Alsa and me dont like each other...(SOLVED!)

Invincible_777

I have got sound to work in linux maybe twice. The first time in Fedora core 1 (not FC2) and SuSE 9.2. I have always had problems with alsa..., It wont work no matter what I do!? I have a C-Media card, (and a AC' 97 build in sound card), but that doesnt support 4 channels. When I run alsaconf, it doesnt find the card (either) but when i run lspci, i get both, as well as dmesg. Plus, my alsa driver appently boots successfully at boot.

Can someone help me out, sound is to nice not to have, and I cant (wont) watch dvds without it!!

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truekaiser · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 801

have you tryed unmuteing your card?

stahlsau · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:56 am Post subject:

hi,
i´ve got an cmedia card, too, and i can only encourage you to use the OSS-drivers from www.opensound.com.
Alsa doesn´t support hardware-mixing with these cards, maybe there is a way to get this working with .asoundrc, but i wasn´t able to get it.
Now, with the OSS-Drivers, i´ve got hardware-mixed optical output and everything works ok.

PS: for getting software-mixing to work with alsa, have a look at this, it´s a very understandable guide.

truekaiser · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 801

Invincible_777 · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

I uh, got blasted!! I emerged all the alsa stuff, and I think unmerged the alsa-driver itself (I built it into my kernel...). Then I used alsamixergui to umute all I saw relevent. I found alsamixergui to be more helpful. I am SO happy. Thanks everyone!!
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truekaiser · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 801

no problem. the alsa team needs to change that. it's the bigest problem with people here, they are used to sound working the second you install the dirvers ala windows.