Hello people after a very long hiatus. I have installed M7.5 on an imac5,1 (late 06)
I must say it is working great except for one problem, sound.
I tried to set up the sound card in the control center. At the selection screen I see
hda-intel Intel Corp. 82801G (ICH7 family) High Definition Audio and
legacy.

I chose hda-intel. I said yes to the question about modifying /etc/modprobe.d/sound and
/etc/modprobe.conf (if present).

alsaconf claimed the sound driver is configured, but xmms gives this message:
Couldn't open audio, please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly.
You have the correct output plugin selected. No other program is blocking the soundcard.

I checked and the ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin [libALSA.so] was selected in xmmx's preferences.

Here are some checks done after the above mentioned steps:

# lshw (excerpts)
mepis1
description: All In One
product: iMac5,1
vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
version: 1.0
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4
configuration: boot=normal chassis=all-in-one
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: Mac-F4228EC8
vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
physical id: 0
version: DVT
serial: 1
slot: Part Component
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
physical id: 0
version: IM51.88Z.0090.B09.0706270921 (06/27/07)
size: 1MiB
capacity: 1984KiB
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect acpi ieee1394boot smartbattery netboot
...
*-multimedia UNCLAIMED
description: Audio device
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver




# alsactl -v
alsactl version 1.0.16


# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:207: no soundcards found...


# aplay
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:564: audio open error: No such file or directory

Thanks for looking! steve

Possible fix?


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Thanks for the suggestion.

After trying that I still get the same results from xmms and aplay.