Sound in linux? ASUS P5AD2, Fedora Core III
I have an ASUS P5AD2 premium motherboard with C-Media CMI 9880 sound built into the motherboard. In the bios there are two options: AC'97 and HD Audio I'm running Fedora Core III, kernel 2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp. Kudzu doesn't see the sound"card" when either option is set. I'm wondering if anyone has been able to successfully get their sound working from this motherboard? I suspect that I need some "drivers", but a visit to the C-Media website doesn't identify any drivers for the 9880 series... Suggestions? By the way, I would not recommend this motherboard if you plan to use linux, its software is clearly made for Windows environments. Thanks, -Ben |
Benjamin Johnson wrote:
I have an ASUS P5AD2 premium motherboard with C-Media CMI 9880 sound built into the motherboard. In the bios there are two options: AC'97 and HD Audio I'm running Fedora Core III, kernel 2.6.10-1.737_FC3smp. Kudzu doesn't see the sound"card" when either option is set. I'm wondering if anyone has been able to successfully get their sound working from this motherboard? I suspect that I need some "drivers", but a visit to the C-Media website doesn't identify any drivers for the 9880 series... Suggestions? By the way, I would not recommend this motherboard if you plan to use linux, its software is clearly made for Windows environments. Thanks, -Ben That's interesting, I'm running Fedora core 2 on a box and the sound works fine with no configuration at all. I think (but I may be wrong) that PC'97 is some sort of standard, and I would expect it to work under Linux with no problems. My machine isn't particularly common either, it's a Soltek board with sound, graphics, and a C3 CPU onboard. Interestingly it's '6-Channel AC'97 Audio'! When I got Fedora 2, Fedora 3 was only a Beta, yours isn't a Beta is it? If it's a Beta then I don't know whether that could be partly the problem? |
Benjamin Johnson wrote:
Kudzu doesn't see the sound"card" when either option is set. That happens sometimes. I don't know how hard it is for you to set it up right. One option is to buy a cheap standard sound card and disable the onboard sound. I find that such a card with a CM8738 chipset sets up without problems. See also: comp.os.linux.hardware comp.os.linux.setup comp.os.linux.misc comp.os.linux.redhat linux.redhat linux.redhat.misc groups.google.com |
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Benjamin Johnson wrote in message ... On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 wrote: Interestingly it's '6-Channel AC'97 Audio'! "alsa" doesn't see the card, I've tried to use modprobe (naively, and unsucessfully) to look for the card.. So I guess I'm just looking for a pseudo checklist from someone who knows about these things, or has experienced similar problems. -Ben I had the exact problem in Debian. Ran 'alsa-config' and 'sndconfig' and, even tho alsa couldn't see the AC97, it started working. See if you can find those packages in your distribution. I know mine is running under an "i810_audio" module. Try modconf and see if "i810_audio" is there. Let us know how it goes. http://www.linux.org/ look for "The Linux Sound HOWTO" I know I have some better sound set-up documentation, but, I'm reworking my Library on this machine and can't find them right now. Sorry I couldn't be more help at this time. -- Bob R POVrookie -- MinGW (GNU compiler): http://www.mingw.org/ Dev-C++ IDE: http://www.bloodshed.net/ POVray: http://www.povray.org/ alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++: ftp://snurse-l.org/pub/acllc-c++/faq |
Matt wrote:
Benjamin Johnson wrote: Kudzu doesn't see the sound"card" when either option is set. That happens sometimes. I don't know how hard it is for you to set it up right. One option is to buy a cheap standard sound card and disable the onboard sound. I find that such a card with a CM8738 chipset sets up without problems. See also: comp.os.linux.hardware comp.os.linux.setup comp.os.linux.misc comp.os.linux.redhat linux.redhat linux.redhat.misc groups.google.com OfficeMax has a sound card free after rebate this week. See www.techbargains.com |
Matt wrote:
Matt wrote: Benjamin Johnson wrote: Kudzu doesn't see the sound"card" when either option is set. That happens sometimes. I don't know how hard it is for you to set it up right. One option is to buy a cheap standard sound card and disable the onboard sound. I find that such a card with a CM8738 chipset sets up without problems. See also: comp.os.linux.hardware comp.os.linux.setup comp.os.linux.misc comp.os.linux.redhat linux.redhat linux.redhat.misc groups.google.com OfficeMax has a sound card free after rebate this week. See www.techbargains.com In my case I think it's a setup issue, FC1 and FC2 had sound on my laptop, so FC3 *may* have a problem. -- bill davidsen ) SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center Project Leader, USENET news http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com |
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