Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

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Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

Post by tkalfaoglu » 2010/02/24 18:52:38

I tried pretty much everything, but I cannot get sound from a machine that has the M4A785-M motherboard,
and a Radeon HD 4670..

My details are at: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=34ba2141c86cb61c4207002fc9a9a4f5ef0e78a8
I would appreciate any assistance..

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Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

Post by pschaff » 2010/02/24 19:02:44

Too much on the link for me to dig anything meaningful out of it. "Pretty much everything" tells us essentially nothing. See [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14274&forum=47]Readme First[/url] and [url=http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]Smart Questions[/url] for some hints.

More useful information would be for you to tell us what happens if you run system-config-soundcard, if you are sure you have un-muted everything in the mixer, and to show[code]
/sbin/lspci -m
/sbin/lspci -n
[/code][Edit: gs/pic/pci/]

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Re: Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

Post by tkalfaoglu » 2010/02/25 07:04:42

Many thanks for your reply. When I run system-config-soundcard,
the first page displays two sound cards:
First tab says ATI:
Maker: ATI
Model: Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
Module: snd-hda-intel

Underneath the PCM Device pull down box is empty. No values can be picked.

Second tab also says ATI:
Maker: ATI
Model: Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Module: snd-hda-intel

Again the PCM device option has no values to choose from.

lspic command was not found - I'll try to add it to my system and get back to you with its output.

Many thanks!
-turgut

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Re: Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

Post by tkalfaoglu » 2010/02/25 07:06:36

Oh, I think you meant the lspci command.. Here we go:

00:00.0 "Host bridge" "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" "RS780 Host Bridge Alternate" "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 83a2"
00:02.0 "PCI bridge" "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" "RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)" "" ""
00:0a.0 "PCI bridge" "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" "RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)" "" ""
00:11.0 "SATA controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode]" -p01 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:12.0 "USB Controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller" -p10 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:12.1 "USB Controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller" -p10 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:12.2 "USB Controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller" -p20 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:13.0 "USB Controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller" -p10 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:13.1 "USB Controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller" -p10 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:13.2 "USB Controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller" -p20 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:14.0 "SMBus" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SBx00 SMBus Controller" -r3c "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:14.1 "IDE interface" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700/SB800 IDE Controller" -p8a "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:14.2 "Audio device" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)" "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 836c"
00:14.3 "ISA bridge" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700/SB800 LPC host controller" "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:14.4 "PCI bridge" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge" -p01 "" ""
00:14.5 "USB Controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller" -p10 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 8389"
00:18.0 "Host bridge" "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" "K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration" "" ""
00:18.1 "Host bridge" "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" "K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map" "" ""
00:18.2 "Host bridge" "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" "K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller" "" ""
00:18.3 "Host bridge" "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" "K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control" "" ""
00:18.4 "Host bridge" "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]" "K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control" "" ""
01:00.0 "VGA compatible controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "RV730XT [Radeon HD 4670]" "Hightech Information System Ltd." "Unknown device 2268"
01:00.1 "Audio device" "ATI Technologies Inc" "R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]" "Hightech Information System Ltd." "Unknown device aa38"
02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd." "RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller" -r03 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Unknown device 83a3"
03:06.0 "Ethernet controller" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III]" -r86 "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT6106S [Rhine-III]"


00:00.0 0600: 1022:9601
00:02.0 0604: 1022:9603
00:0a.0 0604: 1022:9609
00:11.0 0106: 1002:4390
00:12.0 0c03: 1002:4397
00:12.1 0c03: 1002:4398
00:12.2 0c03: 1002:4396
00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4397
00:13.1 0c03: 1002:4398
00:13.2 0c03: 1002:4396
00:14.0 0c05: 1002:4385 (rev 3c)
00:14.1 0101: 1002:439c
00:14.2 0403: 1002:4383
00:14.3 0601: 1002:439d
00:14.4 0604: 1002:4384
00:14.5 0c03: 1002:4399
00:18.0 0600: 1022:1200
00:18.1 0600: 1022:1201
00:18.2 0600: 1022:1202
00:18.3 0600: 1022:1203
00:18.4 0600: 1022:1204
01:00.0 0300: 1002:9490
01:00.1 0403: 1002:aa38
02:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 03)
03:06.0 0200: 1106:3106 (rev 86)

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Re: Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

Post by tkalfaoglu » 2010/02/25 07:08:55

Btw, when things did not work, I googled and found that people recommended I add the ElRepo and try the drivers there.
So I enabled that repo, and re-installed: alsa-lib , alsa-utils, kmod-alsa. Things did not improve.
Currently I am working on disabling ElRepo and reinstalling stock alsa-lib and alsa-utils..


-turgut

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Re: Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

Post by pschaff » 2010/02/25 13:54:40

I'd recommend sticking with the ELRepo stuff, but let's get back to the hardware. Sorry about the typo - yes lspci is correct. From that info:[code]
$ grep -i 1002 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 4383
/lib/modules/2.6.18-128.1.10.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001002d00004383sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.10.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001002d00004383sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001002d00004383sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.9.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001002d00004383sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
$ grep -i 1002 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i aa38
/lib/modules/2.6.18-128.1.10.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001002d0000AA38sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.10.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001002d0000AA38sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001002d0000AA38sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.9.1.el5/modules.alias:alias pci:v00001002d0000AA38sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
[/code]
So there are kernel drivers for the "Audio" hardware, and the same driver is used for both. That's a bit confusing. Are there 2 sets of audio ports on the system? If so, have you tried both?

Is the module loaded?[code]lsmod | grep snd-hda-intel[/code]
If not found[code]modprobe snd-hda-intel[/code]

When you try to configure in system-config-soundcard and hit the "Play" (">") button for each device what happens? Does it return immediately, run a while silently, return an error, ...?

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Re: Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

Post by tkalfaoglu » 2010/04/22 08:18:02

thank you for your information.

I concluded that if I plug in a webcam, the whole system reverts to using that for microphone AND sound output,
and ignores anything else that is built-in..

This is a major deficiency.. -t

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Re: Cannot get any sound with ASUS M4A785-M motherboard

Post by pschaff » 2010/04/22 10:00:08

Also seems to be a known issue. Would have been good to mention that piece of the puzzle earlier. Please try a forum search for "webcam" and see http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams

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