Sound help AC97

[Stephane]

The problem might simply be because your CD drive is not connected to
the sound card.

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 22:55, Ronald J Boyer Jr wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> As my first post to the list, forgive me if I make a newbie mistake; and
> along with my greetings, thanks for everyone for all the help you offer
> here.
> 
> To start, I have FC1 freshly installed in a HP pavilion 551w:
> 
> =====
> CDROM: Mitsumi CR-48X9TE
> /dev/scd0
> 
> Hard Drive: SAMSUNG SV4002H
> /dev/hda
> 	hda1	ext3
> 	hda2	ext3
> 	hda3	linux-swap
> 
> Sound Cards: Sound Controller - SiS, driver i810_audio
> 
> =====
> 
> Problem:
> I can hear system sounds, but I can not play audio CD's through any
> application on my current system (full installation).
> 
> At first, I thought it may have been permissions, but I logged in as
> root and ran into the same problem -- no sound except system sounds.
> 
> After doing searches on the internet, trying to find the details about
> my sound card and how to get sound on my computer, I found that HP lists
> my sound as AC97 Audio. Further searches produce links to AC97 audio
> controller info...
> 
> In trying to resolute, I made matters worse (possibly) by following
> directions http://foolish.digitalinc.info/docs/alsa/.
> I worked my way down the page to "Loading the ALSA-drivers" and was
> guided to look up my sound card (yes, I know I should have found the
> exact details first, regarding compatibility - woops).
> 
> A few of the commands list on the above link didn't give me all the
> details I needed about my sound card (modprobe?), so I checked my system
> log and found the following:
> 
> =====
> May 15 11:13:31 localhost kernel: i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xb400 and
> 0xb800, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 9
> May 15 11:13:31 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller supports
> 6 channels.
> May 15 11:13:31 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2
> channel mode.
> May 15 11:13:31 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
> May 15 11:13:31 localhost kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id:
> ADS96 (Analog Devices AD1885)
> May 15 11:13:31 localhost kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to
> map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels = 2
> =====
> 
> At this point, I'm a bit lost, not knowing much about linux. I won't
> hesitate to do a fresh install if it will help due to tinkering with my
> driver information and if I can remedy this by changing my
> selections/choices during installation.
> 
> If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be a relief.
> Any advice would be appreciated. If anything, please use soft fruit if
> you start throwing things at me... I'm exiting stage left now.