ALSA not working at all

drgenius87 · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject: ALSA not working at all

Whenever i type in alsaconf i am returned with

einstein1981 · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:

what do you get when you do lsmod?

are you sure you compiled the support for your sound card/

which kernel are you running?

It would seem by the errors you posted that alsa wasn't compiled correctly, so I would reemerge alsa, and alsa utils, and maybe, add the sound card in the make.conf file

ALSA_CARDS=intel8x0

for instance if you have an intel8x0 card

hope this helps
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drgenius87 · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject:

I did not compile anything as a module, so lsmod wouldn't give me what I need. I am using the 2.6.5 kernel, and support for both the onboard sound and sound card in the pci slot are compiled into the kernel, along with Advanced Linux Sound Architecture and Sequencer Support.

I unmerged and re emerged alsa drivers and alsa-utils plenty of times, with no luck.
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reaver · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:43 pm Post subject: MAKEDEV.snd

try this

drgenius87 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:16 am Post subject:

Nope amixer is still giving the same error.
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einstein1981 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:23 am Post subject:

What sound card do you have?

I don't quite understand whats hapening but , if you know what sound card you have maybe we can reconfigure alsa

it seems to be a config problem, not hardware so, it's fixable
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drgenius87 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:30 am Post subject:

The sound card I'm using is the AOpen Cobra AW-850 with the C-Media CMI8738 chipset.
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einstein1981 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:36 am Post subject:

check these out :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=651
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?module=cmipci

they have lots of info for your card!

specialy the second one, i'd follow it step by step.

I personaly have a laptop with intel 8x0 integrated ( nothing fancy) but fairly easy to configure...

read on, there is a solution for that
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drgenius87 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:45 am Post subject:

Alright well within the kernel config, how should I load the following:
<>Sound Card Support
<>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<>Sequencer Support

???all as modules or only some? the support for the actual CM8738 is a module right?
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einstein1981 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 1:14 am Post subject:

well this really up to you , I preffer to compile everything that is network or sound related into the kernel (*), but all the alsa docs tell you as modules, but the only logical reason I have for this is that when the alsa docs were written, they were for the 2.4 kernel, which didn't have alsa integrated , so you had to emerge..

now, enable also oss emulation..

follow the guide lines for the config and you should be allright

good luck
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drgenius87 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:04 am Post subject:

Why OSS Emulation i got it working without it :-P

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einstein1981 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:06 am Post subject:

so you've fixed your problem?

I said oss emulation because it might be necesary with some programs which aren't migrated to alsa yet,they still depend on oss, i don't know of any, because I use only new ones, but There is a reason why it's still there!
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drgenius87 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:11 am Post subject:

Yea I have sound, in fact even the 6 channel sound is working, everything is...its nice.
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