[lug] Wierd audio problems nforce 2 chip set, suse 9.1

Paul Nowosielski Paul at danamusic.com
Wed Jul 28 08:07:35 MDT 2004


I'm aware that the output from my last mail looks like video stuff
but I didn't install any video drivers on the 15th of July.
Thats why I think this problem is due to kernel updates.

My chipset is nvidia so eth0, sound and vid are all on-board nvidia.

Here is th lspci info.

power:/home/p51 # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different
version?) (rev c1)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1
(rev c1)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4
(rev c1)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3
(rev c1)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2
(rev c1)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5
(rev c1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a3)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a3)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a3)
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet
Controller (rev a1)
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce
MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2
AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge
(rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
0000:00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire
(IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
0000:01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA
TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18
[GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)


All I have plugged into the pci bus is 2  nvidia graphic cards.

Hope this helps..

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 18:19, Hugh Brown wrote:
> Those all look like the video chipset stuff, not the audio.
> 
> What's the output of lspci
> 
> Hugh
> 
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 19:10, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> > Ok, I went through the logs and found this:
> > 
> > power:/home/p51/tmp/nforce # cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
> > nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
> > creation time: Thu Jul 15 21:48:57 2004
> > 
> > option status:
> >   license pre-accepted    : true
> >   update                  : false
> >   force update            : false
> >   expert                  : false
> >   uninstall               : true
> >   driver info             : false
> >   no precompiled interface: false
> >   no ncurses color        : false
> >   query latest driver ver : false
> >   OpenGL header files     : false
> >   no questions            : true
> >   silent                  : true
> >   XFree86 install prefix  : /usr/X11R6
> >   OpenGL install prefix   : /usr
> >   Installer install prefix: /usr
> >   kernel source path      : (not specified)
> >   kernel install path     : (not specified)
> >   proc mount point        : /proc
> >   ui                      : none
> >   tmpdir                  : /tmp
> >   ftp site                : ftp://download.nvidia.com
> > 
> > Using built-in stream user interface
> > -> Parsing log file:
> > -> done.
> > -> Validating previous installation:
> > -> Unable to access previously installed file
> > 
> >     ## this is bad, yes?
> > 
> >    '/lib/modules/2.6.4-54.5-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko' (No
> > such
> >    file or directory).
> > -> done.
> > WARNING: Your driver installation has been altered since it was
> > initially
> >          installed; this may happen, for example, if you have since
> > installed
> >          the NVIDIA driver through a mechanism other than the
> > nvidia-installer
> >          (such as rpm or with the NVIDIA tarballs).  The
> > nvidia-installer will
> >          attempt to uninstall as best it can.  Please see the file
> >          '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.
> > -> Uninstalling NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86
> > (1.0-5336):
> > -> done.
> > -> Uninstallation of existing driver: NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver
> > for
> >    Linux-x86 (1.0-5336) is complete.
> > 
> > 
> > So I think the kernel modules were not compiled for this new kernel.
> > But check this out:
> > 
> > power:/home/p51/tmp/nforce # lsmod |grep nv
> > nvidia               2070120  0
> > nvram                   8456  0
> > nvidia_agp              7708  1
> > agpgart                30888  1 nvidia_agp
> > 
> > 
> > So some of the modules are still there.
> > 
> > I'm guessing I have to re-compile the kernel with nvidia support (
> > available in 2.6 ) or just wait for Suse to come out with an update.
> > 
> > Do you think this is a proper conclusion??
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 06:22, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:07, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > >  I'm hoping someone can help with this audio dilemma.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm running Suse 9.1 on an Nvidia nforce chipset with on-board sound.
> > > > I have never had a problem till about a week ago ~every thing~ worked
> > > > perfect. I could record audio, listen etc etc. 
> > > > 
> > > > Now when I try to open any recording software I get this error 
> > > > 
> > > > "direct access to the sound device not possible, No soundcard available
> > > > or sound support not configured yet....."
> > > > 
> > > >  Mplayer does not play any audio now also.
> > > > 
> > > > But xmms plays audio fine.
> > > > 
> > > > I added a second soundcard (sound blaster live)  and had the same
> > > > problems( this card worked with machine in the past).
> > > > 
> > > > I haven't made any major changes to hardware/software on the system
> > > > but I do have the automatic updates setup and there have been some
> > > > kernel upgrades recently.
> > > > 
> > > > Also there is no /dev/dsp but there is 
> > > > /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp2 and /dev/dsp3
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas about this be be greatly appreciated. I had to break out an
> > > > old windoze box yesterday to perform rudimentary audio tasks :(
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'd start looking through the various log files in /var/log for clues.
> > > 
> > > Hugh
> > > 
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