No sound on Intel ICH6-card

[Johann Spies]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:23:23PM -0700, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:37:36AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> There was no need to recompile the kernel. All you needed to do was
> to compile the appropriate ALSA driver from 'alsa-source'.
> 
> Instructions in /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian shed more
> light. The critical instruction is the last one (you don't need to
> perform all the make-kpkg steps).

I can't remember the details of what I have tried, but I compiled the
kernel because what I tried was ending with an error message that the
modules have already been compiled in the kernel or something like
that.

> 
> > Now the devices are there, but I get no sound.  I have also tried
> > installing the polypaudio-packages (after something I saw on the
> > Ubuntu-Wiki about sound-problems with Skype), but I still have no
> > success.
> 
> Uninstalling esd for polypaudio is completely independent of your
> sound driver issue. Since you're in this predicament now, please
> ensure that you have all the appropriate polypaudio packages
> installed - or reinstall all the appropriate esd packages.
> 
> For reference, on my system, these are the polypaudio-related
> packages that are installed:
> 
> libpolyp0, polypaudio, polypaudio-alsa, polypaudio-clients,
> polypaudio-x11
> 
> [...]
> > I have now the following snd-related modules loaded:
> > 
> > snd_azx                15904  0 
> > snd_hda_codec          46912  1 snd_azx
> > snd_pcm_oss            53632  0 
> > snd_mixer_oss          20000  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_pcm                95464  3 snd_azx,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_timer              25892  1 snd_pcm
> > snd                    58372  6 snd_azx,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> > soundcore              10208  1 snd
> > snd_page_alloc          9988  2 snd_azx,snd_pcm
> 
> What is the output of cat /proc/asound/cards?
> 
> Ensure that you do not also have i810_audio or ac97_codec loaded.
> 

Thanks.  In the end I found that there was also a hardware problem:
The audio plug in the front of the computer was not functioning.
Plugging the speakers in to the back of the PC worked!

At least I can deliver the PC now with the sound working.  Thanks
again for your help.

Regards
Johann
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