Hardware Talk :: How to detect onboard (asus board) sound?



since you don't see ;

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev xx)

then it looks like it is not detected.

I used to have an Asus board. Does it look like to have a jumper that can enable/disable the onboard audio ?

edit: also found this;
http://www.bcom.de/ftp/treiber/Asus/Hanb%FCcher/a7m266-104.pdf
(i guess you already tried http://www.cmedia.com.tw/?q=en/driver)
Try a bios update, and then these boot codes ->
acpi=noirq
irqpoll
pci=biosirq
pci=usepirqmask
pci=routeirq

found from google..

Also check if changing the "Plug and play OS" option in bios affects anything.
It's a via combo bridge. I have a similar via based board

Code Sample

order*dsl@srp:~ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Transmeta Corporation LongRun Northbridge (rev 03)
00:00.1 RAM memory: Transmeta Corporation SDRAM controller
00:00.2 RAM memory: Transmeta Corporation BIOS scratchpad
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge] (rev 10)
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1e)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1e)
00:11.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI (rev 10)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 51)

order*dsl@srp:~ dmesg | grep -i via
<6>VP_IDE: VIA vt8231 (rev 10) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1
<6>via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19  July-12-2003  Written by Donald Becker
<6>  http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
<6>eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xe2101000, 00:0e:7f:aa:07:fa, IRQ 15.
<6>Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3
<6>ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: VIA97 (Unknown)
<6>via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xE000, IRQ 10

order*dsl@srp:~ lsmod | grep via
via82cxxx_audio        19448   1
ac97_codec             11916   0 [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401                 6052   0 [via82cxxx_audio]
sound                  55276   0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore               3428   4 [via82cxxx_audio sound]


Your via chip and mine are driven by the same driver, so there's a chance you can use this info.
Can you check lsmod, see if any of those are loaded?
Also, run
dmesg | grep -i "via"
since the driver doesn't have 8233 in it's name

And for the pin A thing, it seems that that might be an unsupported bios raid option thing with your motherboard.

Are you booting no-acpi? On mine, the acpi is 11.4, with the audio at 11.5. If you turn off the acpi, maybe that's disabling the audio along with it?

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As for the possible c-media controller, you would need the c-media pci module, which dsl has as /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/cmpci.o

And it might not be a c8738.
According to hardware4linux.info, it might be a ENS1371 Ensoniq / Sound Blaster 16PCI 4.1ch [Multimedia audio controller], but they have multiple a7v333 boards, listing either the cmedia or ensoniq controllers. None have a via bridge based controller. So try these first.

http://hardware4linux.info/systems/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=228657
http://www.geocities.com/paul_galbraith/debian-a7v333.html

The ENS1371 is module
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o

You might also want to try
modinfo cmpci es1371
to find some of their options.

Could there be any icq conflicts? Have you tried without the winmodem (I assume its pci, no?)

Finally, which slots are you using for the cards?
According to http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardwar....ms.html
There seems to be an issue with slot 5 and 3 on the a7v333. (remove any card in slot 5)

According to
http://forums.modojo.com/showthread.php?t=49054&page=5
there seems to be an issue with sound blaster live cards and the a7v333, in general. Do you have another one you can try?

Last, what revision number is the motherboard?
... and you could just look on the asus site
The Asus site had nothing about this board, as far as I could find...it seems to be unsupported now, and the asus website lacks any logical navigation.

lsmod shows no audio

I tried both xubuntu and dynebolic, and neither distro detected the sound controller.  I wonder if it might be broken, or maybe so old that it's obsolete.

I haven't tried the other suggestions yet.  So far the bios updates I've found have been Windows binaries.

The suggestion about the slots is interesting, though....I've never heard about this issue.  slot 5 has nothing, but slot 3 has a firewire controler.

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Are you booting no-acpi? On mine, the acpi is 11.4, with the audio at 11.5. If you turn off the acpi, maybe that's disabling the audio along with it?
Yes, I am using noacpi...honestly not sure why. It was probably just a default I didn't bother to change since I don't understand what most of the boot options do.

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there seems to be an issue with sound blaster live cards and the a7v333, in general. Do you have another one you can try?
unfortunately the soundblaster is the only modular card I have..there are a couple other machines here but they both use onboard sound.

board version number is 1.02

Code Sample
dsl@bungle:~$ dmesg | grep -i "via"
<6>PCI: Via IRQ fixup
<6>VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
<6>ehci_hcd 00:09.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
<6>agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT266 chipset


I tried loading sb and es1371 and both failed.
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