No more Sound with new MOBO

[Pita]

I had to get a new 2nd hand MOBO for my VL6-box and have now no more sound.

If I do alsaconf it shows a strange sound card found: "mpu401  snd-mpu401

The same is true for the VL7-alpha2 box.

VL6-KDE-Live gives an error when trying to configure sound and says it
reverts to null or such a thing.

Trying to play a sound I get:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:590: audio open error: No such file or directory
aplay is installed.

output of lspci
 /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interfa
ce (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #
1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #
2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #
3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:05.1 Modem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. SmartLAN56 56K Modem
heisspf@~:$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:05.1 Modem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. SmartLAN56 56K Modem

 /sbin/lsmod|grep snd
snd_seq_oss            15024  0
snd_seq_midi_event      2612  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                25916  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            22268  0
snd_mixer_oss           8488  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_cs4236             19088  0
snd_mpu401              3136  0
snd_wavefront          22472  0
snd_usb_audio          44252  0
snd_wss_lib            13688  2 snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront
snd_pcm                33180  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_cs4236,snd_usb_audio,snd_wss_lib
snd_opl3_lib            4800  2 snd_cs4236,snd_wavefront
snd_timer              10376  4 snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_page_alloc          3812  2 snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep               3120  3 snd_wavefront,snd_usb_audio,snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart         2748  3 snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401,snd_wavefront
snd_usb_lib             9160  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            10136  3 snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device          2780  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    26888  17 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401,snd_wavefront,snd_usb_audio,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               2660  1 snd

Help welcome!!!

[Pita]

I did now an adjustment in the BIOS a proper sound card is now found.

Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97

However, trying to play sound I get:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:590: audio open error: No such file or directory.

[Pita]

S O L V E D 

[GrannyGeek]

Don't leave us in suspense! What did you do that fixed the problem?
--GrannyGeek

[Pita]

OK then. The idea came to me last night when half asleep. I noticed that alsamixer
and xfce-mixer showed as a card "USB Camera". In xfce-mixer I could change to
the now real card, however, it would not accept the control settings.

So this morning I unplugged the webcam from the USB port and could get
the sound working. Alsamixer immediately showed as a card now Intel 82801DB-ICH4
What a crazy thing that was.

Now to the problem that I have no Internet connection in VL6 with the new MOBO. I posted that
under Web & Internet and no help has come yet.

[GrannyGeek]

Those USB cameras can be troublesome when you're configuring sound. Glad you got it figured out.
--GrannyGeek

[Pita]

I had to get another MOBO since the first one was apparently not compatible
with my software. With this MOBO now I do not have the problem with sound
re USB webcam.

 Unfortunately still now Intenet connection.

 /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation Device 1683
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
00:03.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1563 HyperTransport South Bridge (rev 20)
00:03.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 03)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c5)
00:0e.1 Ethernet controller: ALi Corporation M5261 Ethernet Controller (rev 30)
00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

I posted under Web & Internet the configuration output of lsmod..