV91510A.86A.0283.2004.0924.1109 (09/24/2004)
          size: 64KB
          capacity: 448KB
...
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
 ...

     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 40
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 1GB
...
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O Controller
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci at 00:00.0
          version: 04
          clock: 33MHz
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge (Normal decode)
             product: 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port
             vendor: Intel Corp.
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci at 00:01.0
             version: 04
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
        *-display UNCLAIMED
             description: VGA compatible controller (VGA)
             product: 82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corp.
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci at 00:02.0
             version: 04
             size: 256MB
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list
             configuration: irq=11
        *-multimedia UNCLAIMED
             description: Multimedia controller
             product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corp.
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci at 00:1b.0
             version: 03
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: irq=11
...

I have no sound module loaded.  I have tried compiling the
2.6.11-kernel form the sources on Hoary but there seems to be a few
bugs in the code and although I could get the PC to boot and function
somehow, I have seen several kernel-related error messages on the tty
with this kernel - which was not the case with the 2.6.10 kernel from
the installation-CD.

Anyhow, the 2.6.11 kernel did not fix the sound-problem.

Even after loading the following modules using modprobe (how I miss
Debian's modconf!):

 snd-intel8x0,  snd-pcm-oss,  snd-mixer-oss,  snd-seq-oss there was no
 /dev/dsp or /dev/audio

I have seen some GUI-menu which made an inventory of the hardware (and
it could not get the sound working) apparently to send it in to
Ubuntu, but I can't find it now in the Gnome-menu-system.

Any ideas on how to get the sound working on this system?

Regards
Johann
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Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

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