[CentOS] Acer 5920 audio chip does not work in CentOS 5.2?

hce webmail.hce at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 00:22:49 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:36 PM, William L. Maltby
<CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:52 +1000, hce wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William L. Maltby
>> <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 23:51 -0500, Alex White wrote:
>> > hce wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I've installed CentOS 5.2 to a laptop Acer 5920 for dual boot, the
>> >> audio works in Window Vista, but does not work in CentOS 5.2. Does
>> >> CentOS 5.2 support following audio chip or not?
>> >>
>> >> Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
>> >> Controller (rev 03)
>> >>
>> >> Thank you.
>> >>
>> >> Kind Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Jim
>> >>
>> > When you say it doesn't work, are you getting an error message
>> > saying that there's no sound device?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> >> Does lspci list your soundcard? If you have a super long list and
>> >> can't locate it easily, you can try (but I can't promise this will
>> >> work for you, it does for me however) lspci | grep audio
>>
>> Please see following lspci information for the audio, seems ok.
>>
>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
>> Controller (rev 03)
>>         Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0121
>>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 66
>>         Memory at f0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>>
>> ><snip>
>
> I'm certainly not expert on this, but I can think of a few things to
> examine that might give a clue.
>
> First, under 5.1, do an lsmod and note the driver(s) loaded for the
> audio. Might want to examine the modprobe.conf file too.

Please see following results from modproble.conf and lsmod. I can see
that the soundcore was loaded, I guess the audio module was loaded,
right?

$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 tg3
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ahci
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel


$ /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
i915                   23745  2
drm                    65493  3 i915
ipv6                  258273  24
xfrm_nalgo             13765  1 ipv6
crypto_api             11969  1 xfrm_nalgo
autofs4                24517  2
hidp                   23105  2
rfcomm                 42457  0
l2cap                  29505  10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth              53797  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                144893  1
cpufreq_ondemand       12493  1
dm_mirror              29253  0
dm_multipath           22089  0
dm_mod                 61661  2 dm_mirror,dm_multipath
video                  21193  0
sbs                    18533  0
backlight              10049  1 video
i2c_ec                  9025  1 sbs
button                 10705  0
battery                13637  0
asus_acpi              19289  0
ac                      9157  0
parport_pc             29157  0
lp                     15849  0
parport                37513  2 parport_pc,lp
joydev                 13313  0
snd_hda_intel          24793  1
snd_hda_codec         210881  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy           7877  0
snd_seq_oss            32577  0
snd_seq_midi_event     11073  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49585  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         11725  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            42945  0
snd_mixer_oss          19009  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                72005  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              24517  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    52421  11
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              11553  1 snd
sg                     36189  0
ide_cd                 40033  0
snd_page_alloc         14281  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sdhci                  21337  0
mmc_core               27457  1 sdhci
cdrom                  36705  1 ide_cd
pcspkr                  7105  0
tg3                   107717  0
i2c_i801               11597  0
i2c_core               23745  2 i2c_ec,i2c_i801
serio_raw              10693  0
ata_piix               22341  0
ahci                   30149  2
libata                143997  2 ata_piix,ahci
sd_mod                 24897  3
scsi_mod              134605  3 sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  123593  2
jbd                    56553  1 ext3
uhci_hcd               25421  0
ohci_hcd               23261  0
ehci_hcd               33357  0

> Under 5.2, was that file changed by update? Do "updatedb" and then
> "locate rpmnew" and "locate rpmsave". If any are found, that indicates
> that a new config (usually) file is available or was installed. These
> need to be examined and sometimes adjusted (rpmsave) or adjusted and
> installed (rpmnew).

The 5.2 was installed from scratch, it was not updated from an old version.

> Check (5.1 and 5.2) /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages for anything
> related to the sound. If the device was found, there should be something
> there.

I've checked dmesg and messages, but could not find any word to Audio,
or audio, or sound. But again, I checked dmesg and messages from my
desktop which installed FC7 and I could not find anything to audio and
sound as well.

The only suspecious I could find was following boot message, but I am
not sure it was related or not, and not sure how could fix following.

PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.5
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.5
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.5



> Under 5.2, do an lsmod and see if the drivers were loaded. Also, after
> the updatedb, use locate and see if the module is found.

What is the name of the audio module and driver from lsmod? I can only
found soundcore as above.

Thank you so much.

Kind Regards,

Jim


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