Sound Card Not Working on Compaq Presario 2201 Laptop

Fri Nov 18 04:17:26 UTC 2005

Otto de Voogd (CompList) wrote:
> Do you get sound through the headphones?
> 
> If so look at my earlier post:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-November/msg01945.html
> (where I wrote active I meant activate).
> 
> Although I am using a Dell laptop, so I don't know if this would apply to a
> Compaq as well. But I guess it is worth a try.
> 
> Otto
> 
> --- Manish Kathuria <manish at tuxspace.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have been trying to make the sound card on my Compaq Presario 2201 
>>Centrino Laptop work without any success on either FC3 or FC4. The 
>>laptop is currently running FC4 with kernel 2.6.13. The sound card is an 
>>onboard audio controller on Intel 855 chipset motherboard. The output of 
>>lspci detecting the audio controller is as below:
>>
>>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV 
>>Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
>>00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
>>(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
>>
>>The system configured the generic intel8x0 sound module in the 
>>/etc/modprobe.conf.
>>
>>alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>>options snd-card-0 index=0
>>install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && 
>>/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>>remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
>>/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
>>
>>
>>The output of lsmod is as under showing that all the modules are loaded.
>>
>>Module                  Size  Used by
>>
>>snd_intel8x0m          19973  0
>>snd_intel8x0           37505  2
>>snd_ac97_codec         80829  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
>>snd_seq_dummy           3781  0
>>snd_seq_oss            42945  0
>>snd_seq_midi_event     10177  1 snd_seq_oss
>>snd_seq                78033  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
>>snd_seq_device          9165  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
>>snd_pcm_oss            53105  0
>>snd_mixer_oss          18241  1 snd_pcm_oss
>>snd_pcm               112201  5 
>>snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
>>snd_timer              42437  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>>snd                    62021  13 
>>
> 
> snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> 
>>soundcore              12449  1 snd
>>snd_page_alloc         10825  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
>>
>>What could be the problem with this ? I think that the intel8x0 might 
>>not be the right driver for this. Has anyone been able to make the sound 
>>work on the Compaq / HP Centrino Laptops ? Any suggestions or pointers ?
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Manish
>>
>>-- 

I checked up yours and other posts and tried things as suggested but its 
still not working. I could also not locate the  "analogue/digital output 
jack" as mentioned by someone else in Gnome as  well as the ALSA Mixer. 
I get these strange messages in my /var/log/messages whenever I try to 
play a sound file.

Nov 18 09:06:30 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x2a
Nov 18 09:06:31 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x2a
Nov 18 09:06:37 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0xa
Nov 18 09:06:39 triton last message repeated 29 times
Nov 18 09:07:47 triton kernel: codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x2c
Nov 18 09:08:21 triton last message repeated 25 times
Nov 18 09:08:22 triton last message repeated 9 times
Nov 18 09:08:23 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x18
Nov 18 09:08:24 triton last message repeated 21 times
Nov 18 09:08:26 triton kernel: codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x2c
Nov 18 09:08:28 triton last message repeated 9 times
Nov 18 09:08:29 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x18
Nov 18 09:08:30 triton last message repeated 38 times
Nov 18 09:08:54 triton kernel: codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x2c
Nov 18 09:09:26 triton last message repeated 28 times
Nov 18 09:09:26 triton last message repeated 6 times
Nov 18 09:13:11 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x1a
Nov 18 09:13:15 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x1a
Nov 18 09:14:52 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x26
Nov 18 09:14:53 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x26
Nov 18 09:15:09 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x1a
Nov 18 09:20:34 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x32
Nov 18 09:20:34 triton kernel: codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x32
Nov 18 09:21:35 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x2a
Nov 18 09:21:36 triton last message repeated 5 times
Nov 18 09:21:46 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x1a
Nov 18 09:21:48 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0xe
Nov 18 09:21:56 triton last message repeated 9 times
Nov 18 09:21:59 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x12
Nov 18 09:21:59 triton last message repeated 2 times
Nov 18 09:22:00 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x1a
Nov 18 09:22:02 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x12
Nov 18 09:22:02 triton last message repeated 7 times
Nov 18 09:22:04 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x1a
Nov 18 09:22:05 triton kernel: codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x10
Nov 18 09:22:06 triton last message repeated 18 times
Nov 18 09:22:31 triton kernel: codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for 
register 0x2c
Nov 18 09:22:49 triton last message repeated 20 times

I have a feeling that this might have something to do it.

Any suggestions ?

--
Manish