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Avance ALS100/ALS120 ISA PNP sound card is detected by kernel but snd-als100 module isn't loaded automatically

Bug #37653 reported by John Doe
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Bug Description

Ubuntu doesn't autoload snd-als100 kernel module for
Avance ALS100 / Avance ALS120 ISA sound card that supports "ISAPnP".

This problem exists with Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper" - 7.04 "Feisty"

a@a-desktop:/proc/bus/pnp$ dmesg |grep -i pnp
[ 58.678511] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 58.678528] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 58.678936] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fbd60
[ 58.678958] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xbd88, dseg 0xf0000
[ 58.686434] PnPBIOS: 15 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 15 recorded by driver
[ 58.723907] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x208-0x20f has been reserved
[ 62.440266] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 62.535538] isapnp: Card 'PnP Sound Chip'
[ 62.535557] isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
[ 62.951631] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 104.355206] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[ 104.508850] pnp: Device 01:01.02 activated.

I've loaded snd-als100 module with modconf simply by pressing "Enter" and sound started to work without any problems:

Installing module snd-als100. If the device isn't there, or isn't configured correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute.

Installation succeeded.

Please press ENTER when you are ready to continue.

I think this is udev's problem, as udev should autoload kernel modules for hardware, that suports PNP automatically.

See original description
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John Doe (johndoedoejohn) wrote : aplay -l output.txt

Output of "aplay -l"

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John Doe (johndoedoejohn) wrote : dmesg output.txt

Output of "dmesg"

Inside it shows:
[4294674.511000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[4294674.606000] isapnp: Card 'PnP Sound Chip'
[4294674.606000] isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total

indicating that something is detecting the presence of the ISAPnP sound card but it isn't being fully setup by the time gnome loads in the GUI.

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John Doe (johndoedoejohn) wrote : lspci-output.txt

Not sure if this is needed if I am reporting an ISAPnP sound card issue, but I am uploading it anyways.

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John Doe (johndoedoejohn) wrote : cat /proc/version

cat /proc/version

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John Doe (johndoedoejohn) wrote : Re: [Dapper Flight-6] ISA sound card that supports ISAPnP is not automatically detected

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Avance_Logic#matrix

Indicates that this sound card is supported by "Alsa" using the "als100" module.

Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)
description: updated
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jkonstrukt (johann-jkonstrukt) wrote :

If you are new to linux everything looks like impossible.
Just to make a sound card to work you get a lot of (crap?) information
Is there not a better way to "install" a sound card?
Like click for auto detect?
This problem is from xubuntu
Hope to see better information.
Linux is great so far.
New to Linux

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

There is no longer an snd-als100.ko.

Changed in alsa-driver:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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