Linux Debian support - Sound

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Sound - ICH7/82801G

Christoph Egger

2007-11-28, 7:16 pm

Hi

I'm trying to figure out how to make my soundsystem working
(ICH7/82801G). As of all the resources I read it should at last work
with the module snd_hda_intel loaded. As of now however only
systemsounds get through. Neither mplayer nor amaroK manage to produce
any sound.

Do anyone have an Idea how to fix this?

Christoph

P.S.: Are there any general Web-Resources for Debian you would advice me
to use? Back with Ubuntu I had some wiki.ubuntuusers.de and such wich
gave quite detailed description of some problems

Cousin Stanley

2007-11-29, 7:15 am

> I'm trying to figure out how to make my soundsystem working
> (ICH7/82801G). As of all the resources I read it should
> at last work with the module snd_hda_intel loaded.
>
> As of now however only systemsounds get through.
>
> Neither mplayer nor amaroK manage to produce any sound.
>
> Does anyone have an Idea how to fix this ?
> ....

Christoph ....

I have the same on-board sound system working
under Debian Etch using KDE ....

All of the following work OK
but I don't use amarok ....

mplayer, noatun, xmms

I initially set the volumes using amixer
and use kmix regularly for volume control ....

Perhaps seeing some of what is running here
might help ....

$ cat /etc/debian_version
4.0

$ uname -a
Linux em1 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007
i686 GNU/Linux

$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family)
High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

$ dpkg -l | grep alsa
ii alsa-base 1.0.13-5 ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-oss 1.0.12-1 ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
ii alsa-utils 1.0.13-2 ALSA utilities
ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer
(with X11 and ALSA

$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 7332 4
snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 38368 0
snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 68676 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 20996 2 snd_pcm
snd 47012 12 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,

snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9248 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9640 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

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Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona

Pierre Brua

2007-11-29, 1:15 pm

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:15:05 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote_:
> I'm trying to figure out how to make my soundsystem working
> (ICH7/82801G). As of all the resources I read it should at last work
> with the module snd_hda_intel loaded. As of now however only
> systemsounds get through. Neither mplayer nor amaroK manage to produce
> any sound.
>
> Do anyone have an Idea how to fix this?

Hi Christoph,

This chipset (82801G) is sometimes badly wired by hardware manufacturers.
For example with a MacMini the linux kernel used to send the output to
lto the "Line in" connector.

Could you tell more about your hardware (computer model) and software
(wh(debian distribution, kernel info). The output of those commands should
help :
lsmod|grep snd
and :
lspci
and :
uname -a

> P.S.: Are there any general Web-Resources for Debian you would advice me
> to use? Back with Ubuntu I had some wiki.ubuntuusers.de and such wich
> gave quite detailed description of some problems

I would suggest http://forums.debian.net/viewforum.php?f=7

Hope it helps,

--
Pierre Brua
System & Application Engineer
http://pierrebrua.com/

Christoph Egger

2007-11-29, 1:15 pm

Cousin Stanley wrote:
>
> Christoph ....
>
> I have the same on-board sound system working
> under Debian Etch using KDE ....
>
> All of the following work OK
> but I don't use amarok ....
>
> mplayer, noatun, xmms
>
> I initially set the volumes using amixer
> and use kmix regularly for volume control ....
>
> Perhaps seeing some of what is running here
> might help ....
>
> $ cat /etc/debian_version
> 4.0
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux em1 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> $ lspci | grep Audio
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family)
> High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep alsa
> ii alsa-base 1.0.13-5 ALSA driver configuration files
> ii alsa-oss 1.0.12-1 ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
> ii alsa-utils 1.0.13-2 ALSA utilities
> ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer
> (with X11 and ALSA
>
> $ lsmod | grep snd
> snd_hda_intel 7332 4
> snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel
> snd_pcm_oss 38368 0
> snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 68676 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 20996 2 snd_pcm
> snd 47012 12 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,

> snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore 9248 1 snd
> snd_page_alloc 9640 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>
>

Hi

Here are mine, hope that helps

christoph@akazieLX:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 239160 0
snd_pcm_oss 39200 0
snd_mixer_oss 15424 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 72324 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21028 1 snd_pcm
snd 48324 5
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,
snd_pcm,
snd_timer
soundcore 7520 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9512 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
christoph@akazieLX:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and
945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and
945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
#4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family)
Serial ATA Storage Controller AHCI (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
X1400
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752M
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (rev 02)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant
IEEE 1394 Host Controller
15:00.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia
Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
15:00.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA
Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
christoph@akazieLX:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 239160 0
snd_pcm_oss 39200 0
snd_mixer_oss 15424 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 72324 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21028 1 snd_pcm
snd 48324 5
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,
snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7520 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9512 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
christoph@akazieLX:~$ uname -a
Linux akazieLX 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
christoph@akazieLX:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
lenny/sid
christoph@akazieLX:~$ dpkg -l | grep alsa
ii alsa-base 1.0.15-2
ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-tools 1.0.14-2
Console based ALSA utilities for specific ha
ii alsa-utils 1.0.15-1
ALSA utilities
ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.11-9
Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA
ii libsox-fmt-alsa 14.0.0-5
SoX alsa format I/O library

Christoph Egger

2007-11-29, 1:15 pm

Totally missed my Vendor. This is an Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m bougt in early May this year.

Christoph Egger

2007-11-30, 1:13 pm

Hi

Finally did it with the pakage "alsamixergui"

Christoph

Cousin Stanley

2007-11-30, 7:12 pm

> This is an Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m bought
> in early May this year.
>
> Finally did it with the package "alsamixergui"

Christoph ....

Congratulations .... That's good news !

The box that I have with the same Intel sound chip as yours
is an eMachine and uses an Intel mother-board ....

Are you able to play .mid midi files ?

I've struggled quite a bit with that and have only
been successful using the xmms-midi plugin package ....

Some of the other midi-capable programs that I've tried
under Debian Etch seem to go through the motions
but no sound is emitted .... :-(

--
Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona

Darren Salt

2007-11-30, 7:12 pm

I demand that Cousin Stanley may or may not have written...

[vbcol=seagreen]
> Christoph ....
> Congratulations .... That's good news !

> The box that I have with the same Intel sound chip as yours is an eMachine
> and uses an Intel mother-board ....

> Are you able to play .mid midi files ?

You'll need timidity (or something equivalent) for that; with snd_virmidi
(kernel module) loaded, you can use timidity as a MIDI output device. OTOH,
if you install a SB Live or Audigy 2XS (I think) or Audigy 4 - basically,
anything with an EMU10k1 or EMU10k2 - you get a hardware synth, though you'll
need ct[48]mgm.sf2 from the install CD (you should arrange to load the file
using asfxload at boot time).

[snip]
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