ALSA emu10k1 Installation guide mismatch.

Raymond R

Hello all,
I am new to Gentoo. I have gotten it into KDE with only minor problems, but now I am having some trouble configuring the sound.
I have a Soundblaster Live! sound card.

I have followed the ALSA sound install guide to a tee:
# cd /usr/src/linux
# cp .config ~/
# make mrproper
# cp ~/.config .
# make menuconfig
In this section I configured the "Sound devices" to an "M" or module. I have no other sound devices selected as per the instructions.

# make dep clean
# make modules modules_install
So far so good.

# grep audio /proc/pci
Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10K1 (rev 7).
No surprises here.

# env ALSA_CARDS='emu10k1' emerge emu10k1
This proceeds as I think it should. It downloads the module, and installs it.

The next part is where I have troubles. In the secion "Configuration of ALSA" the instructions direct me to edit a file called /etc/modules.d/alsa.
On my system that file does not exist.

Any thoughts?

henke

Raymond R · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks. I will try that right now.
Boy is my face red....

Raymond R · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:28 pm Post subject:

I did as you suggested:
emerge unmerge emu10k1
env ALSA_CARDS='emu10k1' emerge alsa-driver
I also did emerge alsa-oss

I got a bit further, but now I get an error on bootup.
it is an insmod error saying no such device found. (for snd-emu10k1.o)
When I tried to initialize the sound card as per the instructions it gave me the same error.
It mentioned that it could be caused by invalid IO and IRQ paramters.

Any more ideas?

eNTi · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject:

you need to emerge alsa-lib as well. you might also emerge alsa-utils and alsa-tools.
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Raymond R · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:54 pm Post subject:

I emerged all of the packages (alsa-lib, tools, util) as you suggested, and I still get the same thing.
When I run a "lsmod" I get NVdriver and 3c59x (my Geforce and my 3Com network card). But no sound device.
If I try and restart the alsasound service I get WARNING: "alsasound" has already been started. If I try and stop it I get *ALSA driver is not loaded.

Under Info Center and Interrupts (KDE program) it shows EMU10K1, nvidia both on interrupt 11. Is this cause for concern?

I appreciate all of your help so far!

henke · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:19 am Post subject:

Hmm, I'm note sure what is causing your problems. Alsa is kind of weird because it takes care of loading all the modules it needs itself. No messing with modules.autoload ...

You might first want to check that you actually have the file snd-emu10k1.o on your system.

jasonm · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:38 am Post subject:

Hey Raymond R,

It might have something to do with the fact that

# update-modules

has been changed to

# modules-update

They have done this for system consistency sake ( rc-update, env-update, etc.)

Don't know if that will make a difference, but it certainly cannot hurt :lol:

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Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:40 am Post subject:

I ran the updatedb (it took a bit)
Then I ran locate snd-emu10k1.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o
is where it is.
I also ran update-modules. No difference.

Here is the error I get on boot up:
carbon root # /etc/init.d/alsasound start
* Initialising ALSA....
* Starting sound driver: snd-emu10k1 /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o: insmod snd-emu10k1 failed

I have moved the card twice now. The second time it was finally on a different interrupt than the Geforce card. This does not make any difference though.

Here is the end of the output from dmesg
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
00:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xd000. Vers LK1.1.16
nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0-3123 Tue Aug 27 15:56:48 PDT 2002
EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or device busy
NVRM: AGPGART: VIA Apollo KT133 chipset
NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 256M @ 0xc0000000
NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xc0000000 to 0xe197c000
NVRM: AGPGART: mode 4x
NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages
devfs_mk_dir(snd): using old entry in dir: c1590140 ""
EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or device busy
EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or device busy

Have I got ya stumped yet?

Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:42 am Post subject:

Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 1:04 am Post subject:

henke · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 1:22 am Post subject:

Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 2:27 am Post subject:

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 3:01 am Post subject:

The first instance of emu10k1 that shows up in dmesg is not from the emu10k1 ebuild.
You have emu10k1 compiled into your kernel (not a module).
If you are sure you compiled your kernel without this option, the next step is to check if you are actually running the kernel you just compiled.
"uname -a" will give you the time & date your running kernel was compiled.

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Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 4:36 am Post subject:

henke · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:47 pm Post subject:

Recompile your kernel by doing

Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 1:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks henke!
I will try that first thing after work.

Cheers!

Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 10:55 pm Post subject:

Raymond R · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject:

Got it!
To everyone that helped you have my gratitude!

For some reason there was no device (or link) in /dev called "boot".
When I mounted it I had to do it manually, so to speak:
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /boot

One I typed in the above I had access to the image and was able to replace it-no problems.
I rebooted, and unmuted the sound channels.
Now I am listening to some tunes.

Thanks again!

jasonm · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 12:14 am Post subject:

Glad to hear it

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henke · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 11:24 pm Post subject:

Great

PS. You might want to have a look at your /etc/fstab. /dev/BOOT should be replaced with /dev/hda1 I think...

Raymond R · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 11:29 pm Post subject:

Yeah probably. I created a link in dev from /dev/hda1 to /dev/BOOT.
All good now.