I have a very bizarre ALSA problem: all the modules load correctly, including snd-pcm-oss, but I can only play MIDI files. Anything else (e.g. "mpg123 x.mp3" or "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio") produces neither sound nor error messages.
I'm running ALSA 0.9, as distributed in Debian Testing (Woody), on an IBM Thinkpad 600E. Several other owners of Thinkpad 600's who have documented their Linux experiences on the Web claim that the snd-card-cs4236 module works for them; indeed, after alsaconf generated a modules.conf section accordingly, it modprobed without incident. ALSA appears to start and stop itself via /etc/init.d/alsa without any difficulty. All the mixers are unmuted and at 100%, of course. And yet, neither ALSA nor OSS players can play anything besides MIDI files. Can anyone suggest why this might be so? I've attached the ALSA part of my modules.conf in case that is helpful. Note that this sound chip is ISA: I obtained the snd_port, snd_irq, snd_dma1, and snd_dma2 values from IBM's ps2.exe BIOS utility. The others are alsaconf defaults except for snd_cport, which I got from Thinkpad-600E-HOWTO recommendations. I think that if any of these were wrong it would not even modprobe successfully. Thanks in advance! This card has been a source of misery with both OSS and ALSA; if it weren't a laptop, I would long ago have bought a more Linux-friendly sound board. -- DavidG [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals." -Edmund Wilson, "Letters on Literature and Politics"
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.3b --- alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs4236 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0 options snd-card-cs4236 snd_index=0 snd_id=CARD_0 snd_isapnp=0 snd_port=0x530 snd_cport=0x538 snd_mpu_port=0x330 snd_fm_port=0x388 snd_irq=5 snd_mpu_irq=9 snd_dma1=0 snd_dma2=1 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
