No sound on Intel ICH6-card

[Tony Arnold]

I have a motherboard with the same chip set and could not get the sound
to work. I ended up installing a cheap PCI sound card as a solution
(only because I happened to have one lying around in a cupboard).

I read somewhere that support for this is supposed to be included in the
version of Alsa that comes with Hoary but for some reason, the modules
have been left out of the distribution.

I'd be very interested in any solution to this one.

Regards,
Tony.

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 14:32 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
> Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
> 
>      "And he said to them all, If any man will come after 
>       me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,
>       and follow me."          Luke 9:23 
> 
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