Redhat 8.0 nforce sound locks up computer

[jsampson69]

i installed the new redhat 8.0 compatable nforce drivers today, the network card works great, but the sound is a different story, first off i had to modify my modules.conf from sound-slot-1 to sound-slot-0 because before i would get no sound and an error during shut down about cant find sound-slot-0, so that took care of that, but with the new setting when i shut down now i get (i810_audio: timed out waiting for codec 1 analog ready) and it just sits there only the restart switch can get it moving again. Upon reboot and logging in... to either gnome or KDE it happens with both.. my computer locks up agian.. completly, ctrl alt F1 or delete has no effect again i have to restart. for now i have added # in front of my sound-slot-0 line to get into gnome or kde.

P.S DO the ALSA drivers work the sound card on the nforce better than the modified i810_audio from nvidia? or are there no advantages to either?

[DaMaxx]

Well I too am having problems with the audio. I had no problems getting the nvnet to work. Kudzu even identified that the audio-device was there. But I still get the same error from the volume controller:

"I was not able to open your audio device.
Please check that you have permission to open /dev/mixer and make sure you have sound support compiled into you kernel."

Kudzu didnt even notice the audio was there until I upgraded the linux kernel. but then the nvnet didnt work again, so I rebuilt the nforce drivers again, this in turn worked fine for the nvnet and it refound the audio hardware. I clicked the configure button in kudzu and it quit and continued loading the OS.

Help.

[Andy Mecham]

You shouldn't need to install the NVIDIA audio driver with Red Hat 8.0 - it's the same as the kernel's i810_audio driver. We distribute a version of the driver updated with our PCI ID for older distros that didn't include it.

Do you have ac97_codec and soundcore inserted?

--andy

[Cheshiremackat]

Hey... I had the same problem in RH 7.3 and am still having trouble getting the sound to work as well... what I did find that works is opeing TUX racer first...(don;t ask I know it is stupid)... there will be no sound...then quit...then open audio mixer ...voila... it works...XMMS too....

I am unsure why this workaround works... I have looked in my modules file and found the alias i810 driver there but also some other stuff that is too complex for me to understand...

I *think* it might have something to do with the RPMs not quite setting everything up quite right....

what do you think?

_C

[DaMaxx]

The Tux Racer thing didnt work at all for me.

I did however do an lsmod and checked for the soundcore and ac97_codec. The soundcore was there but the ac97_codec wasnt. so I did an insmod ac97_codec, it said "Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.0"
I am assuming this is a good thing. Except it does say ac97_codec 13416 0 (unused). kinda wondering about the unused part.

Still no audio. Still no volume mixer access. So I am thinking to myself why isnt i810_audio in the lsmod listing too??? so I try a insmod i810_audio. umm yeah that was an oops, it completely stalled the system(I have never seen linux stall before).

In the Sound Card Configuration utility I get two tabs both identical "nVidia Corpoation" which it has the following:
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model: nForce Audio
Module: i810_audio

and of course "Play test sound" click it and get nothing in either tab.

Any other ideas?? would be really really cool.

by the way the motherboard is an MSI K7N420. just in case.

Thanks in advance,

[icemanjer]

how do I make the ac97 and ac97_codec module inserted by default when I boot up?

[Klaus-P]

Hmmm, there are several ac97_codec's from Silicon f.i. and from ALSA. The Silicon version comes with the linux
kernel source package and the other with the alsa package. So it's likely that the WRONG ac97_codec module is loaded. If you
run the ASLA driver use the ALSA codec stuff. And then you don't need the nforce audio driver at all. I thinbk it's a
driver conflict.

[Klaus-P]

soundcore should handel the codec stuff at boot time.

[captain_obvious]

How do you check if the ac97_codec and soundcore are inserted and how do you insert them if not?

[jsampson69]

I decided to just go with the alsa sound drivers... followed the instilation instructions and it works perfectly.... i sugest it above the nvidia sound drivers