Problems with Intel Sound

[Bill Davidsen]

Jim wrote:
> FC8- i386
> Having problem with Intel Sound and Modem drivers.
> Sound will work if I do a sound test in KDE control center but it won't 
> play sound  on Flash videos.
> I noticed that sound and PCM is up in Kmix, but checking Alsamixer sound 
> is up but it doesn't show any PCM in ALSA.
> In /etc/modprobe it showing conflicts with the Modem driver HSF 
> Modem-7.68.00.07 that I compiled.
> below is modprobe.conf and lspci for Sound card.

You should ask the vendor for the hsf sound card how to configure it. 
You are calling it a modem, but it seems to be doing a good job of 
pretending to be sound. :-(
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0012
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
>         I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
>         I/O ports at e080 [size=64]
>         Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
>         Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
>  
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> alias eth0 3c59x
> install snd-via82xx-modem /bin/true # temporarily disabled by hsf - conflicts with hsfmc97via
> install snd-intel8x0m /bin/true # temporarily disabled by hsf - conflicts with hsfmc97ich hsfmc97sis
> install snd-atiixp-modem /bin/true # temporarily disabled by hsf - conflicts with hsfmc97ati
> alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
> alias /dev/modem /dev/ttySHSF
> alias char-major-240 /dev/ttySHSF
> alias char-major-240-* /dev/ttySHSF
> options hsfserial serialmajor=240
> alias char-major-242 hsfosspec
> alias char-major-242-* hsfosspec
> alias /dev/hsfdiag hsfosspec
> alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
> alias char-major-243 /dev/hsfdiag
> alias char-major-243-* /dev/hsfdiag
> options hsfosspec dcpmajor=242 diagmajor=243
> install /dev/ttySHSF /sbin/modprobe hsfpcibasic2; /sbin/modprobe hsfpcibasic3; /sbin/modprobe hsfmc97ich; /sbin/modprobe hsfmc97via; /sbin/modprobe hsfmc97ali; /sbin/modprobe hsfmc97ati; /sbin/modprobe hsfmc97sis; [ -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/hsfusbcd2.ko ] && /sbin/modprobe hsfusbcd2; /sbin/modprobe snd_hda_intel; /bin/true
> alias symbol:cnxthwhda_probe hsfhda
> alias symbol:cnxthwhda_resume hsfhda
> alias symbol:cnxthwhda_suspend hsfhda
> 


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