topic title: Sound card not picked up in ALSA, have any ideas?
Posts: 14
adstaryoung
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
#1
Hello to all at Antix, could you please help me get some sound on this computer?
Tried to configure my sound card...went through"control centre, configure sound system) and this error came up...

ALSA
No supported PnP or PCI Card found.Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards and chips? I clicked yesand this appeared, no legacy drivers available.

My computer details...
System: Host Vincent and Mary Kernel 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.2 Tȟašúŋke Witkó - Crazy Horse 24 July 2009
CPU: Single core Pentium II (Deschutes) (UP) cache 512 KB flags (-) bmips 245 clocked at 0.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Neomagic NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] X.Org 1.4.2 Res: 1024x768@70.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa GLX Indirect GLX Version 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.4) Direct Rendering No
Audio: Card Failed to Detect Sound Card!
Network: Card Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too v: 0.9.28 at port 1000
Disks: HDD Total Size: 6.5GB (23.8% used) 1: /dev/hda IBM-DADA-26480 6.5GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 5.5G used: 1.5G (28%) ID:swap-1 size: 0.53GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
Info: Processes 71 Uptime 1:53 Memory 105.5/248.8MB Client Shell inxi 1.0.17
Posts: 1,520
eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#2
Do you know which card you have? If not try this:

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lspci | grep audio
Post the output. Also, you could run aumix and check any levels.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
I have had this happen on my Amrel Laptops also. Seems Debian has dropped support for some sound chips in the newer kernels.

Had to go with a older kernel. Like AntiX 8.0 or 7.5.
Posts: 14
adstaryoung
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
#4
Hi Eriefisher,
here is the output...(I tried to enter grep audio but it didn't produce any information)
What do you suggest from here?

root@mepis:/home/vincent# lspci | grep audio
root@mepis:/home/vincent# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12)
00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port Type-O (rev 23)
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05)
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Posts: 1,520
eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#5
Well, it doesn't show a sound card but I notice two other things.

1- (AGP disabled) It is possible that there is a agp sound card but not likely.

2-you show an isa bridge, this is more than likely where the sound card is looking at the age of this machine.

A lot of drivers have been dropped but you still may be able to get it working with some googleing. You may need to open the box and physically look at the card.

An easier solution would be to get a pci sound card(very cheap) if you have a free port.