[mythtv-users] No Sound with nForce chipset

[Tim Tait]

Have you looked at this 
<http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/DigitalSoundHowTo>? It has some nForce 
examples in it.

Tim

Ryan Allen wrote:

>    First off, knoppmyth totally rocks. I wasted a good week trying to
>    get Myth to work on SuSE 9.0, then I switched to this. Thanks for the
>    good work! 
>
>    However, I still have NO sound. I've been searching and have found
>    references on some sticky thread on my problem, but I cannot find it.
>    Here's the lowdown: 
>
>    It's a MSI MEGA 180 box that has the nForce chipset. 
>    Athalon 2500+ (barton) 
>    512 M ram 
>    PVR 350 
>
>    Now, I've got everything working, except sound. There is no sound
>    out from either the SPDIF, the analog out on the sound card nor the
>    PVR. 
>
>    so looking in /etc/modules.conf it says: 
>
>    alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 
>
>    which is wrong, so naturally I did an "lsmod" and as expected: 
>
>    ---< snip >--- 
>    snd-mixer-oss 11640 0 [snd-pcm-oss] 
>    snd-intel8x0 17636 0 
>    snd-pcm 56000 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] 
>    snd-timer 14088 0 [snd-pcm] 
>    snd-ac97-codec 32832 0 [snd-intel8x0] 
>    snd-page-alloc 4316 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] 
>    snd-mpu401-uart 3168 0 [snd-intel8x0] 
>    snd-rawmidi 13088 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] 
>    snd-seq-device 3824 0 [snd-rawmidi] 
>    snd 27940 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm
>    snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] 
>    soundcore 3524 3 [snd] 
>    ---< snip >--- 
>
>    so, I'm thinking I need to compile the nForce linux platform
>    drivers. So, I obtained the latest tar.gz and when I type "Make",
>    the compile fails with the following (parsed for clarity) messages: 
>
>    /usr/include/asm/mpspec.h:6:25: mach_mpspec.h: No such file or
>    directory 
>
>    /usr/include/asm/mpspec.h:8: error: `MAX_MP_BUSSES' undeclared here
>    (not in a function) 
>
>    /usr/include/asm/smp.h:73:26: mach_apicdef.h: No such file or
>    directory 
>
>    In file included from nvhw.c:16: 
>    nvhw.h:29:27: linux/wrapper.h: No such file or directory 
>
>    /usr/include/asm/irq.h:16:25: irq_vectors.h: No such file or
>    directory 
>
>
>    And a few others. My question is, where did I go wrong, and how does
>    one get the nForce audio to work on knoppmyth? 
>
>    Thanks!! 
>
>    -- Ryan
>
>  
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