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d2_racing
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So, if I'm right on this, alsaconf only works when you make your soundcard drivers as module  |
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eigenman
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| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| Well, I have the same issue, and all my sound drivers are compiled as modules. Running /etc/init.d/alsasound start, the drivers are loaded, and searching through /proc/asound, the nvidia card is in fact found. However, alsamixer still fails (even as root). |
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eigenman
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alright, the more I look at my own problem, the more it seems like the issue is from udev rules. As far as I can tell, the module find the right sound card, and initializes it. However, there are no /dev/snd created. I looked at /etc/udev/rules.d
directory, but there are nothing about snd our sound in any of the files. Is this similar to the problem that others are having?
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eigenman
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:13 am Post subject: |
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Sure enough, oss4 worked out without any problem. Ironically enough, after installing oss4, I figured out what is wrong with alsa. It turned out that in the boot process, devfs was being loaded and messing up everything. Since I haven't been using devfs for a long long time, I'm guessing that during the upgrade to openrc, devfs was added to sysinit by default, while udev* was not included. (Teaches me to try to start the new year with a new upgrade.  )
Anyways, I wonder if others have hit the same problem, and if so, hopefully this will help them.
(as an amusing aside, both alsa and oss4 have the problem of not muting my internal speaker when headphones are plugged in, at ths point.) |
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MickKi
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| d2_racing wrote: | | So, if I'm right on this, alsaconf only works when you make your soundcard drivers as module |
Yes, this is the case with my problem and I think this is the case in general - alsaconf works only if you have built your sound drivers as modules.
A first for me is that modules work, built-in drivers do not. For some years now I have been building alsa drivers in the kernel, since I need them every time I boot the box and have always just worked.
Since I usually build the drivers in the kernel I have not been using alsaconf - anyway I only have one sound card.
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