Doubled Memory, Lost sound on SuSE 9.3

Hello,

I have SuSE Linux 9.3, installed on a laptop with Intel P4 2.8GHz and
intel chipset.
Until last week, the laptop had 512MB of RAM, and as I am using it as a
demonstration computer with various servers running, I thought that
upgrading the memory would make things a little bit faster.
I put in another 512MB DIMM. The first thing that I noticed was that the
computer became REAL slow, it took more than 25 minutes to boot into the
GUI!!! Googling around I found somewhere that perhaps the bios could not
cache all the extra memory (a bios bug? I wouldn't know, the laptop is a
noname one so bios updates is rather out of the question). Any way I
found somewhere that I could instruct the kernel to ignore memory above
a set boundary so I put the parameter mem=960m in grub. So the laptop is
now running at top speed, seeing only 960MB of memory out of 1024, BUT...

I lost the sound. The laptop has an AC97 codec made by intel and the
module used is snd_intel8x0.

lspci gives
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation
82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

dmesg | tail -4 gives
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:2178: AC'97 warm reset still in progress? [0x6]
Intel ICH: probe of 0000:00:1f.5 failed with error -5

when I try to setup the sound through yast which detects the card I get
An error occured during the installation of
82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
The kernel module snd_intel8x0 for sound support could not be
loaded.This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

When I run alsaconf as ROOT, alsaconf DOES detect the card, runs
configuration and then it tells me that the card is configured it DOES
load the module but when it comes to playing the test sound nothing
comes out. Alsaconf exits saying
ALSA lib confmisc.c:560snd_determine_driver) could not open control
for card 0
ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function
snd_func_card_driver returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib confmisc.c:955snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib conf.c:3948snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Permission denied
ALSA lib pcm.c:2090snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:533: audio open error: Permission denied

But also in the end it says

Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

Have a lot of fun!

Which of course is a lie.

The permission denied message is strange because as I said I am running
it as root.

The sound works on windoze xp (dual boot system)


Please advise

Sorry, wrong forum, please ignore

Iosif Kanakaris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have SuSE Linux 9.3, installed on a laptop with Intel P4 2.8GHz and
> intel chipset.
> Until last week, the laptop had 512MB of RAM, and as I am using it as a
> demonstration computer with various servers running, I thought that
> upgrading the memory would make things a little bit faster.
> I put in another 512MB DIMM. The first thing that I noticed was that the
> computer became REAL slow, it took more than 25 minutes to boot into the
> GUI!!! Googling around I found somewhere that perhaps the bios could not
> cache all the extra memory (a bios bug? I wouldn't know, the laptop is a
> noname one so bios updates is rather out of the question). Any way I
> found somewhere that I could instruct the kernel to ignore memory above
> a set boundary so I put the parameter mem=960m in grub. So the laptop is
> now running at top speed, seeing only 960MB of memory out of 1024, BUT...
>
> I lost the sound. The laptop has an AC97 codec made by intel and the
> module used is snd_intel8x0.
>
> lspci gives
> 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation
> 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
>
> dmesg | tail -4 gives
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
> ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:2178: AC'97 warm reset still in progress? [0x6]
> Intel ICH: probe of 0000:00:1f.5 failed with error -5
>
> when I try to setup the sound through yast which detects the card I get
> An error occured during the installation of
> 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
> The kernel module snd_intel8x0 for sound support could not be
> loaded.This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>
> When I run alsaconf as ROOT, alsaconf DOES detect the card, runs
> configuration and then it tells me that the card is configured it DOES
> load the module but when it comes to playing the test sound nothing
> comes out. Alsaconf exits saying
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:560snd_determine_driver) could not open control
> for card 0
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function
> snd_func_card_driver returned error: Permission denied
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> returned error: Permission denied
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:955snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> returned error: Permission denied
> ALSA lib conf.c:3948snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Permission denied
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2090snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> aplay: main:533: audio open error: Permission denied
>
> But also in the end it says
>
> Now ALSA is ready to use.
> For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.
>
> Have a lot of fun!
>
> Which of course is a lie.
>
> The permission denied message is strange because as I said I am running
> it as root.
>
> The sound works on windoze xp (dual boot system)
>
>
> Please advise