No sound on empia audio emp202/ICH4

Hello.
I' ve installed Zorin OS 5.2 on a fujitsu scenic p300 x100 PC with a Fujitsu D1740 Motherboard (see specs below).
The emp202 audio from Empia was not detected during installation.
I've searched on zorin and ubuntu foruns but there isn't any reference to this audio system.
Can someone give a hand?

Best regards

Albertino
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Motherboard Specification
mPGA478 Socket Intel® Celeron & Pentium® 4
i845GV Chipset
400/533/MHz FSB
2 DIMM Slots (DDRAM)
184 pin, 2.5V, 64 bit, DDR 200,266,333
Max memory 2GB
No ECC Support (unbuffered)
Integrated i845GV Video Controller
Integrated Audio Codec - Empia EMP202
1 x Line In
1 x Line Out
1 x Microphone
ATA 100 IDE Controller
3 x PCI Slots (32bit)
4 x USB ports (USB 2.0) 2 rear, 2 front
Integrated ADMTek AN983B 10/100mbps LAN Controller
WOL Support

Hi,

install the packages "libsox-fmt-all" and "paman", Paman is the Pulse Audio Manager which is better in my opion, you need to open pulse audio after reboot and check the settings, input and hardware throughly!!.

And/also, run the command:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

in a terminal, if there are any missing dependencies, this should install them!.

Regards Wolfman

Hello
Tanks for your reply
I've tried your suggestion with no luck.
I've also run some sound troubleshooting guides I' found in the ubuntu foruns
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound ... gProcedure
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iTl ... SFLMI/edit
still no sound

Run lspci
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
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and aplay -l

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aplay: device_list:240: nenhuma placa de som encontrada...(translation: soundbord not found...)
===========================
finally I've run the "ALSA Information Script"
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!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.60
!!################################

!!Script ran on: Thu Mar 8 11:51:07 UTC 2012


!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------

Ubuntu 11.04 \n \l DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu


!!DMI Information
!!---------------

Manufacturer: FUJITSU SIEMENS
Product Name: SCENIC P / SCENICO P
Product Version:


!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release: 2.6.38-13-generic
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686
Processor: i686
SMP Enabled: Yes


!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version: 1.0.24
Library version: 1.0.24.1
Utilities version: 1.0.24.2


!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------



!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

Pulseaudio:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio)
Running - Yes

ESound Daemon:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/esd)
Running - No

Jack:
Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/jackd)
Running - No


!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

--- no soundcards ---


!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)


!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Subsystem ID's
!!--------------------------------------------------------

00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 1734:1058


!!Modprobe options (Sound related)
!!--------------------------------

snd-atiixp-modem: index=-2
snd-intel8x0m: index=-2
snd-via82xx-modem: index=-2
snd-usb-audio: index=-2
snd-usb-caiaq: index=-2
snd-usb-ua101: index=-2
snd-usb-us122l: index=-2
snd-usb-usx2y: index=-2
snd-cmipci: mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
snd-pcsp: index=-2
snd-usb-audio: index=-2


!!Loaded sound module options
!!--------------------------


!!ALSA Device nodes
!!-----------------

crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Mar 8 11:42 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Mar 8 11:42 /dev/snd/timer


!!Aplay/Arecord output
!!------------

APLAY

aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found...

ARECORD

arecord: device_list:240: no soundcards found...

!!Amixer output
!!-------------


!!Alsactl output
!!-------------

--startcollapse--
--endcollapse--


!!All Loaded Modules
!!------------------

Module
binfmt_misc
dm_crypt
ac97_bus
snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq
ppdev
snd_timer
snd_seq_device
snd
psmouse
parport_pc
soundcore
serio_raw
snd_page_alloc
shpchp
lp
parport
dm_raid45
xor
btrfs
zlib_deflate
libcrc32c
i915
drm_kms_helper
drm
tulip
i2c_algo_bit
floppy
video
ramzswap
xvmalloc


!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
!!------------------
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The common result seems to be that zorin can't find the sound board even if it appears on the logs.

Any help please

Albertino

Hello
Thanks for your help. I've to wait to Monday until then I'm away from the pc. Definitely go for your acpi=off suggestion and try uninstall the modem as someone suggests there could a conflict between the modem and the soundcard.
However I'm a bit confused here. The motherboard documentation mentions empia but as you can see above, the diagnostics log refer:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01), Vendor ID/Device 8086:24c5 and that corresponds to alsa driver intel8x0 as seen in: http://www.calel.org/pci-devices/alsa-d ... html#Intel.
So it suggests that the soundchip is supported.
I've checked the linux-drivers resource and it mentions 82801AA and IHC4, I guess the meaning is: supported since 82801AA
Any more ideas?

Best Regards

Albertino