Andras Kenez Posted June 28, 2006 Author Share Posted June 28, 2006 My Notebook (4370) hang up about 10-20 minutes after I playing long mp3 sound with iTunes , I try original and version 1.0.3 drivers. hangup occure only if playing large about 100 Mbyte mp3 with iTunes.. I play many 4-10 Mbyte files works well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedopefishlives Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Well, I've been playing 350MB video files all morning, no crashes yet. I'll keep pumping data through the system when I get home and see if it crashes; if not, I'll post 1.0.4 for your consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Has anyone gotten a KP (kernel panic) with their hardware and the sound drivers in linux? We should make up a list of all the hardware configurations that work in linux with what build (live cd's) and then maybe we'll have to write custom versions for each version. It appears that even though these all share the same device ID, they are in fact wired differently. Errrrrrrrr to KP's and their ability to not leave debugging information. -ed The driver work perfectly for me since i ahve my laptop (aug 2004). I think i never got any kernel panic at all on this laptop (at the exeption of my own kernel branch that is was making myself for fix my touchpad (never worked more tham 10 sec, i am too bad coder for do this kind of things) , i dont need it since 2.6.14 ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdFlyer Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Interesting, I haven't figured out the sound issue yet OldSkool. I'm gonna try burty's build and see if that fixes it. Yeah, the popping is normal. It reminds of when i have my guitar amp turned up and i pull the guitar cable out and it makes a pop. I also notice the pop happens when I have headphones plugged in also. I have some ideas on changing the output channel, I just hope that there's not some quirk in our hardware that requires us to initialize something else. Out of curiosity, have you tried any flavors of linux on it, and gotten it to work? If so, then we may able to see if that code has any specific code related to a subvendor ID that is common to both our laptops. -ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedopefishlives Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 There's nothing, unless it's in the Linux PCM subsystem which I haven't investigated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I just updated to 10.4.7 (working great, thanks Jas/Dax) and changed this in AppleAC97Audio.kext/Contents/Info.plist <key>com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily</key> <string>1.1d25</string> working fine... Dope I have also noticed that if I change any code in any other directory (like IOAC97Family) I always get link/load error... try the compile command I gave earlier.. it works fine with you package. Can you post the latest version of your code compiled Please?? It seems to work best with my lappy id 4341..same as you Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSkoolGamer Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Just a quick note to say that I tried the Ubuntu Live build 6.0.6 & get the same results on my laptop with that, volume control, no sound from any port or speakers. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkylerF Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Most live disks weren't giving me sound, but i've found that the Slax does (at least the KillBill edition). Might be of some help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdFlyer Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Is anyone else here besides me and Oldskool using Ebay or Gateway laptops with the SB400 Chipset and 4370 sound and linux? If so, have you gotten any linux distro working? And if you did, can you post what build or a link to where we can download it to test it? Thanks, that would be most excellent for figuring out this problem. -ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Most live disks weren't giving me sound, but i've found that the Slax does (at least the KillBill edition). Might be of some help every live-cd will work if you write modprobe atiixp in root terminal some live-cd fail to detect hardware, mepis too will detect it, but ubuntu, knoppix and some other will not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSkoolGamer Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Ed, I'm D/l the kill Bill version of Slax, I'll keep you posted on the success (or not). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdFlyer Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I think there may be some sort of external amp line that needs to be muted in order for the sound to work on our hardware. I've been surfing some linux forums and that seems to be the solution. Now to see where that can be done. I'll have to wait until tonight to get start as I'm at work and my lappy isn't with me. -ed http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...ad.php?t=377583 for more info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedopefishlives Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 That sounds like a mixer-control issue, Ed. The only problem is, I don't have the slightest clue how to run the mixer in Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSkoolGamer Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Well, I can't get any sound from Slax either, messed around with KMix & still nothing. This is getting annoying now. also tried the modprobe atiixp in root terminal, didn't work either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarping Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 help me 0x43411002 alc250 ac97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdFlyer Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 jarping ? some more context. Are you looking for a driver for your hardware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 mepis www.mepis.org will work for almost all here and for muting line you need to go open alsamixer in root (in terminal) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSkoolGamer Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Well, Mepis did work after turning off the external amplifier. So, now how to get to that in OSX or does it have to be turned off in the driver source ? Edit: Found this whilst searching for a solution: Sound is kinda strange, it uses alsa ati-ixp drivers, and for me I was scratching my head for a while as everything appeared to be working but now sound was coming out. (using alsa 1.0.9b external to kernel). Mixers etc appeared fine. Finally I plugged in an Amp to the headphones and got sound... albeit quite soft. Turns out that due to undocumented functions in the ac97 codec portion of the atiixp drivers that the internal speakers get turned off. Searching the alsa mailing list resulted in a good thread discussing it, and that there were some simple patches commit ed to cvs. With this in mind I gr abed the lattest 1.0.10-rc2 alsa libs and drivers and compiled them... Everything worked as it should with this. Note at time of writing these were not in portage so you will need to grab them from the alsa-project homepage Also on this page talks about Turn on inverted external amplifier sense flags for a few 'special' boards. http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/snd_RELEN...060429_106.diff Another edit: hooked up speakers into the headphones port, you do get audio witht he speakers turned all the way up, but you have to put it to your ear to hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zelda Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 jarping, I have a similar card and it works for me (try one of the builds I have posted) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedopefishlives Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Mmhmm, that's in the AC '97 interface on both Linux (ac97 quirks) and FreeBSD. I'll work on how to make the IOAC97Controller do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apprentice B Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I too have a gateway laptop (7510) with the popping instead of sound...I have had Kanotix release 2005-04 and Mepis 6 rc2 working without any console tinkering. All other builds I have tried required messing around with alsa stuff....if its of any use.... I am constantly nuking and reloading various partitions on this thing, if you need a build tested or hw info from a certain build, be happy to help... nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 BTW for me slax worked for sound on my laptop (4370), slax standard, alsa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unet Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I have the same problem as Ed, and everything works (now) under linux (I'm using SourceMage, a source based distro). However, in the previous releases of the alsa driver you had to do: echo "7a 2090" > /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0+regs to make it work. See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.p...9&forum_id=1752 for a complete discussion. Hope it helps... Anyway it's nice to see the development going on! Keep up the good work. I didn't have time to look at the code yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrs2021 Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 All the new builds are crashing my system. i get kernel panics at boot tracing back to the acpi driver... well i am going back to my last build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zelda Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 same here only pre 1 build works for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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