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Stormblazer
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 Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:07 am Post subject: ALSA issues [SOLVED] |
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I've used gentoo before, but I recently went through the process of re-installing it after re-partioning the drive. Anyways, I set up ALSA just as I had before using the via onboard driver (compiled directly into the kernel) and it's not working.
There's no errors, it simply doesn't work. SDL sound output DOES work, but nothing will connect to the actual ALSA framework.
I've tried alsamixer, it returns "no mixer elements found".
I've tried alsaconf, which says no compatible cards listed (unless I compile my via driver as a module instead, but if I do that, then sound doesn't work at all even when i load the module).
It's the exact driver I used before, snd-via82xx.
The only error data I can provide is from alsaconf:
When I start alsaconf, it first shows this:
| Code: | could not find module snd
could not find module snd
could not find module snd |
If I compile my sound card driver directly into the kernel, it says it can't find any compatible cards.
If I compile it as a module, my card does come up in the listing, and when I select it, it comes up with:
| Code: | configuring snd-****
Do you want to modify err?
Configuring [lib/liblow.c(329)]:
Do you want to modify /etc/modules.d/alsa ? |
I select yes, and then it says it's configured and starts up the init script to add it in- then the script comes up with something about
FATAL: Cannot find module snd-****
I'm calling that from memory since it flashes on the screen very briefly and I can't scroll back up to it because it's overwritten when the script ends.
I'm at a loss as to what the problem is, I've recompiled the kernel a couple times, nothing seems to work at all.
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Stormblazer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:18 am Post subject: |
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Update: On reboot after switching the alsa driver back to built-in, sound has completely stopped working, no error messages again other than the FATAL: module snd-**** not found bit when starting alsa through rc. Not even SDL works now.
Another Update: I tried running mplayer with alsa set as the output- the error message was:
| Code: | alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1239:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. |
So, I checkout /dev/snd, and the contents were:
| Code: | localhost bin # ls /dev/snd/
controlC0 midiC0D0 midiC0D2 pcmC1D0c pcmC1D1c seq
controlC1 midiC0D1 midiC0D3 pcmC1D0p pcmC1D1p timer |
Does this mean it's misinterpreting the midi drivers or something? I really want my sound to work... |
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Stormblazer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:56 am Post subject: |
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Solved!
I talked with another user over the irc #gentoo channel, and bewteen us managed to figure out the problem was the alsa-oss package, which for some reason wasn't installed although it should have been. |
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