ac97 sound device not detected (alc655 codec)

[Gergo Szakal]

On 04 Jan 2007 03:05:58 GMT
Vincent Stemen <vs1 at crel.us> wrote:

> Hi.  Are there any known bugs in detecting ac97 sound devices?  It does
> not detect ours at all.  We tried on the 1.6.0 kernel and on the
> 1.7.0-preview from CVS yesterday.   We loaded snd.ko module manually and
> also tried loading snd_pcm with loader at boot time.  If I understand
> correctly, snd_pcm is the one that handles the ac97 devices.   
> 
> Every time we load the snd module, we also get this error
>     fdc0: cannot reserve interrupt line
> printed about 6 or 7 times to the system log
> 
> When I cat /dev/sndstat, this is all I get:
>     FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
>     Installed devices:
> 
> The sound works fine on NetBSD.  NetBSD reports that it is an ALC655
> codec using IRQ 10.
> 
> We looked in the sys/dev/sound/pcm/ac97.c file and that codec is listed
> in the ac97_codecid structure.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

We have to know the type of your card (pciconf -lv can be your friend), and you have to load the module (=='driver') for it anyway (for my i810, it's snd_ich).

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Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars at gmail.com>
University Of Szeged, HU
Faculty Of General Medicine

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