#1 2023-01-20 11:25:18

Peregrino69

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Beryllium and NVIDIA MCP61 chipset no audio [NO SOLUTION]

Hi guys

I installed Beryllium on an old PC, the idea being using it with the TV for light web browsing and as a media center. The problem is the NVIDIA MPC61 chipset which manages just about everything in the system:

tv@tv-box:~/Downloads$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 1.1 Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 2.0 Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:08.1 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control

The nouveau video driver works well enough, but the watching experience is somewhat diminished by the total lack of audio. nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver would support the chipset, but that one disappeared with Debian Stretch.

Is it possible to get this thing working at all anymore with current OS versions?

Last edited by Peregrino69 (2023-01-23 11:15:33)

rbh

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Re: Beryllium and NVIDIA MCP61 chipset no audio [NO SOLUTION]

Have you run "nvidia-detect", does that give any usefull info?
Is any driver for sound loaded?

If you run command "lspci -nn | grep Audio", you will get exact id (Vendor ID:Modell ID), and you can look it up on https://linux-hardware.org/?view=search (or run a hardware probe).

If it is 10de:03f0, you can see, that most systems only marks it as "detected", not "Works"...

I have an old system, where I have problem with microphone port and instead use usb audio dongle... that is allwayds a possible workaround.

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Peregrino69

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Registered: 2016-03-11

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Re: Beryllium and NVIDIA MCP61 chipset no audio [NO SOLUTION]

Yap, I did check and found the same. Following that path I found that it should load the snd-hda-intel -driver, but the one in current kernel doesn't support that chipset anymore. Eventually I ended up installing #!++ v.9 (Stretch), and audio is working. And then I found that the video actually doesn't run so well after all

With Stretch I've found other issues which lead me to believe the mobo or the chipset is actually failing (disk randomly not found at bootup, video and network connectivity issues) so I think it's time to just put the old box out of its misery.

Thanks anyhoo