Hey all, I installed Antix on a newer PC, and have ran into a bit of a wall.

When I used the"test drive" disc I tested youtube video's and lastFM sites and made sure that the graphics cards (etc) were all working and found just fine.

After the install, the sound is not working. I can move the volume control up and down, and I think the system"thinks" there is sound, but nothing is coming out of the speakers.

Any advice or ideas?

thanks-
joshua

In antiX control centre ->hardware -> adjust mixer. And/or via gamix. (Menu -> Applications ->Multimedia).
And if that doesn't work, antiX control centre -> hardware -> configure sound system.

Ok, I'm still not out of the woods.

I did the adjust mixer, made sure everything was set up there. Went to gamix, turned everything up. still no sound. Then I went to the configure sound system and it says no drivers (or legacy drivers) detected.

After I did the Configure sound system, I cannot make the volume control come up(from the task bar), and the adjust mixer doesn't come up anymore. It just pops up and disappears instantly. Also gamix comes up, but shows nothing.

grrrr- I'm stumped. plus if I wanted to show screen shots, how would I do this?

sorry-
joshua

I just went through package files and downloaded basically every file I could find with sound driver in them. Installing all Alsa packages. so far no dice. I'll try a reboot, see if that does anything.

What type of sound card? Is it card, or is it integrated into the motherboard? If it is integrated, what chipset does the motherboard use?

That the sound system worked from the live cd strongly suggests that it will work in the full install.

That the alsa setup can not configure sound means either the hardware is not being seen by system, the right driver or kernel module is not loading, or both.

To see if the system even detects the sound device, open a terminal and type

lspci -v

This will list all pci type devices on the system (-v tells it to be verbose). You might have to scroll up, but see if your sound device is listed. It may be called multimedia device, audio or sound.

lspci | egrep -i audio

might also work.

If you are getting to much information, you can type lspci -v >pcitext
That will send the output to the file pcitext. You can then type leafpad pcitext & to look at the output in a text editor.

If this is a usb sound device, I think you can type lsusb with similar results.

If your sound card is not shown, you can't go further until the system is made to see it. How exactly I am not sure. Perhaps some bios setting.

If your sound card is shown, then it is most likely a dirver or kernel module problem.

Go to this website
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and see if you can find your sound card.

I'll give an example from where to go from here. Adjust it according to the sound card that you own.

Lets say you have a Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum by Creative Labs. If you find this card in the list from the website, you will note it's driver:

emu10k2

If you dig a bit more in the docs, you will see the module name for this driver is snd-emu10k1.

At terminal typing the command (you may need to be root first, use su):

modprobe snd-emu10k1

would cause the snd-emu10k1 module to load.

At this point you could try to configure sound again, hopefully with the sound card being dected.

This is all kinda rough, and you will have to change things around for your device, but I hope it at least points you down the right road.

You can try these also:

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dcbevins
thanks for such a detailed explanation. I'm having the same exact problem in my daughter's desktop.
The card is found by lspci


01:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
Subsystem: Creative Labs SB0570 [SB Audigy SE]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
I/O ports at df20
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: CA0106

I did do modprobe snd-ca0106. But still no sound. Any other suggestions?

thanks.
Pedro

I managed to fix the problem with my sound card.
I found this page with instructions


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brought up the sound with alsamixer, and now sound works! Let's hope it survives a reboot.

This is what I get when I typed lspci -v


Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: efd00000-efefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000e7ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at efffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
Memory behind bridge: efc00000-efcfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000c01fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: c0200000-c03fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0400000-00000000c05fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: ef700000-efbfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0600000-00000000c07fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at ff80
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at ff60
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at ff40
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at ff20
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: ef600000-ef6fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GH (ICH7DH) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0
I/O ports at 03f4
I/O ports at 0170
I/O ports at 0374
I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE

00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA RAID Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
I/O ports at fe00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe10 [size=4]
I/O ports at fe20 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe30 [size=4]
I/O ports at fea0 [size=16]
Memory at efffbc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at ece0 [size=32]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device 0602
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at efde0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at efe00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600]
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device 0603
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at efdf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01d1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
Memory at ef7e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at ef800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
I/O ports at cce0 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e

05:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at ef6eb800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at ef6ec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394

05:05.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
Subsystem: Conexant Systems, Inc. Dimension 3000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at ef6f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at bcf8 [size=8]
Capabilities: <access denied>

jaeger@diningroom:~$

It looks like your card is supported by alsa, here's the webpage with some information


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try the modprobe commands near the end of the page:

modprobe snd-hda-intel ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss

and check alsamixer for volume after that.

Good luck!

ugh, I'm really out of my league-

jaeger@diningroom:~$ modprobe snd-pcm-oss
bash: modprobe: command not found
jaeger@diningroom:~$ modprobe snd-hda-intel
bash: modprobe: command not found
jaeger@diningroom:~$ modprobe snd-mixer-oss
bash: modprobe: command not found
jaeger@diningroom:~$

should I be doing this in terminal?

yes, as root

in terminal you can type

su

it will ask for your password and then make you root

i dont think modprobe will be found unless you are root, and unlike ubuntu sudo doesnt work out of the box

cool, thank you- I will give it a shot.

root@diningroom:/home/jaeger# modprobe snd-hda-intel
root@diningroom:/home/jaeger# modprobe snd-pcm-oss
root@diningroom:/home/jaeger# modprobe snd-mixer-oss

HOLY MOLEY IT WORKED!!!

I know have sound, am now enjoying youtube and last.fm on this awesome ANTIX machine!! w00T!!

we, rebooted Antix and now we don't have sound again.

I tried all of the modprobe terminal codes and got nothing now. Its as though everything went back to NOT working?

What is going on now?