OSS not recognising sound card

[PauPau]

Hello,

I have been on a long crusade to get the sound working on my laptop. I run a HP dv6000, with and Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) Audio Controller.
And it just doesn't seem like I can do anything about it... for ages. Of course my lack of technical knowledge might be a problem, but... this is just getting ridiculous.
Sound preferences, don't even show the card and do not allow me to chose OSS to run it with... I am... just lost...

Please help.

[Temüjin]

More info needed: Is the sound card enabled in the BIOS? Does the sound device show using lspci -vv command? (If so, what kernel module/driver is being used, if any?)
What distro are you using? Have you installed OSS4? If so, what is the output from ossinfo and ossmix commands?

[PauPau]

Thanks for bearing with me on this one, I have only recently found the light, so I am quite new to linux.

Yes, the lspci -vv gives this output:

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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc
   Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
   Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
   Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
   Region 0: Memory at f8400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
   Capabilities: <access denied>
   Kernel driver in use: oss_hdaudio
   Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

The card used to work with my previous OS, so I would believe it is enabled in BIOS.


~$ ossinfo

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Version info: OSS 4.2 (b 2000/200909092208) (0x00040100) TRIAL
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 (paulius-laptop)

Number of audio devices:   7
Number of audio engines:   11
Number of MIDI devices:      0
Number of mixer devices:   1


Device objects
 0: osscore0 OSS core services
 1: oss_hdaudio0 Intel HD Audio interrupts=5669971 (5669971)
    HD Audio controller Intel HD Audio
    Vendor ID    0x8086284b
    Subvendor ID 0x103c30cc
     Codec  0: ALC268 (0x10ec0268/0x103c30cc)
     Codec  1: Motorola3055 (0x10573055)
 2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services

MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)

Mixer devices
 0: High Definition Audio ALC268 (Mixer 0 of device object 1)

Audio devices
HD Audio play speaker             /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0  (device index 0)
HD Audio play headphone           /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1  (device index 1)
HD Audio play spdif-out           /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0  (device index 2)
HD Audio play modem               /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/mdmout0  (device index 3)
HD Audio rec select               /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0  (device index 4)
HD Audio rec select               /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1  (device index 5)
HD Audio rec modem                /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/mdmin0  (device index 6)

Nodes
  /dev/dsp -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
  /dev/dsp_in -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
  /dev/dsp_out -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
  /dev/dsp_ac3 -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0
  /dev/dsp_mmap -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
  /dev/dsp_multich -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0

~$ ossmix

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Selected mixer 0/High Definition Audio ALC268
Known controls are:
jack.int-speaker.mode <mix|input> (currently mix)
jack.int-speaker.mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.int-speaker.speaker [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)
jack.int-speaker.speaker-mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.black.mode1 <mix|input> (currently mix)
jack.black.mute1 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.black.headphone [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)
jack.black.mute.headphone ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.black.mute.speaker ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.black.mode2 <speaker|input> (currently speaker)
jack.black [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)
jack.black.mute2 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.int-mic [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)
record.select.select1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)
record.select.select2 <speaker|int-mic> (currently speaker)
record.select.select3 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)
record.select.select4 <speaker|int-mic> (currently speaker)
vmix0-enable ON|OFF (currently ON)
vmix0-rate <decimal value> (currently 48000) (Read-only)
vmix0-channels <Stereo|Multich> (currently Stereo)
vmix0-src <Fast|High|OFF> (currently Fast)
vmix0-outvol <monovol> (currently 0.0 dB)
vmix0-invol <monovol> (currently 0.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm7 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB) ("firefox")
vmix0.pcm8 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm9 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm10 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0.0:0.0 dB)

Does that help in figuring anything out? I'm stumped...

[Temüjin]

Your volumes are too low. Run ossxmix.

[PauPau]

Nope, it's not that...

[adamk]

Does 'osstest' work?