Hi,
I recently bought a gigabyte GA-7VTXH mainboard, which provides an
onboard ct5880 sound chip.
This chip is said to be supported by the alsa snd-card-ens1371
module (The same chip seems to be found on some SoundBlaster 128 PCI
cards).
The sound chip is successfully detected by linux:
when I do a /sbin/lspci -v I find;
...
00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device a000
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at dc00 [size=64]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
...
However when I try to load the snd-card-ens1371 module, all I get is
(sysadm@localhost:43) modprobe snd-card-ens1371
/lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO
or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o: insmod snd-card-ens1371 failed
I got the most recent alsa-driver version (0.9.0-beta10a) compiled and
installed without problems, but I still get this error message.
I compiled with debug option and /var/log/messages has some further
info:
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:582: codec write timeout at
0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:637: es1371: codec read timeout
at 0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:582: codec write timeout at
0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:637: es1371: codec read timeout
at 0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:582: codec write timeout at
0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:637: es1371: codec read timeout
at 0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:582: codec write timeout at
0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:04 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:637: es1371: codec read timeout
at 0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:05 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Jan 5 14:39:05 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:582: codec write timeout at
0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:05 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:637: es1371: codec read timeout
at 0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:05 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Jan 5 14:39:05 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:582: codec write timeout at
0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:05 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:637: es1371: codec read timeout
at 0xdc14 [0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:39:05 localhost kernel: ALSA ac97_codec.c:1419: AC'97 0:0 does not respond -
RESET [REC_GAIN = 0x0]
Jan 5 14:39:05 localhost kernel: ALSA card-ens1370.c:2043: Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard
not found or device busy
Jan 5 14:40:00 localhost /USR/SBIN/CRON[1010]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
looks a bit strange to me: the driver is snd-card-ens137*1*, the messages
come from card-ens137*0*.c
When I restore the driver that came with my linux distribution (suse 7.3)
I get
Jan 5 14:52:22 localhost kernel: snd: es1371: codec write timeout at 0xdc14
[0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:52:22 localhost kernel: snd: es1371: codec read timeout at 0xdc14
[0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:52:22 localhost kernel: snd: es1371: codec read timeout at 0xdc14
[0x40000000]
Jan 5 14:52:22 localhost kernel: snd: The AC'97 access is not valid, removing mixer.
Jan 5 14:52:22 localhost kernel: snd: Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard #1 not found or
device busy
which seems basically the same problem.
Now the question is: is there anything I could try to get the sound chip
running under linux? It runs well under windows, so the hardware should
be ok. Or do I have to face, that this onboard sound will not work under
linux?
any help welcome.
tnx & greetings
Morus
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