ALSA not working

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject:

dkaplowitz,

udev should add all the sound entries and symlinks to /dev as the moudes load. The script creates them statically, which is not teh same things at all. The fact that you needed the script, points to udev not working, which probably means it won't create other /dev entries for you in the future when you add other equipment.
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dkaplowitz · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply, Neddy. I noticed the udev failing at boot time. That gives me enough to go on to fix it. I appreciate it.
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EOF · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 345 Location: Usingen

I also cannot get my sis 761 cipset to produce sound. I tried hard with and without kernel and still cannot succeed

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I use the newest devkernel 2.6.15.
Currently i have compiled alsa-driver:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject:

EOF,

You have a pure ALSA setup. You should find that /dev/snd, you alsa files are are there but your ALSA emulation of OSS in /dev/sound is either missing or has most elemenets missing.

Most games and a few apps need OSS but XMMS and friends, Xine mplayer can use either ALSA or OSS.

What you need to do to add OSS emualtion support depends on how you have installed sound so far.
Its possible you have it but its not loaded because your /etc/modules.d/alsa file is incorrect.

jonathanhaddock · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 19

Hi all,

Got it working - compiled the driver and alsa into the kernel and then downloaded the driver source code and ran the snddevices script (which I suspect is very similar to the script above).

Only problem now is that on boot:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:45 am Post subject:

jonathanhaddock,

Those errors mean one of the following :-
1) The kernel and the modules listed in the error were maded with different gcc versions.
2) You changed some key kernel config options between making the kernel and some modules.

The fix is the same in both case, rebuild your kernel and its modules with your current gcc after cleaning outthe ols binaries from the tree.

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jonathanhaddock · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 19

@NeddySeagoon

I tried the fix you provided and then used genkernel to build my new kernel,

the errors are still present.

I also tried to compile in acpi but that fails too

Any ideas? It isn't a problem - more of an inconvenience to see kernel error messages and suggests to me that other thingss on the system might go wrong too...

Thanks in advance.

Jonathan

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weird wonko · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 141

I think I just had a similar or the same problem.

A temporary fix was to issue a udevstart and /etc/init.d/alsasound restart.

A more permanent fix was to change the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL option in /etc/conf.d/rc to yes. I don't like it that way, but it works for now.