Re: Sound support for Intel ICH7 rev 02

[Ezra Drummond <ezra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with my sound chip. It's a Intel ICH7 rev 02. This is, what 
> lspci -v on Linux says:
>
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition 
> Audio Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 2010
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 66
>         Memory at ee400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>
> I've hoped, snd_ich would support it, but when I do a kldload snd_ich, I 
> get this error message:
>
> fwohci0: vendor=104c, dev=803a
> fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> irq 11 at device 0.1 on pci21
> fwohci0: Could not map memory
> device_probe_and_attach: fwohci0 attach returned 6
>
> Is this a configuration issue, or does the snd_ich driver simply not support 
> my sound chip?
>
> Thomas
>
>   
I have the Intel High definition Audio on my Dell laptop, which i got 
working with Simon sound update patch. I find that some programs can't 
play audio such as gxine, mpg321 and ogg123 but xmms, mpg123 and vlc 
works ok given that there is no softpcm support available.