SB400 AC'97 Sound Card

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 30 August 2008 17:54, 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.
>
> Keith

Hi Keith. The sound isn't disabled in the BIOS by any chance? Mind you, from 
my experience of that, modules were still loaded, but Alsa couldn't detect 
the soundcard.

Which kernel are you using? As user, uname -r

Can you post the output of:
sudo modinfo snd-atiixp
and
sudo modinfo soundcore

Also the output of lsmod (the complete list)

Please verify that the following alsa packages are still installed, using 
synaptic:
alsa-base          1.0.16-Oubuntu4
alsa-utils            1.0.15-3ubuntu2
libasound2         1.0.15-3ubuntu4

The above versions are for my Kubuntu HH 8.04 install.

If you have the Ubuntu CD, have you tried booting the live version, and see 
whether it detects, and sets up the soundcard ok?

That gives you a whole bunch of stuff to do, apart from re-installing, which 
you should not have to consider.

Read you later.

Nigel.