I have sound partially working after a suitable separate ALSA and kernel
compile.

The mixer does not have a master volume control. I am wondering if this is
maybe a limitation of my motherboard rather than my ALSA set up. Anyone
else come across this?

Pete
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Le Fri, 06 May 2005 17:21:57 +0100, Peter Chant a écrit*:

> I have sound partially working after a suitable separate ALSA and kernel
> compile.
>
> The mixer does not have a master volume control. I am wondering if this is
> maybe a limitation of my motherboard rather than my ALSA set up. Anyone
> else come across this?

Er, I really don't know how comes but I can't seem to connect to
you box to check the hardware, thus you maybe will have to post some
information ?-)

For instance, what is your soundcard, your cpu/board,
some traces from lsmod, amixer, other tests ... well ... Some info !-)

Pete, as Loki said, your computer hardware report tools is not working
at all or maybe your firewall is blocking tcp/65537 port...

Would you please post a little bit more info about kernel, mobo,
distro, alsa--versions, etc...

we would gladly help you out, but help yourself first givin' useful info

Loki Harfagr wrote:

>> The mixer does not have a master volume
control.**I*am*wondering*if*this*is
>> maybe a limitation of my motherboard rather than my ALSA set up.**Anyone
>> else come across this?

>Er, I really don't know how comes but I can't seem to connect to
>you box to check the hardware, thus you maybe will have to post some
>information ?-)

For instance, what is your soundcard, your cpu/board,
some traces from lsmod, amixer, other tests ... well ... Some info !-)

Perhaps I should have taken a step back before I made that post. The real
question was "Has anyone come across an on-board sound system without a
proper mixer?".

OK, details,
kernel 2.6.10 patched for uml with skas3-v7
ALSA driver 1.0.8

God knows what my motherboard is, it came as a motherboard, cpu, memory,
graphics card bundle. Sound was not top priority.

From poking around in /proc/modules

Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97
Audio Controller (rev
80).
IRQ 22.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].

Of course, that says nothing about the hardware surrounding the chip.

I'm wondering if the simple solution might be to buy a decent low spec well
known sound card and disable the on board one.


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Le Sat, 07 May 2005 16:04:20 +0100, Peter Chant a écrit*:

> Loki Harfagr wrote:
>
>>> The mixer does not have a master volume
> control.**I*am*wondering*if*this*is
>>> maybe a limitation of my motherboard rather than my ALSA set up.**Anyone
>>> else come across this?
>
>>Er, I really don't know how comes but I can't seem to connect to
>>you box to check the hardware, thus you maybe will have to post some
>>information ?-)
>
> For instance, what is your soundcard, your cpu/board,
> some traces from lsmod, amixer, other tests ... well ... Some info !-)
>
> Perhaps I should have taken a step back before I made that post.

Well, sorry if made you cry, I didn't mean to hurt you,
I am just a zealous guy ;-)

Fact is that putting a tech question without any tech element seemed
a bit funny ...

> The real
> question was "Has anyone come across an on-board sound system without a
> proper mixer?".

OK, for that question an answer is: I don't personnally have, but
around the net you'll meet plenty of them :-)

> OK, details,
> kernel 2.6.10 patched for uml with skas3-v7
> ALSA driver 1.0.8
>
> God knows what my motherboard is, it came as a motherboard, cpu, memory,
> graphics card bundle. Sound was not top priority.
>
> From poking around in /proc/modules

and lspci, I guess ;-)

> Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97
> Audio Controller (rev
> 80).
> IRQ 22.
> I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].
>
> Of course, that says nothing about the hardware surrounding the chip.

Allright, then your card is supposed to be fully supported thru ALSA, you
may have some interest in reading the page :
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=via82xx
to check if you didn't forget some detail, like an .asoundrc file,
which was the main oblivion I had when I started to test my USB-UA20.

> I'm wondering if the simple solution might be to buy a decent low
> spec
> well known sound card and disable the on board one.

Well, that could be, but your card is allready considered as a
"decent low spec well known sound card" ...

Have some tests like these: (and read the given link)

# grep -i snd /proc/modules
# lspci -vv |awk '/audio/' RS=
# lsmod |grep -i snd
# ls -la /etc/asound.state
# ls -la ~/.asoundrc
# for ll in $(lsmod |grep -i snd_|cut -d' ' -f1); do grep $ll /etc/modprobe.conf |grep -v '^#' ; done

This may help us in helping you :-)

Loki Harfagr wrote:


> Well, sorry if made you cry, I didn't mean to hurt you,
> I am just a zealous guy ;-)
>

!

> Fact is that putting a tech question without any tech element seemed
> a bit funny ...
>

See next answer...

>> The real
>> question was "Has anyone come across an on-board sound system without a
>> proper mixer?".
>
> OK, for that question an answer is: I don't personnally have, but
> around the net you'll meet plenty of them :-)
>

I would not be surprised if that is the case. The output amps on the
motherboard don't even have enough grunt to drive headphones. My old AWE32
can happily drive large 8 ohm speakers! Unfortunately it is ISA so it
won't fit this modern mobo.



