Strange ALSA problem

butters · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:50 am Post subject: Strange ALSA problem

I have ALSA support in my 2.6.9-cko3 kernel and dmesg shows that my i8x0 is correctly inititialized. I had problems emerging xfce since xfmixer depends on alsa-driver, and for some reason adding media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.7 to /etc/portage/package.provided didn't remove the dependency. I resorted to emerge --inject on alsa-driver in order to emerge alsa-lib and alsa-utils. I can unmute the mixer channels using amixer, but it never creates a /etc/asound.state file and therefore the alsasound script complains. However, despite being able to control the mixer channels, neither xfmixer nor XMMS can open the alsa device.

I am running udev, and the user is in the audio group. I haven't played with any of the alsa configuration files (they are default). I know this has worked before, any help?
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Ateo · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject:

For starters, the kernel 2.6.x series has ALSA as part of the distrubted package. No need to "inject" the alsa kernel as you would never install it on a 2.6 kernel anyways...

Anyways, is ALSA built in or built as modules. Have you tried building them as the other to note the outcome?