[Cooker] Gigabyte Realtek Audio Controller (was Re: Boot images)

[Michael Altizer]

Of course, I was not thinking when I sent this out and did not include 
specifics of the problem with the sound.

Testing with XMMS:
ALSA: No output to speakers.
OSS: Normal playback but with interspersed and frequent garbled sound.
Artsd (with OSS selected as Audio I/O): Works perfectly (-wierd-).
Artsd (autoselect I/O): Just loud static, no other sound.
Testing with MPlayer:
ALSA: Audio appears to be working, but Audio and Video go at ~1.2x speed.
OSS: Works normally.
Artsd (Any I/O setting): Loud static.
Basically any use of Artsd results in a large amount of loud static and 
nothing else.  Setting OSS as the Audio I/O seems to work for the first 
few outputs, then it reverts to the static.
All of the below information still applies.

Michael Altizer wrote:

Thomas Backlund wrote:

<snip>
but when you use the blank.img you can't easily support any modules,
or initrd, so you have to build a custom kernel, where you can use the
above mentioned config as a start, but you have to remove is's module
and initrd support...(chosing 'N' in the xconfig/menuconfig/config)
and every h/w and fs you need to support during installation,
has to be compiled in... (chosing 'Y' in the xconfig/menuconfig/config)
Now, the next question is of course...
why do you need to do all this?
Doesn't the installerkernel support your system?
Regards

Thomas
 

   I was troubleshooting since I was having numerous problems when 
trying to install, but it turned out to be that my RAM was being run 
at .1V too low :). (Silly Gigabyte 8KNXP board defaults to 2.5V for 
memory modules.)  I was still getting an error with network.img after 
fixing this, the installation exiting after downloading, it seems, 
only part of the second stage install (exits with error about not 
being able to execute /bin/installstage2 or somesuch), but I was able 
to install from newly burned RC2 CDs.
   On a semi-related note, has anyone found a way to use the 
integrated soundcard on a Gigabyte 8KNXP board?  lspci reports:
/00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio 
Controller (rev 02)/
Motherboard info says the chip is Realtek ALC655 CODEC (i875P)
ALSA wants to use snd-intel8x0 module, but also appears to be loading 
up a number of oss modules.
/snd-seq-oss               37088   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event   6592   0  [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq                      49904   2  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss              46820   0
snd-mixer-oss            15992   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0               24004   0
snd-ac97-codec         50072   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm                     89856   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-page-alloc           10068   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd-timer                   21092   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart      5436   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi              19520   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          6300   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd                             45476   0  [snd-seq-oss 
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss 
snd-intel8x0       snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart 
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore                  7236   0  [snd]
/
-Michael