Re: No sound on Intel DQ965GF motherboard

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>:
> Interesting that you would post a link to one of my responses on
> linuxquestions.org.

Ah, you must be GrueMaster, then.
 
> I still have my DP965LT, and I usually update my audio driver whenever
> there is a significant change to the tip for my specific audio codec.
> Couple of things to check.  First, is the audio disabled in bios?

No.  I checked, audio is enabled.

>                                                      Does
> audio work if you use the latest daily snapshot of alsa-driver from
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/snapshot/driver/ ?

No.  Installing these changes the problem; the "no codecs" message
goes away, but snd_hda_intel no longer appears in the output of lsmod.
Grepping the dmesg output yields these messages:

[   37.951029] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
[   37.951033] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
[   37.951070] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new
[   37.951073] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
[   37.951110] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_limit_hw_rates
[   37.951113] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_limit_hw_rates
[   37.951146] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_register
[   37.951148] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_register
[   37.951187] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_free
[   37.951188] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_free
[   37.951209] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[   37.951211] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[   37.951234] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_proc_new
[   37.951235] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_proc_new
[   37.951315] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_find_id
[   37.951317] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_find_id
[   37.951375] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
[   37.951376] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
[   37.951424] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_component_add
[   37.951426] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_component_add
[   37.951452] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_new
[   37.951454] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_new
[   37.951500] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[   37.951502] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[   37.951530] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[   37.951532] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[   37.951555] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[   37.951557] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[   37.951591] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_elem_read
[   37.951622] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_elem_write
[   37.951641] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[   37.951643] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[   37.951669] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[   37.951671] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[   37.951700] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_device_new
[   37.951702] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_device_new
[   37.951735] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[   37.951736] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[   37.951767] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_disconnect
[   37.951769] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_disconnect
[   37.951789] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
[   37.951791] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
[   37.951897] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[   37.951898] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[   37.951917] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step
[   37.951919] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step

This may just mean I fluffed the installation, but there is nothing in the
install file to clue me in about how.

> Also, if this doesn't fix the problem, can you send a link generated
> from running http://bulletproof.servebeer.com/alsa/scripts/alsa-info.sh
> It has a lot of detailed information about your audio configuration.

http://pastebin.ca/777163
 
> I looked at the driver code, and your specific system is listed (I
> should know - I added it 8/2006).

If it would help, I'd be willing to create a guest account on the machine 
for you and work with you in real-time to resolve the problem.  You can't hear
my speakers, of course, but I strongly suspect that if we could get the
driver and its codecs to load properly the rest would just be a matter of
making sure they're plugged in.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>