Bug 40200 – ALSA won't work with the trident driver in gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1 (or 2.6.1-r1) but works fine with the vanilla sources with the same config

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John Söderberg 2004-02-02 10:53:13 UTC]

When I use the gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1 (or 2.6.1-r1) alsa won't find my soundcard (sis 7018, trident driver). I get a "error -16" and then "no soundcards found". I use the same config as I use in the vanilla-kernel 2.6.1 where it works fine.

The computer is a mitac laptop, celeron 800mhz with sis 630 chipset

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compile the kernel with alsasupport and the trident driver (pci)
2.Install the kernel and reboot
Actual Results:  
While booting you will get a error message from alsa and from the kernel about 
the soundcard 

Expected Results:  
It would have found my soundcard :) 

The computer is a mitac laptop, celeron 800mhz with sis 630 chipset 
 
 
Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.1) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.1 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk2 jpeg libg++ libwww 
mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv 
zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga java sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl 
python imlib oggvorbis qt motif opengl X gtk -gnome alsa kde openoffice licq 
opera"

[Comment 1 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-02-13 08:23:50 UTC]

this should now be resolved in ore recent versions of gentoo-dev-sources

[Comment 2 John Söderberg 2004-02-14 16:17:01 UTC]

I tried gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.3-r3 todag, the problem still remains :(

[Comment 3 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-02-19 05:13:08 UTC]

I can reproduce the above mentioned problem here.

With vanilla kernel 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 the ALSA Trident/SiS7018 driver works great with my SiS630-based laptop with onboard SiS7018 soundcard - just upgraded to vanilla 2.6.3 (using a .config from 2.6.2 and 'make oldconfig') and I get no sound and this message in my syslog:

Feb 19 01:20:26 [kernel] Trident4DWaveAudio: probe of 0000:00:01.4 failed with error -16

I suspect that at least the SiS7018 part of the Trident driver didn't exactly benefit from the massive ALSA updates :-/

[Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-02-19 05:15:02 UTC]

Created attachment 25923 [details]
Output of 'lspci -vvv' under vanilla 2.6.2

[Comment 5 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-02-20 05:13:31 UTC]

I have opened a bug report for this problem at http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2157

[Comment 6 Jason Cox (RETIRED) 2004-04-09 09:43:27 UTC]

A bug report was opened at http://bugme.osdl.org. Leaving this one for upstream.