Try compiling your own kernel. I know from my experience I the arch kernel fucked up my sound card really bad. Like I'd play a sound and it'll repeat all muffled. I know this is not a real solution but I've never had luck with arch's kernels.
On 2/21/06, Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kernel wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm encoutering an annoying issue with my soundcard, and have done > > some googling but an explanation continues to elude me. Here's my > > scenario...99% of the time I am running Arch v0.7.1, but I multi-boot > > my laptop and occasionally boot into WinXP...whenever I do that and > > then subsequently boot into Arch, my soundcard does not work. > > Subsequent reboots into Arch continue to have issues where the > > soundcard does not appear to be initialized properly. I have an old > > Fedora Core 4 installation on this system as well (used it prior to > > discovering Arch) and the sound card will continue to work properly in > > that installation. Now, here is where it really gets interesting for > > me...I generally have only one peripheral plugged into my system, a > > USB mouse...however, if I shutdown my system from Arch with the > > soundcard not working, attach a USB hard-drive I have, and boot into > > Arch again, the soundcard starts working again. Now aside from not > > booting into Windows anymore, does anyone have any > > suggestions/thoughts as to what is going on here? I've included some > > system specs below.,,This problem has occurred on vanila 2.6.14 & > > 2.6.15 kernels, Arch base 2.6.14 & 2.6.15 kernels, as well as the > > archck kernels 2.6.14 & 2.6.15. I do have AUTOLOAD enabled in my > > rc.conf file. I've also tried manually installing older 1.0.9 alsa > > (from source) and the latest stable 1.0.10 (from source). I don't use > > the "testing" repo on this installation, just current, community & > > extra, and I generally run "pacman -Syu" daily. TIA... > > > > Here's some gory details... > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/var/log] # lspci | grep Audio > > 00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > > Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/var/log] # cat /etc/modprobe.conf > > # > > # /etc/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels) > > # > > # Added by ndiswrapper > > alias wlan0 ndiswrapper > > # Manually added for kqemu > > install kqemu modprobe -i kqemu major=0 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/etc] # grep DAEMON rc.conf > > # DAEMONS > > DAEMONS=(hwd gensplash syslog-ng alsa dbus hal acpid !sensors network > > bluetooth !portmap !netfs sshd crond cups lisa !avupdater gpm) > > > > When the soundcard is working fine, the device is "recognized" by > > KDE's kmixer app as an "HDA Intel". Here is an lsmod of any "snd" > > modules: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/var/log] # lsmod | grep snd > > snd_seq_oss 27264 0 > > snd_seq_midi_event 5760 1 snd_seq_oss > > snd_seq 43408 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > > snd_seq_device 6540 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > > snd_pcm_oss 41632 0 > > snd_mixer_oss 14720 1 snd_pcm_oss > > snd_hda_intel 12688 1 > > snd_hda_codec 76416 1 snd_hda_intel > > snd_pcm 68996 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec > > snd_timer 18692 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > > snd 42084 11 > > snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer > > soundcore 7392 1 snd > > snd_page_alloc 7688 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > > > > A snippet from my messages.log file... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/var/log] # grep hda_codec messages.log > > Feb 17 23:48:56 sith hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC880, trying > > auto-probe from BIOS... > > Feb 17 23:48:56 sith hda_codec: Cannot set up configuration from > > BIOS. Using 3-stack mode... > > > > When the soundcard is NOT working, the KDE app kmixer reports the > > sound device as: Realtek ALC880 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/var/log] # lsmod | grep snd > > snd_seq_oss 27264 0 > > snd_seq_midi_event 5760 1 snd_seq_oss > > snd_seq 43408 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > > snd_seq_device 6540 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > > snd_pcm_oss 41632 0 > > snd_mixer_oss 14720 2 snd_pcm_oss > > snd_hda_intel 12688 1 > > snd_hda_codec 76416 1 snd_hda_intel > > snd_pcm 68996 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec > > snd_timer 18692 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > > snd 42084 9 > > snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer > > soundcore 7392 2 snd > > snd_page_alloc 7688 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/var/log] # grep hda_codec messages.log > > Feb 17 23:39:18 sith hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC880, trying > > auto-probe from BIOS... > > Feb 17 23:39:18 sith hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 > > Feb 17 23:39:18 sith hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 > > Feb 17 23:39:18 sith hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 > > Feb 17 23:39:56 sith hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xb > > Feb 17 23:40:01 sith hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xb > > > > -- > > **************** > > jps > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arch mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > I've had weird things like this happen to me too after booting from Windows. > > Sometimes my hard drive will not initialize when warm booting from > windows and Arch will not detect the partitions. Other times, my TV card > or USB joysticks will not turn on. > > I have always made it a habit to cold boot my machine if I want to > switch between Windows and Linux (Even though that happens maybe 2 times > a month). > > But, the weird thing is SUSE and Fedora never had this problem. Maybe > its something to do with the way Arch reads the bios, but I would think > that would be a kernel thing. > > Who knows ;) > > Try Cold booting each time and see if that works. > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > -- Matthew | Website http://msg43.net | AIM: MSG431 | MSN + Gmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
