No sound on SiS 964/964L

[James Kubon]

Have tried installing Ubuntu 9.4, 9.10, 10.4 on an ECS 755-A2 motherboard (built in sound card) and sound card does not work for any of the installs. According to the board documentation the sound card function is provided by the SiS 964/964L SB supporting 6 channels of AC97 2.3 specification speaker outputs. It appears that there are lots of sound modules installed
(find /lib/modules/`uname -r` | grep snd)

lspci -vv
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 755 Host (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 32
 Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: agpgart-amd64
 Kernel modules: amd64-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 99
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
 Memory behind bridge: e8000000-e9ffffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-e7ffffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 128
 Region 0: I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
 Region 2: I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
 Region 3: I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
 Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=16]
 Kernel driver in use: pata_sis

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 32 (13000ns min, 2750ns max)
 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
 Region 0: I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
 Region 1: I/O ports at e100 [size=128]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
 Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10)
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
 Latency: 32 (20000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
 Region 0: Memory at ea024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10)
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
 Latency: 32 (20000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 21
 Region 0: Memory at ea020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10)
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
 Latency: 32 (20000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 22
 Region 0: Memory at ea021000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller (prog-if 20)
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 32 (20000ns max)
 Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 23
 Region 0: Memory at ea022000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 32 (13000ns min, 2750ns max)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
 Region 0: I/O ports at e200 [size=256]
 Region 1: Memory at ea023000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: sis900
 Kernel modules: sis900

00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus controller 180 SATA/PATA [SiS] (rev 01) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
 Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1891
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 32
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
 Region 0: I/O ports at e300 [size=8]
 Region 1: I/O ports at e400 [size=4]
 Region 2: I/O ports at e500 [size=8]
 Region 3: I/O ports at e600 [size=4]
 Region 4: I/O ports at e700 [size=16]
 Region 5: I/O ports at <unassigned>
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: sata_sis
 Kernel modules: sata_sis

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Kernel driver in use: k8temp
 Kernel modules: k8temp

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000] (rev c1)
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8193
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 248 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at e9000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: nvidia
 Kernel modules: nvidia-96, nvidiafb, nouveau

sudo aplay -l
[sudo] password for jim:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

have uploaded the Alsa info :wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash ./alsa-info.sh to:

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b0a0e12299dcd73dc612dd05dbff9c735aa8df86

thanks
James Kubon

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please see:

Simple mixer control 'Master Mono',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-46.50dB] [off] <---

Simple mixer control 'Duplicate Front',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off] <---
Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off] <---

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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