Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76830
(SOUND I810_AUDIO)i810 sound : Primary codec not ready. Problems at modules i810_audio loading
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:48:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I can't load the i810_audio module and therefore I can't have sound on my PC. dmesg writes : Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.22, 13:45:06 Sep 4 2002 PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1f.5 PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1f.3 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64 i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xe080 and 0xe400, IRQ 3 i810_audio: Codec not ready.. wait.. no response. i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels. i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode. i810_audio: Primary codec not ready. I have this problem with and without ac97.o and ac97_codec.o loaded ! The sound configurator regnonize well my soundcard, but it can't play a sound. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.modprobe i810_audio 2.dmesg Actual Results: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.22, 13:45:06 Sep 4 2002 PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1f.5 PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1f.3 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64 i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xe080 and 0xe400, IRQ 3 i810_audio: Codec not ready.. wait.. no response. i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels. i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode. i810_audio: Primary codec not ready. Additional info:
I having the exact same problem here, but replacing drivers/sound/i810_audio.c with the version from the latest 2.4-ac kernel and recompiling made it work. (At least as far as the sound configurator and menu "noise" anyway)
The 0.24 version of the i810_audio driver solves this problem. Alan Cox has that version of the driver, I don't. My last version was 0.22 unfortunately. Arjan, the 0.24 driver is in the ac patches and is queued currently to go in to Marcello after 2.4.20 final comes out (so it will be in 2.4.21-pre).
*** Bug 77101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 77127 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 64005 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A workaround which gets me going is to comment out the calls to aumix-minimal in /etc/modules.conf. You will of course lose your mixer settings upon each reboot - but the soundcard does work.
What is the status on case number #76830. I also run RedHat v8 on an Intel Motherboard with the same integrated audio chipset. The comment by Mr Ledford indicates the fix will be implemented in a future RH v9 (2.4.21) release? Case #54459 looks similar, status NEW, but has a 2001 post date, no change in status.
Should be resolved in the 2.4.20 based errata kernel
Thanks for fixing this problem. The kernel 2.4.20-18.8 fixed the audio driver problem for my hardware/software configuration. H/W Details below: P4 2.40B Ghz Intel D845PESV Motherboard, Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 Ethernet Jatron 3D Force B-32Plus APG Video Card, Nvidia Riva TNT-2/M64 Adaptec AIC-7861
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