[COLUG] Sound Problem (Stephen P. Molnar)

[Stephen P. Molnar]

Thanks for the reply.  Here;s the result:

AbNormal:/home/computation # lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:05.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra 
ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02)
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 
6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1)
AbNormal:/home/computation #

Unfortunately. I'm not a hardware person and really don't know what 
I'm reading.

Any help will be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

At 09:27 PM 10/29/2007, you wrote:
>Stephen Molnar wrote:
>>
>>My sound problem is that I have no sound.  I have upgraded my 
>>OpenSUSE 10.1 machine to an AMD 64 bit CPU.The motherboard is a MSI 
>>K9N Neo MS-7260 (Ver 1.X).
>>
>>When I boot the system I get a message that 'Not enough space to 
>>copy PCI option ROM [00:00:00]'.  After a slight pause the boot 
>>continues normally.  If I enable the onboard audio controller the 
>>boot hangs immediately after the not enough space message.  Oh yes, 
>>I have a MB of RAM.
>>
>>Consequently, I am without sound.  I did try installing an audio 
>>card, but the system won't boot.
>>
>>Any help in solving this problem will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>Take a look at the configuration using lspci from a command prompt. 
>I had this problem for both 32 and 64 bit versions of Kubuntu 
>Feisty. The error message was:
>
>PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a37
>
>This was due to a problem detecting the hardware on boot, and I 
>noticed that this problem was fixed for me in Kubuntu 7.10. I had a 
>great deal of problems with sound. I have not upgraded to 7.10 yet, 
>but tried the live cd as was suggested by others, then used the 
>lspci command to verify that it had been fixed.
>
>At one time, the KDE sound daemon artsd was running and would 
>consume as much as 90% of the cpu time. I ended up removing it and 
>then used ALSA drivers compiled to fix it and made it work somewhat. 
>This is a KDE daemon, so unless you are using KDE, it is probably 
>not a problem for you.
>
>If you find that the pci bridge is not detected properly using the 
>lspci command, then you will need to install alsa from source and 
>compile it. I have directions for Ubuntu variants. You'll have to go 
>to the ALSA web site for directions for Suse.
>
>Charlie Morrison
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