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pjp
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 Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 4:07 pm Post subject: SoundBlaster AWE32 driver? |
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Anyone familiar with which driver supports the AWE32? Thought I'd check before heading into trail and error land.
When I start Gnome, it reports an error about /dev/mixer. I added myself to the audio group, so permission
shouldn't (?) be the problem. |
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tod
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Location: Ozarks, USA
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
I believe this is a devfs issue. Some sound apps (i.e. i think esd is one of these) aren't devfs aware and try to probe /dev/mixer before loading the sound modules and consequently initiating devfs to dynamically create the appropriate dev's.
Things to try:
1. pre- modload your sound drivers before starting gnome.
2. double check your /etc/devfs.conf, specifically the sound sections
3. I found that starting up gmixer, will sometimes automagically get sound working.
hth
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I didn't wait long, so I did a kernel rebuild. No luck though, same problem.
I changed kernel options for OSS sound, Persistant DMA buffers and AWE 32.
That seemed to be appropriate according to the kernel config help info.
| Quote: | | 1. pre- modload your sound drivers before starting gnome. |
I don't have any idea what that means  . Though I configure sound in the kernel, not as a module (is that relevant?)
| Quote: | | 2. double check your /etc/devfs.conf, specifically the sound sections |
I looked, but I'm not sure what to "double check". Here's the sound stuff:
# ALSA/OSS stuff
# Comment/change these if you want to change the permissions on
# the audio devices
LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd
LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD
LOOKUP mixer MODLOAD
LOOKUP midi MODLOAD
REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
| Quote: | | 3. I found that starting up gmixer, will sometimes automagically get sound working. |
I didn't find a gmixer anywhere. I did find gmix, but it produced the same error message (I need to close Gnome and retry).
Is there some base sound stuff I should be installing?
Thanks for the suggestions. |
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