Frist prost!

[unixronin]

...From the new machine (temporarily named excalibur) that's going to be the replacement for babylon5, that is (and will take over its IP address and hostname).  I assembled the machine Thursday evening; by yesterday evening I had essentially everything set up on it except for sound.  I STILL don't have sound working; I suspect it's a case of "this specific HD-audio chipset¹ isn't really properly supported yet."

The old hardware was a single AthlonXP 2400+ core (2GHz) with 3GB of RAM and, most recently, mirrored 80GB SATA disks on an LSI Logic MegaRAID controller, in an Antec case old enough that I've forgotten the model number.  The new hardware runs a Thuban-core PhenomII x6 3.2GHz with 8GB of RAM (at present) and mirrored 60GB Mushkin SSDs.

[1]  Apparently neither of them are, actually.  The machine seems to have two, the second of which I wasn't expecting:

00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 83c5
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
04:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device aa38
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

The second is apparently built into the sound VIDEO card.  (Bad fingers!)  So far, I can't get either one working.

Comments

[ithildae]

Do you have it up under gentoo?

[unixronin]

Yes, and by now I've mostly solved the sound problem. The remaining weird issue is that at the moment, after every boot, I have to stop alsa, unload all the sound modules, then load alsa again, before it'll work right.

[ithildae]

Can I ask what you did for the sound? I have a similar module on my MB and only have the synth working. The PCM and MIDI parts just don't seem to want to turn on. I am not quite sure where I missed it.

[unixronin]

What I did to get the sound working on it was to identify the chipset and figure out a compatible PCI AC97 driver, which in this case (and many other HD-audio chipsets) turns out to be snd_intel8x0.