nVidia CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller can't work for me

>:(>:(nVidia CK804 AC’97 Audio Controller can’t work for me.

it just produce loud noises>:(

how to fix this problem? bad drivers??

I didn’t find the sound driver at Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers, there are only graphic drivers.

where can i found the corresponding driver for my sound card?

Thank you in advance!!

below is some information about my sound card:
linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # hwinfo --sound
14: PCI 04.0: 0401 Multimedia audio controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_59
Unique ID: 8otl.zdrynGGY9MD
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:04.0
Hardware Class: sound
Model: “nVidia CK804 AC’97 Audio Controller”
Vendor: pci 0x10de “nVidia Corporation”
Device: pci 0x0059 “CK804 AC’97 Audio Controller”
SubVendor: pci 0x1458 “Giga-byte Technology”
SubDevice: pci 0xae01
Revision: 0xa2
Driver: “Intel ICH”
Driver Modules: “snd_intel8x0”
I/O Ports: 0xbc00-0xbcff (rw)
I/O Ports: 0xc000-0xc0ff (rw)
Memory Range: 0xf0105000-0xf0105fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 22 (6491 events)
Module Alias: “pci:v000010DEd00000059sv00001458sd0000AE01bc04sc01i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd_intel8x0 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe snd_intel8x0”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Try working your way through our openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

I’m trying the troubleshooting guide.
During the step-2(STEP-2: Trying YaST to configure ones sound)
YAST > HARDWARE > SOUND > OTHER > VOLUME, I can get the music sound, but sill with load noise, is that mean my audio card is working? how can I fix the noise? should I continue to step-3??

I’m trying the troubleshooting guide.
During the step-2(STEP-2: Trying YaST to configure ones sound)
YAST > HARDWARE > SOUND > OTHER > VOLUME, I can get the music sound, but sill with loud noise, is that mean my audio card is working? how can I fix the noise? should I continue to step-3??

What was the output of running the different speaker tests in step 1 ? What sound did you get from each of the 3 different tests?

ok, I redo the all things.

linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # rpm -q alsa alsa-utils alsa-firmware
alsa-1.0.21-3.2.x86_64
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.1.x86_64
alsa-firmware-1.0.20-3.2.noarch
linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

speaker-test 1.0.21

Playback device is plug:front
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 8 to 16384
Period size range from 8 to 16384
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 4096
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.739870
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.071760
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 2.901479
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.071898
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.071698

during the speaker-test, I can hear a woman’s voice said something(something like 1,2,3…), with loud noise, because the noise it louder than the woman’s voice, I can’t hear it clearly>:(

ok, now I’m sure I can get the sound, but because the noise is too loud, I can’t hear clearly for anything. the noise like “shashashashasha~~~~”.

because the big noise, I reduced the sound volume before, so I didn’t notice the sound. sorry for those wrong information.:shame:

now the big problem is: how can I fix the noise problem?:shame:

:shame::shame:I’m trying to do the speaker-test again, but I got below error message this time, what’s wrong?

**linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # **speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -l5 -twav

speaker-test 1.0.21

Playback device is plug:front
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy

Are you certain this is not a hardware problem ? Do you have another distribution or operation system working without the noise problem?

I’m sure my hardware is ok :), on the same computer, I have a Windows operating system, when I run Windows OS, everything is working well. lol!

OK, then can you provide more information ?

Please provide the information recommended to be provided as documented in the second half of the multimedia stickie: Welcome to multimedia sub-area - openSUSE Forums which is:

please post in this … sub-forum, providing in your post the following information:

  • provide the URLs (of a summary webpage) that are created by running the diagnostic script noted here:
    SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - Script to run to obtain detailed information. On openSUSE-11.1 and newer that will ask you to run the script /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh and after the script finishes it will give you a URL to pass to the support personnel. Please post here the output URL. Just the URL. You may need to run that script twice (the first time with root permissions to update in the /usr/sbin directory, and the second time to get the URL).
  • in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -qa ‘alsa#and post output here
  • in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -qa ‘pulse#and post output here
  • in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -q libasound2 #and post output here
  • in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: uname -a #and post output here
  • for openSUSE-11.1 or earlier, in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound #and post output here
  • for openSUSE-11.2 or later, in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf #and post output here

Your ALSA information is located at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=17183f45cc786d4c658468f2f00aff5d4c6569ed

Please inform the person helping you.

linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # rpm -qa 'alsa
alsa-oss-1.0.17-25.2.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64
alsa-plugins-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64
alsa-1.0.21-3.2.x86_64
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.1.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64
alsa-oss-32bit-1.0.17-25.2.x86_64
alsa-plugins-32bit-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64
alsa-firmware-1.0.20-3.2.noarch

linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # rpm -qa 'pulse
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
libpulse0-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
libpulse-browse0-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
vlc-aout-pulse-1.0.4-1.54.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
libpulse0-32bit-0.9.21-1.1.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64
pulseaudio-0.9.19-2.3.x86_64

linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.21-3.2.x86_64
linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # uname -a
Linux linux-7dqw 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-01-27 08:20:11 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

linux-7dqw:/home/baijingjiao # cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf

options snd slots=snd-intel8x0

8otl.zdrynGGY9MD:CK804 AC’97 Audio Controller

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

This just means the sound “device or resource” is “busy”. … ie some other application is using the sound device and it is not sharing it. … Thats fairly straight forward (albeit not pleasant). :slight_smile: … To see what applications are using the sound device one can type in a terminal:

lsof /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*

… that information is in the audio troubleshooting guide … SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - determinaing which application is using sound device
… and note there are 2 other audio tests one should also run.

According to that, you have your volume TURNED OFF in your mixer AND you have your sound MUTED in your mixer.

I’m amazed you hear anything. :slight_smile: Take a look at your settings:

!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [CK804]

Card hw:0 ‘CK804’/‘NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 23’
Mixer name : ‘Realtek ALC850 rev 0’
Components : ‘AC97a:414c4790’
Controls : 42
Simple ctrls : 27
Simple mixer control ‘Master’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0** [0%]** -46.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 0 **[0%] **-46.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control ‘Master Mono’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 0 [0%] -46.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control ‘PCM’,0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] -34.50dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] -34.50dB] [off]

Hence IMHO you should start by properly setting up the mixer in your PC’s openSUSE.

sorry, I don’t know I should open the mixer when I run /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh,

because the noise, I turned off it.

but, today, I opened the mixer, no noise anymore, the sound card works!! I didn’t change anything, it is weird. I still don’t know what is the problem for that big noise in last few days.

But I should be happy, since anyway it works now!

Thank you very much for all help in these days.

Congratulations !! Glad to read the sound works now.

You could also take a look at this thread: Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums It is IMPORTANT to help you set up your PC to get better audio/video playback behaviour.