Comments on: A Cry for Help

By: Ace Telekinesis

Ace Telekinesis — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:54:30 +0000

Me again here is the deal.

1. Use windows with standard drivers (easy but crap for linux heads)
2. Rebuild alsa with the i810 drivers forced (which works but you will ONLY get audio out but no line in or mic)
3. Download knoppix (i can’t remember which version I tried) but that just seemed to force the i810 drivers and work again but without mic or line in.

By: fxaueq

fxaueq — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:58:27 +0000

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By: Ace Telekinesis

Ace Telekinesis — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:10:23 +0000

Hi I have an ECS G732 laptop with a SIS7012 sound card and im bashing my ******* brains out trying to solve this. Ive downloaded about 10 different distros and no avail. From what ive gathered on web sites it seems to be related to maybe a kernel problem or an irq conflict. Now I tried noacpi and irqpoll etc and they didnt work, infact they just made my pc hang. I was told on one site to try ubuntu 5.04 because it has a unique kernel revision that corrects the bug, i tried but it just hangs and freezes just before the desktop loads. On the latest versions of ubuntu (7.10 & 8.04) if i select oss the test sound sounds garbled at a fast rate, if i select alsa it sounds garbled at a slower rate. The sound is very simular to when i used to have a SBpro 8bit and games would sometimes choose the wrong irq. Incidently i completly removed the modem in the mini pci port and left it empty and also reset the resource information in the bios. I looked into flashing the bios but another site covered it and it didnt work either. I know i can just use windows but hey come on, i wanna use linux i just wish linux wanted to use my si7012 dammit. A few ppl have said use an external sound card but thats hopeless really considering the extra setup, power drain and that id be forced to use separate speakers/earbuds because i cannot loopback into the internal laptop amp. If anyone can solve this problem and get the sound working then il paypal them the cost of a crate of beer coz im tired of reading unanswered posts of up to 3 years about this chipset.

Oh one more thing apparently you can force the i810 driver in the place of the 7012 and it works but after many attempts I could never get it to initialise but im not an expert.

thanks for reading this pls pls pls pls pls someone pls help us all. we really need sound on our pcs. thanks :)

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:40:18 +0000

Nope. I haven’t used my USB sound card in ages. :/

By: inoxllor

inoxllor — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:31:01 +0000

Hello.
Same problem with 8.04. Did you find the solution?

By: Sound Cards

Sound Cards — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:08:09 +0000

I couldn�t have said it better myself! Thanks a lot!!!

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:53:24 +0000

After playing a bit with my mpd config, at least now that works with my USB headset. Also, I’m interested in trying out Gutsy soon; some people seem to be successful with their SI7012 chipsets on Feisty at least. One can only hope it’s improved in Gutsy. >_>.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:05:56 +0000

It wasn’t a laptop. It was a hp pavilion [sic] something-or-other with mostly SiS-based stuff on the motherboard.

Everything worked beautifully (except for the SiS graphics, which didn’t matter, since I used an NVIDIA AGP card instead).

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:38:31 +0000

A kernel update? I’m already running 2.6.20-16-generic… That’s weird. Which laptop do you have?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:22:22 +0000

That’s odd that you even need to use a USB sound card. I had exactly the same sound chipset (SiS SI7012) and it worked beautifully in Ubuntu Dapper and above (including Feisty; and it didn’t work in Breezy). The only problem I had was that it didn’t work out of the box in GoboLinux 013, but a kernel upgrade to 2.6.20 (I think!) fixed it.