[PLUG] Required Sound Drivers

Michael M. nixlists at writemoore.net
Wed Apr 5 23:47:36 UTC 2006


Rich Shepard wrote:
>   My new MSI K7N2 Delta2 motherboard is built around the nVidia nForce2
> Gigabit MCP/RAID MCP. It includes, "integrated hardware Sound 
> Blaster/Direct
> Sound AC97 audio."
> 
>   /sbin/lspci reports: "Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation 
> MCP2S
> AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)." I wonder if I have the proper modules
> built.
> 
>   Here's what's in /lib/modules/kernel/drivers/sound:
> 
> ac97.o                cs4232.o      maui.o           sgalaxy.o
> ac97_codec.o          cs4281/       mpu401.o         sonicvibes.o
> ac97_plugin_ad1980.o  cs46xx.o      msnd.o           sound.o
> ac97_plugin_wm97xx.o  emu10k1/      msnd_classic.o   soundcore.o
> aci.o                 es1370.o      msnd_pinnacle.o  sscape.o
> ad1816.o              es1371.o      nm256_audio.o    trident.o
> ad1848.o              esssolo1.o    opl3.o           trix.o
> ad1889.o              forte.o       opl3sa.o         uart401.o
> adlib_card.o          gus.o         opl3sa2.o        uart6850.o
> aedsp16.o             i810_audio.o  pas2.o           v_midi.o
> ali5455.o             kahlua.o      pss.o            via82cxxx_audio.o
> awe_wave.o            mad16.o       rme96xx.o        wavefront.o
> btaudio.o             maestro.o     sb.o             ymfpci.o
> cmpci.o               maestro3.o    sb_lib.o
> 
>   lsmod reports:
> 
> sound                  55624   0 (unused)
> soundcore               3652   2 [sound]
> ac97_plugin_wm97xx     12704   0 (unused)
> ac97_codec             13268   0 [ac97_plugin_wm97xx]
> 
>   What am I missing?

My understanding of these things is pretty limited, but if you are using 
alsa, don't you need the alsa driver loaded?  The alsa matrix reports 
that nVidia nForce chipsets use the intel8x0 driver:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Nvidia#matrix

That would be "i810audio.o" from your list.

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