Fedora Core 2 (FC2) and sis 7012 sound card error

From: Alberto Gomez (algomu_at_ya.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:25:15 +0200

Help me!!! :)

My sound card don't works in a FC2. When I boot my system and after
login this windows gives the welcome:

#####################################################################
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: /dev/dsp can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
#####################################################################

I changed the permissions of the file but when I boot the system always
ara as:

[agomez@algomu agomez]$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw------- 1 agomez root 14, 3 feb 23 2004 /dev/dsp

When I installed the fedora, the sound test worked to me correctly, once
installed, I do not hear when I run the test. Although it seems to work
when I play music, I suppose that it will be to be redirected to
/dev/null because no sound.

Some data from my system are:

Kernel:
Linux algomu 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux

alsa packages:
[agomez@algomu agomez]$ rpm -qa|grep alsa|grep -v balsa
alsa-utils-1.0.3-1
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.3a-2
alsa-lib-1.0.3a-2

modprobe.conf file:
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

Modules related:
[root@algomu root]# lsmod|grep snd
snd_intel8x0 30829 1
snd_ac97_codec 58821 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 83529 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer 25413 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8393 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4033 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 7361 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 21733 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6473 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 45477 9
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7713 1 snd

lspci -v returns:

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
Sound Controller (rev a0)
         Subsystem: Unknown device 1849:7012
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
         I/O ports at dc00
         I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
         Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

/kproc/asound:

[root@algomu asound]# ls -lrt
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 ago 26 00:01 SI7012 -> card0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 version
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 timers
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 seq
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 pcm
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 oss
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 modules
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 devices
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 cards
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 card0
[root@algomu asound]# ls -l card0
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 codec97#0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 id
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 intel8x0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 pcm0c
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 pcm0p
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 ago 26 00:01 pcm1c

[root@algomu card0]# cat intel8x0
Intel8x0

Global control : 0x00000002
Global status : 0x00300100
AC'97 codecs ready : primary

I don't know nothign more, the volume levels are not 0.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

P.D.: Sorry for my english

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