nvsound - GForce3 - Debian - 2.6.8
 

Ok,

First, let me admit that I know nothing about sound under linux. So, please bear with these newbie questions... <grin>

I have downloaded, compiled, and installed the nvidia platform drivers for IA32 linux. I have nvnet working great. nvsound is loaded, but I don't get any sound at all. The nvmixer does give me an error when every I try to set the volume. Gnome does not see the sound card or play any sounds.

What else do I have to do? Do I need ALSA or OSS? If so what parts? I have never seen the nvidia sould card on the list of support sound cards.

Here is the output from dmesg:

Nvsound: Nvidia Audio Init Module, 19:58:11 Aug 22 2004 version 1.0-0
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
Nvsound: NVIDIA CK8S Audio found at IO 0xe400 and 0xe800, IRQ 14
Nvsound: Aci_device dff3e800 Apu_device 00000000
Nvsound: DEV MIXER 16 DEV AUDIO 3
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0477c20(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NVRM: AGPGART: unable to set MTRR write-combining
NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!!
NVRM: AGPGART: unable to set MTRR write-combining
NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!!
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Nvsound: Set format as 10
Nvsound: Unable to change the Playback SampleRate, set back to 48000
Nvsound: Nvaudio_release
Nvsound: Set format as 8
Nvsound: Unable to change the Playback SampleRate, set back to 48000
Nvsound: Nvaudio_release
Nvsound: Set format as 10
Nvsound: Nvaudio_release
Nvsound: Set format as 10
Nvsound: Nvaudio_release
Nvsound: Set format as 10
Nvsound: Nvaudio_release
Nvsound: Set format as 10
Nvsound: Nvaudio_release
Nvsound: Set format as 10
Nvsound: Nvaudio_release
Nvsound: Set format as 10


Any assistance or guidance would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Chris

Re: nvsound - GForce3 - Debian - 2.6.8
 

have you already tried to turn off acpi in bios and give boot options acpi=off and noapic that worked for me
then i just manually loaded the oss driver: as root modprobe sound and then modprobe nvsound
make sure with lsmod that there aren´t any other sound modules loaded otherwise remove them with rmmod <modulename> as root
hopefully soon :nanahump: