SB400 AC'97 Sound Card

[Frans]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:54:21 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:

> 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.

What's the output from "uname -r" ? I get 2.6.24-19-generic and the 
snd-atiixp module for that kernel is part of the linux-ubuntu-
modules-2.6.24-19-generic package.

Good luck!

    -Frans