I've go a Compaq Presario (SR5110NX) that I've loaded CentOS 5 on and all is well except for the sound card. I understand that OSS supports the chipset but it's not being detected an loaded properly and I've invested a significant amount of time already. I've probably got an old supported card lying around here somewhere but I hat to give up on the principal. I would rather not download the proprietary drivers as that will create a dependency when the kernel is upgraded and I'm shipping this off to a remote law office where I'd like them to be a little more self sufficient than having to have me log in and recompile each time they upgrade a kernel. Any experience or advise with this would be appreciated.
Regards, Chuck
Following up to myself, I have ruled out a hardware problem by booting the Fedora 7 Live CD and confirming that he card works under that distro. I used the F7 /etc/modprobe.conf as a cheat sheet but still am not getting audio under CentOS 5. I listed the loaded modules after rebooting and found that the sound drivers still had not loaded in spite of the modified modprobe.conf:
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv alias eth0 forcedeth alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0
I ran modprobe snd-card-0 and all of the expected modules loaded as they did under F7 but still no audio output.
I checked to be sure kudzu was seeing the device and it is: # kudzu -p ........ class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: "nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio" vendorId: 10de deviceId: 03f0 subVendorId: 103c subDeviceId: 2a5c pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 5 pcifn: 0 '''''''''
I want to stay on CentOS for stability and longevity reasons.
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:24 -0400, Chuck Mattern wrote:
I've go a Compaq Presario (SR5110NX) that I've loaded CentOS 5 on and all is well except for the sound card. I understand that OSS supports the chipset but it's not being detected an loaded properly and I've invested a significant amount of time already. I've probably got an old supported card lying around here somewhere but I hat to give up on the principal. I would rather not download the proprietary drivers as that will create a dependency when the kernel is upgraded and I'm shipping this off to a remote law office where I'd like them to be a little more self sufficient than having to have me log in and recompile each time they upgrade a kernel. Any experience or advise with this would be appreciated.
Regards, Chuck
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On September 30, 2007, Chuck Mattern wrote:
Following up to myself, I have ruled out a hardware problem by booting the Fedora 7 Live CD and confirming that he card works under that distro. I used the F7 /etc/modprobe.conf as a cheat sheet but still am not getting audio under CentOS 5. I listed the loaded modules after rebooting and found that the sound drivers still had not loaded in spite of the modified modprobe.conf:
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv alias eth0 forcedeth alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0
I ran modprobe snd-card-0 and all of the expected modules loaded as they did under F7 but still no audio output.
I checked to be sure kudzu was seeing the device and it is: # kudzu -p ........ class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: "nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio" vendorId: 10de deviceId: 03f0 subVendorId: 103c subDeviceId: 2a5c pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 5 pcifn: 0 '''''''''
I want to stay on CentOS for stability and longevity reasons.
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:24 -0400, Chuck Mattern wrote:
I've go a Compaq Presario (SR5110NX) that I've loaded CentOS 5 on and all is well except for the sound card. I understand that OSS supports the chipset but it's not being detected an loaded properly and I've invested a significant amount of time already. I've probably got an old supported card lying around here somewhere but I hat to give up on the principal. I would rather not download the proprietary drivers as that will create a dependency when the kernel is upgraded and I'm shipping this off to a remote law office where I'd like them to be a little more self sufficient than having to have me log in and recompile each time they upgrade a kernel. Any experience or advise with this would be appreciated.
Regards, Chuck
HI Chuck,
Don't mean to be out of line, but did you check to see if the audio mixer has not muted the device? Perhaps run as root alsamixer and set your values then alsactl store ( I think) to store the settings?
Phil
Hey Phil,
There's no way to be out of line when trying to help :-) Thanks for the thought but alsa doesn't even see the card at this point, for instance alsamixer gives me:
root@sphinx ~]# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
and alsactl (pointed at the file I created with alsactl store running under Fedora 7 Live CD) gives me:
[root@sphinx ~]# alsactl restore alsactl: load_state:1236: No soundcards found...
Thanks for the attempt!
Regards, Chuck
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 22:28 -0400, Phil Savoie wrote:
On September 30, 2007, Chuck Mattern wrote:
Following up to myself, I have ruled out a hardware problem by booting the Fedora 7 Live CD and confirming that he card works under that distro. I used the F7 /etc/modprobe.conf as a cheat sheet but still am not getting audio under CentOS 5. I listed the loaded modules after rebooting and found that the sound drivers still had not loaded in spite of the modified modprobe.conf:
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv alias eth0 forcedeth alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0
I ran modprobe snd-card-0 and all of the expected modules loaded as they did under F7 but still no audio output.
I checked to be sure kudzu was seeing the device and it is: # kudzu -p ........ class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: "nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio" vendorId: 10de deviceId: 03f0 subVendorId: 103c subDeviceId: 2a5c pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 5 pcifn: 0 '''''''''
I want to stay on CentOS for stability and longevity reasons.
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:24 -0400, Chuck Mattern wrote:
I've go a Compaq Presario (SR5110NX) that I've loaded CentOS 5 on and all is well except for the sound card. I understand that OSS supports the chipset but it's not being detected an loaded properly and I've invested a significant amount of time already. I've probably got an old supported card lying around here somewhere but I hat to give up on the principal. I would rather not download the proprietary drivers as that will create a dependency when the kernel is upgraded and I'm shipping this off to a remote law office where I'd like them to be a little more self sufficient than having to have me log in and recompile each time they upgrade a kernel. Any experience or advise with this would be appreciated.
Regards, Chuck
HI Chuck,
Don't mean to be out of line, but did you check to see if the audio mixer has not muted the device? Perhaps run as root alsamixer and set your values then alsactl store ( I think) to store the settings?
Phil
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
on 9/30/2007 5:28 PM Chuck Mattern spake the following:
Following up to myself, I have ruled out a hardware problem by booting the Fedora 7 Live CD and confirming that he card works under that distro. I used the F7 /etc/modprobe.conf as a cheat sheet but still am not getting audio under CentOS 5. I listed the loaded modules after rebooting and found that the sound drivers still had not loaded in spite of the modified modprobe.conf:
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv alias eth0 forcedeth alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-card-0 index=0 options snd-hda-intel index=0
I ran modprobe snd-card-0 and all of the expected modules loaded as they did under F7 but still no audio output.
I checked to be sure kudzu was seeing the device and it is: # kudzu -p ........ class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: "nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio" vendorId: 10de deviceId: 03f0 subVendorId: 103c subDeviceId: 2a5c pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 5 pcifn: 0 '''''''''
I want to stay on CentOS for stability and longevity reasons.
Could the Fedora 7 live cd have a newer/different driver than CentOS? AFAIR CentOS is more in line with Core 6, and Core 7 might have a newer driver by 6 to 9 months. Maybe running modinfo under each one and look at the output.
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