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AC'97 Audio Controller Linux driver

Written by Mel Kham on November 4, 2009. Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question :

How to install AC’97 Audio Controller driver in my Linux ?

Answer:

With Gnome2.28 i got really issue to make it working . the alsa drivers and the mixers dont help . finaly decided to search from google and to check experience of people with this driver issue .

This is the output of my lspci:

00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

the only working methode is to install driver from the OSS (opensound system)

Go to http://www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi

download the package for your Linux or Unix version

reboot the machine .

test the sound with :

[pirat9@Unixmen-Host99 ~]$ osstest 
Sound subsystem and version: OSS 4.2 (b 2001/200910230524) (0x00040100)
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.31.5-96.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Fri Oct 23 19:53:24 EDT 2009

*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***
/dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): Intel ICH6 (266E)
Note! Device is in use (by PID 0/VMIX) but will try anyway
- Performing audio playback test... 
  OK  
OK  
OK  

*** All tests completed OK ***

its realy a good job from the oss team ,im now enjoying with my music .

please ask is you have any question

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7 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Gato303

Why always I am looking for help, the answers always have to be done on the command line ? – like other novice linux users I don’t know how to use the command line -

Why people who post help, stop assuming all linux users Know how to use the command line? why not to do a graphic method for people migrating from Windows?
- zinovsky
  
  We understand that is difficult for linux newbies to use the commandline, but there are cases there is noother solution to resolve the problem. Try to just copy/Past the commands to your terminal and see if will work
tux

I have followed the above article and it works to my karmic. but when i open my music (rhythmbox) that is no sound. please help me to return my sound.
Tq

Rgds,
Tux
Pirat9

TUx, Try other music player like VLC. its working fine for me
http://takagami.deviantart.com Takagami

Oh man! I have done 5-6 minimal installs of Ubuntu 9.04 AND 9.10 and could NEVER get my audio working. Everyone told me to install alsa and pulse audio! It would detect my hardware but never actually play any audio! THIS FINALLY FIXED IT! In one simple DEB install it all works perfectly! What the hell!?!

THANK YOU THANK YOU!

P.S. For those of you complaining about the command line in linux. You will NEED to learn how to use it if you really want to use linux to it’s fullest potential for ANYTHING! Even if all you do is check your email and browse the web. The linux console is VERY powerfull and very important to know, even just the basics.
dragging

[quote]vamsi@gkp-home-desktop:~$ osstest
Sound subsystem and version: OSS 4.2 (b 2002/200911060735) (0×00040100)
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.28-17-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 1 18:57:07 UTC 2009

*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): HD Audio play pcm1
- Performing audio playback test…
OK OK OK
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1 (audio engine 1): HD Audio play pcm2
- Performing audio playback test…
OK OK OK
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm2 (audio engine 2): HD Audio play pcm3
- Performing audio playback test…
OK OK OK
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm3 (audio engine 3): HD Audio play pcm4
- Performing audio playback test…
OK OK OK
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0 (audio engine 4): HD Audio rec select1
- Skipping input only device
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1 (audio engine 5): HD Audio rec jack6
- Skipping input only device

*** All tests completed OK ***
[/quote]

I can only hear sound when the first one (HD Audio play pcm1) is tested. There is still no sound in Ubuntu, or when I try to play video/audio.
Please help.
do_japan

Useless. Comes with broken install instructions.

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