AWE32 Sound Problem

[robertnn]

Well my problem is that my card (AWE 32 Plug and Play) won't play any music.
Whenever I start to play some sound file there is half a second of creepy noise and ... nothing.

I suppose that alsa configuration has worked.

My lsmod output:

nls_iso8859-1 2780 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4316 0 (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss 35460 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 11128 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
floppy 47036 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 24520 0
parport 22720 0 [parport_pc]
ohci1394 15592 0 (unused)
ieee1394 29708 0 [ohci1394]
via-rhine 12016 1
mii 2160 0 [via-rhine]
snd-sbawe 16128 1
snd-sb16-dsp 5296 0 [snd-sbawe]
snd-pcm 52960 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-sb16-dsp]
snd-page-alloc 4524 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-sb16-csp 14472 0 [snd-sbawe]
snd-sb-common 6436 0 [snd-sbawe snd-sb16-dsp snd-sb16-csp]
snd-opl3-lib 5348 0 [snd-sbawe]
snd-timer 12616 0 [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-hwdep 4576 0 [snd-sb16-csp snd-opl3-lib]
snd-mpu401-uart 2752 0 [snd-sbawe]
snd-rawmidi 12288 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3808 0 [snd-sbawe snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]
snd 25988 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-sbawe snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-sb16-csp snd-sb-common snd-opl3-lib snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
vfat 9324 0 (autoclean)
fat 29816 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
soundcore 3364 6 [snd]
isa-pnp 28100 0 [snd-sbawe]
nvidia 1626688 11
usb-storage 55608 0 (unused)
hid 12468 0 (unused)
uhci 23008 0 (unused)
usbcore 55264 1 [usb-storage hid uhci]

BTW I do not have a /dev/sndstat. Does this matter?

I have set the mixer settings. Moreover there are no warnings or errors, just some scattering sound and nothing to follow (no music). Tried that with wav and mps files, same effect.

I remember to have similar sound problems on my FreeBSD box. Disabling ACPI helped me. How is that done under Gentoo?

Just help me out, the whole thing sucks.

I can't think of any things I have done wrong.

Thanks in advance.

[StringCheesian]

In you grub.conf (I dunno about lilo), put acpi=off pci=noacpi after root=/dev/whatever
I had to do that to be able to access the internet.

Why does acpi support mess up sound and/or network for some people?

[camillo]

I have the same problem with kernel 2.6.3-gentoo-r1
To fix it I've done the following things:

emerge alsa-lib version 1.0.2 (DEFAULT 0.9.x)
emerge alsa-utils version 1.0.2 (DEFAULT 0.9.x)

Set in the bios PLUG AND PLAY OS : NO

I hope to be usefull


Bye Camillo