No sound, no soundcard found, in Puppy 2.16

Problems and successes with specific brands/models of computer audio hardware
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silverojo
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No sound, no soundcard found, in Puppy 2.16

#1 Post by silverojo »

I've used older versions of Puppy with no sound problems, but now I can't get the sound to work.


The ALSA sound wizard couldn't find my sound card (SiS 7018 Wave Audio Driver), so I tried many things that were suggested on this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=18486

And all I got were messages basically stating that I have no sound card. WTH??

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sh-3.00# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:222: no soundcards found...

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sh-3.00# scanpci

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0730
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x01: vendor 0x1039 device 0x5513
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0018
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x01: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0900
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x02: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7001
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x03: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7001
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x03: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7001
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x04: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7018
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x06: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7013
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0001
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x09 function 0x00: vendor 0x11c1 device 0x5802
 Agere Systems USS-312 USB Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0b function 0x00: vendor 0x131f device 0x2020
 Siig Inc CyberParallel (1-port)

pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x6300
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630/730 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

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sh-3.00# lsmod grep "snd"
Usage: lsmod

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sh-3.00# rmmod snd_via82xx
ERROR: Module snd_via82xx does not exist

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sh-3.00# modprobe snd_via82xx ac97_quirk=0
FATAL: Module snd_via82xx not found.
I tried playing the 2barks.wav....

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sh-3.00# aplay /usr/share/audio/2barks.wav
ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such device

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sh-3.00# rmmod snd_via82xx
ERROR: Module snd_via82xx does not exist in /proc/modules
You get the idea.... :?

For the record, my soundcard works fine in Windows, so it's definitely functioning.

Older versions of Puppy found my soundcard automatically...what can I do to make this version of Puppy find and be able to use it? Can I do anything with the command line, that I can't seem to do with the ALSA sound wizard?

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#2 Post by silverojo »

Um...anybody? :)

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#3 Post by gdemonta »

I found on this thread a remark from Tempestuous for this chipset, and someone succeeded doing

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modprobe snd-trident

on the command line (from this post)
Hope that helps
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#4 Post by silverojo »

I'll give it a try...thanks!

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#5 Post by davidlandy »

Thanks for the link, gdemonta!

Modprobe didn't work for me but I applied the rc.modules2.gz patch posted by Dougal, rebooted, and hey presto - sound!

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=172420

:-D

David

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