Sound (and wireless) on new Presario R3000
Reshat Sabiq
sabiq at csociety.org
Sun Jul 18 05:47:45 UTC 2004
It appears that my sound card driver is snd-atiixp-modem. It comes with
alsa-driver package. However, when i changed modprobe.conf to use it, it
didn't work. Then i changed it back to atiixp (after installing latest
alsa-driver), and now i am able to play sound files (like .wav) in xmms,
which uses ALSA. However, the rest of Gnome appears to be using esd (i
see esd running in ps). There is a IRQ conflict in esd i guess, and it
causes 1 second of sound to be played over and over for about 15
seconds, i.e. worse than no sound at all.
I'd appareciate feedback on the following:
1) should i change everything to be based on ALSA? If no, i'd appreciate
tips on resolving what appears to be IRQ conflict.
2) which tools do i use to set which sound architecture is to be used
(esd, alsa, oss, etc.)?
alsamixer reports the card as ATI IXP, Analog Devices AD1981B. I believe
it's integrated with the modem (don't know why that makes sense).
messages file contains many lines saying
... atiixp: codec read timeout
and then
modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1 (same
for 2 and 3).
Also, when i had no sound my wireless card was working. Now it isn't,
and i believe the IRQ conflict is to blame.
lspci contains this:
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97
Audio Controller
Subssystem: HP Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: 66Mhz, slow devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at e8003400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Thanks,
<rsa/>
Reshat Sabiq wrote:
> Kris Haight wrote:
>
>> ...
>> This is why I disagree with people who say there should not be an
>> option for
>> this when installing. If there was an option it would be easy to say
>> "when
>> you are setting up drives, select this optiom". Even if the option is
>> burried under two or three menus.
>>
>> Anyhow I hope this helps.
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks for your reply. Per my earlier post, the problem is solved. It
> was because /boot was logical and Disk Druid accepted it. I logged a
> defect in bugzilla.
>
> My last problem i'm aware of is that sound card is detected
> incorrectly, and i don't know much about it. It says Analog Devices
> Inc., SoundMax Digital Audio in XP. It gets detected as <model>IXP150
> AC'97 Audio Controller</model>, <module>snd-atiixp</module>. And test
> sounds and the rest fail in both Gnome and KDE.
> This is a brand new laptop, and HP support couldn't give me specifics
> about the sound card. I am afraid even if i find out what the card is,
> there might not be a driver for it.
> Btw. sndconfig is no longer applicable, because sound architecture has
> changed.
>
> P.S. Also, the only driver i found for this laptop's integrated
> wireless card (Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g), costs $20 after 1
> month: http://www.linuxant.com/company/. I will probably settle for it
> if i don't find anything else, but any tips to avoid $20 expense are
> appreciated. I hear that HP support couldn't help others with this
> card other than saying buy a different one. The URL above might
> actually come in handy for many other users as well, and may qualify
> as a QA entry. I spent nearly a day to come up with it. The linuxant
> solution appears somewhat slower than performance on XP, but overall
> is a pretty decent way to go. At least with the wireless i know of
> this way to have it working. With sound, i don't have a clue yet.
> Although frankly i haven't focused on it yet.
>
> Thanks,
> <rsa/>
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