939NF4G-SATA2 motherboard sound

[houxiang zhu]

Hi,

I have a 939NF4G-SATA2 mainboard with Athlon64 3000+. I installed FC4-x86_64 as well as NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0310-pkg1.run,also nvidia 8178 graphics driver. nvnet(can connect to internet) and graphics works(no error at least).

but for audio. I don't know it works or not. because when I play system-config-soundcard, it not work, looks like it is because it's alsa application.aplay also not work. but when I start KAudioCreator, it makes a sound. (although it said I need select encoders).

I didn't play with other sound-required application yet.

When I remove nvsound module and "modprobe snd-intel8x0" or "modprobe snd-hda-intel", no error and seems all alsa related module loaded, but no sound at all . and /proc/asound/cards is empty.

so, my question is that:
1. Can I say ALSA doesn't supported this motherboard yet?(nForce 410 MCP,realtek ALC850 7.1 Channel AC'97 Audio Codec).

2. Can I say that The driver "nvsound" is working or not? if yes, if some application need Alsa, how can it use nvsound?

Thank you very much!
houxiang

[houxiang zhu]

Hi, after I modified intel8x0.c according to a post here, I solved this problem.
basicly I added { 0x10de, 0x026b, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, DEVICE_NFORCE }, /* NFORCE4 */ in snd_intel8x0_ids array.

and added .asoundrc to ~ directory.
.asoundrc like this:
[root@localhost ~]# cat .asoundrc
pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "nforce"
}
pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 512
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
}
ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}
[root@localhost ~]#
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [ICH ]: NFORCE - Intel ICH
Intel ICH with ALC850 at 0xfebdc000, irq 225
[root@localhost ~]# lspci -v
00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation: Unknown device 0850
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
Memory at febdc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

[Suletom]

Hi all!

I'd like to buy this motherboard, but I couldn't find any ideas about the sound
driver.

I want only know, wheather the nforce platform driver works correctly?
I need only oss support if hardware mixing is supported.

(On my abit nf7s everything worked fine with the nforce 2 driver.)

[robkampen]

I too have this mb with no sound and no nic functions working.
As I needed DVI for HDTV I have a 6600GT installed, bios disabled the mb adapter.
Manual install of nvidia 8178 onto my text only install of FC4 finally got me X11 functioning - whew, rome wasn't built in a day and neither was this machine!
have tried to get forcedeth module to load but it is not happy.
modprobe was edited to contain
alias eth0 forcedeth
however execution of
modprobe forcedeth
simply returns to prompt (-v doesn't help).
at boot the forcedeth load fails, with module not loaded. it appears to exist okay at /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp/kernel/drivers/net/
ifconfig forcedeth eth0 address 192.168.231.231 gives:
eth0: Host name lookup failure
hostname
gives correct hostname 'ndgbak'
what am i missing?
re sound - even less to go on hear (sic) nothing appears to have loaded so where do I start?
any help appreciated