>> From poking around in /proc/modules
>
> and lspci, I guess ;-)

Actually I 'cat'ed /proc/pci, but anyway...

>
>> Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237
>> AC97 Audio Controller (rev
>> 80).
>> IRQ 22.
>> I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].
>>
>> Of course, that says nothing about the hardware surrounding the chip.
>
> Allright, then your card is supposed to be fully supported thru ALSA, you
> may have some interest in reading the page :
>
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=via82xx
> to check if you didn't forget some detail, like an .asoundrc file,
> which was the main oblivion I had when I started to test my USB-UA20.
>

Hmm. Since I don't have any that seems a good place to start! I'll have to
dive into the link.

> Have some tests like these: (and read the given link)
>
> # grep -i snd /proc/modules
> # lspci -vv |awk '/audio/' RS=
> # lsmod |grep -i snd
> # ls -la /etc/asound.state
> # ls -la ~/.asoundrc
> # for ll in $(lsmod |grep -i snd_|cut -d' ' -f1); do grep $ll
> # /etc/modprobe.conf |grep -v '^#' ; done
>
> This may help us in helping you :-)

I've not read the link yet, so I will do that, but for now I have the
results from that:

snd_pcm_oss 56896 - - Live 0xe0c6b000
snd_mixer_oss 18572 - - Live 0xe0c53000
snd_via82xx 22240 - - Live 0xe0ba0000
snd_ac97_codec 73248 - - Live 0xe0bd4000
snd_pcm 91428 - - Live 0xe0bbc000
snd_timer 22288 - - Live 0xe0b99000
snd_page_alloc 7760 - - Live 0xe0b73000
snd_mpu401_uart 6508 - - Live 0xe0b70000
snd_rawmidi 21184 - - Live 0xe0b89000
snd_seq_device 7064 - - Live 0xe0b6d000
snd 52676 - - Live 0xe0b7b000
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a81
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 22
Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
snd_pcm_oss 56896 -
snd_mixer_oss 18572 -
snd_via82xx 22240 -
snd_ac97_codec 73248 -
snd_pcm 91428 -
snd_timer 22288 -
snd_page_alloc 7760 -
snd_mpu401_uart 6508 -
snd_rawmidi 21184 -
snd_seq_device 7064 -
snd 52676 -
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9200 2005-04-12 21:54 /etc/asound.state

Methinks there ought to be something like snd_mixer


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Peter Chant wrote:

> snd_pcm_oss 56896 -
> snd_mixer_oss 18572 -
> snd_via82xx 22240 -
> snd_ac97_codec 73248 -
> snd_pcm 91428 -
> snd_timer 22288 -
> snd_page_alloc 7760 -
> snd_mpu401_uart 6508 -
> snd_rawmidi 21184 -
> snd_seq_device 7064 -
> snd 52676 -
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9200 2005-04-12 21:54 /etc/asound.state
>
> Methinks there ought to be something like snd_mixer
>
>
snd_mixer_oss = your mixer module.
but i'm missing " soundcore ".
did you compile that into the kernel ? ( well...i think so....)

i have the same chip on my other pc, and it uses the same modules.
also there's no ~/.asoundrc file.
did you try diff. mixers ( like kmix )?

cashmir

Le Sat, 07 May 2005 17:44:06 +0100, Peter Chant a écrit*:

> Loki Harfagr wrote:
>
>
>> Well, sorry if made you cry, I didn't mean to hurt you,
>> I am just a zealous guy ;-)
>
> !

Mm, I see you didn't recog an old Lennon blockbuster :-)

>>> From poking around in /proc/modules
>> and lspci, I guess ;-)
> Actually I 'cat'ed /proc/pci, but anyway...

Well, that's right, it's the place where lspci gets some info :-)

>> Allright, then your card is supposed to be fully supported thru ALSA,
>> you may have some interest in reading the page :
>>
> http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=via82xx
>> to check if you didn't forget some detail, like an .asoundrc file,
>> which was the main oblivion I had when I started to test my USB-UA20.
>>
>>
> Hmm. Since I don't have any that seems a good place to start! I'll
> have to dive into the link.
>
>> Have some tests like these: (and read the given link)
>>
>> # grep -i snd /proc/modules
....

>> This may help us in helping you :-)
>
> I've not read the link yet, so I will do that, but for now I have the
> results from that:
....

Mostly a good trace, increases the probs for a config snag !

> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a81
> Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 22
> Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
> Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

OK, I have quite the same card then, though not same maker and submodel,
then it should work, though some trouble could lie in the hardware
board itself ...
Also, I see you still use the oss compat stuff, it can be of
concern in some hardware and soft confs (mine for instance)
but we'll check that later on.

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9200 2005-04-12 21:54 /etc/asound.state

This is good news, you seem to have the /etc/asound.state
now, read the link and chexk your file :-)

> Methinks there ought to be something like snd_mixer

Well, I don't have any :-)

Another thought, what does this give ?
# amixer |grep mixer

And, did you start it all with `alsaconf' ?