Installed KDE 4.1 - No Sound (Dell 700m) Intel chipset

[ksuth]

Greetings:

I have had kubuntu (8 & kde4) installed for about about 6 months now, and recently had problems with shutting down my computer as well as my WiFi picking up a signal. My brother suggested that since I have my hard drive partitioned, that I should reinstall Kubuntu and then upgrade to KDE 4.1.

Installation went well, but when I started the OS, I get the following message in the top right corner of my screen in a box titled phonon:

"The audio playback device HDA Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (STAC92xx Analog) does not work. Falling back to HDA Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (STAC92xx Analog)."

When I do aplay -l I get:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The following is what I get for lspci -v:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 700m/710m [SigmaTel STAC9750,51]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
Memory at e0100c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at e0100800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

If anyone can offer any help or suggestions they are welcome.

PS. I did try the suggestions from this thread, but they didn't work.

[ksuth]

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - No Sound (Dell 700m) Intel chipset

anyone?

[dibl]

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - No Sound (Dell 700m) Intel chipset

Let's have a look at the output of

lsmod

. We're looking for snd_hda_intel and perhaps a couple others like snd_mixer_oss and snd_pcm.

[ksuth]

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - No Sound (Dell 700m) Intel chipset

snd_intel8x0      35356 2                
snd_ac97_codec    101028 1 
snd_intel8x0         

snd_ac97_codec        
snd_pcm_oss      42144 0                
snd_mixer_oss     17920 1 snd_pcm_oss          
snd_pcm        78596 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss

snd_seq_oss      35584 0                
snd_seq_midi      9376 0                
snd_rawmidi      25760 1 snd_seq_midi         
snd_seq_midi_event   8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi   

snd_seq        54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event                  
dcdbas         9504 0                
serio_raw        7940 0                
snd_timer       24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq        
snd_seq_device     9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq

[dibl]

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - No Sound (Dell 700m) Intel chipset

I think the solution might be here:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gam...rds-found.html

The module name when it is listed in the file /etc/modules is snd-intel8x0 vs snd_intel8x0. So you will edit that file with kate in super-user mode, by doing Alt-F2 "kdesu kate /etc/modules" with no quote marks. You may or may not have an existing /etc/modules file -- if not, it will come up blank and you will make the one-line addition of snd-intel8x0 and then save it. If there is existing text in the file, you will add your module as the new last line, and then make sure you add a return at the end of it. You'll have to shutdown and reboot to have that module loaded, and then we'll see if you have ALSA capability.

[ksuth]

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - No Sound (Dell 700m) Intel chipset

didn't work....

[czheng]

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - No Sound (Dell 700m) Intel chipset

I have actually had this same problem on my Thinkpad. For me, it was a question of the system detecting the same device twice, or something like that. Essentially, when I went to set my audio hardware configuration in System Settings, my device was listed twice. The one set as default was greyed out (as if not available), so I just set the other one as the default and the warnings disappeared.

Hope that's helpful.