>>>>> "Frans" == Frans Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Frans> On 23 Jun 2002 17:12:00 +0300
    Frans> Aharon Schkolnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

    >> Hi.
    >> 
    >> I have been successfully using also for quite a while, but I
    >> just upgraded to Redhat 7.3, a new kernel, and a new version of
    >> alsa, and now I can't get any sound at all.

    Frans> What's the exact problem (application and behaviour: error
    Frans> messages, "does nothing until killed", seems to play but I
    Frans> don't hear anything)?
 

Here's an example:


$aplay  /home/aharon/download/tkbiff-3.13/audio/strength.au
Playing Sparc Audio '/home/aharon/download/tkbiff-3.13/audio/strength.au' : Mu-Law, 
Rate 8000 Hz, Mono


No errors, but no sound !


    >> Hope someone can help !
    >> 
    >> Here are the details:
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Kernel 2.4.18-3 (built it myself)
    >> 
    >> alsa-driver-0.9.0rc2 alsa-lib-0.9.0rc2 alsa-tools-0.9.0rc1
    >> alsa-utils-0.9.0rc2 alsa-oss-0.9.0rc1
    >> 
    >> (built them all from source)
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> All the modules appear to have loaded properly - here's lsmod:
    >> 
    >> 
    >> #lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: PF snd-pcm-oss 41508 1
    >> (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 10944 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
    >> snd-intel8x0 13728 2 (autoclean) snd-ac97-codec 28836 0
    >> (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0] snd-pcm 68256 0 (autoclean)
    >> [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] snd-timer 13888 0 (autoclean)
    >> [snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 4316 0 (autoclean) [snd-intel8x0]
    >> snd-rawmidi 17120 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
    >> snd-seq-device 5532 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi] snd 36296 0
    >> (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0
    >> snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi
    >> snd-seq-device] vmnet 21600 6 vmmon 22260 0 (unused) 3c59x
    >> 27656 1
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Here's /etc/modules.conf:
    >> 
    >> 
    >> alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias eth0 3c59x
    >> 
    >> alias char-major-116 snd
    >> 
    >> alias char-major-14 soundcore
    >> 
    >> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
    >> 
    >> 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_cards_limit=1
    >> 
    >> 
    >> alias char-major-178 mga_vid

    Frans> <snip> everything looks OK to me :)
 
    >> #cat /home/aharon/download/tkbiff-3.13/audio/strength.au
    >> >/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c cat: write error: Invalid argument
    >> 
    >> #cat /home/aharon/download/tkbiff-3.13/audio/strength.au
    >> >/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p cat: write error: File descriptor in bad
    >> state

    Frans> You can't cat to to/from those devices, use aplay or
    Frans> arecord. Since you have the OSS emulation modules loaded
    Frans> you can cat to/from /dev/dsp I think.


$cat   /home/aharon/download/tkbiff-3.13/audio/strength.au >/dev/dsp


no  errors, but no sound !

    Frans>
    Frans> 
====================================================================================================
    >> cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
    >> Driver Version 0.9.0rc2.  Compiled on Jun 23 2002 for kernel
    >> 2.4.18-3custom with versioned symbols.

    Frans> That looks good! Maybe see the INSTALL file about running
    Frans> the snddevices script or on how to modify /etc/devfsd.conf
    Frans> if you're using devfs. HTH,


Ran the snddevices script.

Thanks for trying !




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