SB400 AC'97 Sound Card

[Keith Clark]

Frans wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:25:13 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
>
>   
>> Frans wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:45:57 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Nigel Henry wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Friday 29 August 2008 18:53, Keith Clark wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>>>> How I get Ubuntu 8.04.1 to recognize my ATI SB400 AC'97 sound card?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Keith
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I don't know if I can help much, but perhaps you could provide the
>>>>> output from the following commands.
>>>>>
>>>>> lspci -v
>>>>> cat /proc/asound/cards
>>>>> cat /proc/asound/version
>>>>> lsmod | grep snd
>>>>>
>>>>> Sound is usually muted as default to protect your ears, and speakers,
>>>>> so open a terminal (CLI), and as user type alsamixer. If the
>>>>> soundcard has been detected, and set up, you should see a whole bunch
>>>>> of mixer settings here.
>>>>>
>>>>> See the man page for alsamixer for useage.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nigel.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Ok Nigel, here you go:
>>>>
>>>> lspci -v:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>> 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400
>>>> AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
>>>>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a27 Flags: bus
>>>>     master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 Memory at fe02a000
>>>>     (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Message
>>>>     Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
>>>> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>>>>     
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Now please try the other commands and suggestions from Nigel :-)
>>>
>>>     -Frans
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> cat /proc/asound/cards
>> cat /proc/asound/version
>>
>> Both of these commands result in No Such File or Directory
>>
>> lsmod | grep snd
>>
>> Results in nothing.  No error, no result.
>>
>> alsamixer results in:
>>
>> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
>> directory
>>     
>
> Thanks. Clearly there is no ALSA driver loaded. But your soundcard worked 
> before your "Grub boot confusion" problem, right?
>
> I really don't know what's the matter, but you could always try "sudo 
> modprobe snd-atiixp" to try to load the driver manually, and then see if 
> the commands you used before now give different results.
>
> Good luck!
>
>     -Frans
>
>
>   
Yes, it worked with no issues before.

modprobe snd-atiixp

Result:

FATAL: Module snd_atiixp not found.

Keith

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