All, I was able to get the correct driver, snd-intel8x0, to correctly recognize my sound thanks to Mikhail's help. I then installed the alsa-libraries and the alsa utilities. Using the alsamixer I turned all of my sound up to 100% across all channels. I then tried to get sound from the CD player that came with RedHat 9 to no avail. I also tried using 'cat' to send a file to pcmC0D0c and didn't here any sound. I'm missing another simple piece here.
Also, I still can't get the driver to load from modules.conf. Is there somewhere I can get information on the proper aliases to put in my modules.conf for this soundcard for both the driver and mixers I need? Is there a graphical mixer I can use from GNOME so I can turn the volume up and down? > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Hicken > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:18 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: Grant Sumsion > Subject: ALSA INSTALL HELP.... > Importance: High > > All, > > I have spent the better part of two days trying, without much success, to > get ALSA 0.9.5d to work on RedHat 9 with the 2.4.20-19 kernel. I have > read both the ALSA mini-HOW-TO and the main HOW-TO. I will list my > questions below. > > > 1. I have three machines that have a SiS 7012 chipset. According to > what I can find, the i810_audio.o modules should work for these machines. > Here are the steps I used to try to make this work for these three > machines: > > a. ./configure # I let it compile with OSS emulation > turned on# > b. make > c. make install > d. ./snddevices # just to be sure > > e. modprobe i810_audio from the terminal. # I get an error > telling me that I have an invalid IRQ or IO resource. > > Also, there are contradictory statements regarding how the > modules.conf file should be setup in the two HOW-TO documents. This is > what I finally put in the modules.conf file: > a. alias char-major-116 snd > b. alias char-major-14 soundcore #OSS emulation > c. alias sound-slot 0 snd-card-0 > d. alias snd-card-0 i810_audio > > > TROUBLESHOOTING > a. I tried modprobing the AC97 module and the snd module > from the terminal. These two modules inserted correctly and showed up > with lsmod along with the soundcore module. > b. However, 'cat /proc/asound/cards' shows that there are > no soundcards present. > c. I then changed modules.conf to put ac97 in the place of > i810_audio and rebooted. The modules were not loaded but I could manually > load them ( the logs showed no errors). RedHat will recognized > the card but give me a dsp error when I play the test sound from > 'redhat-config-soundcard'. I assume it is trying to use OSS and really > causing issues. > d. After this however, 'cat /proc/asound/cards' shows that a > soundcard is present. > > Should I turn OSS emulation off? Am I using the right > driver? Do I need more info in modules.conf? What am I missing? Also, > when I try to compile the utilities to use the amixer, I get an error > stating that the libasound headers .90 are not present. Any > ideas why? Since RedHat uses OSS, shouldn't the mixer it puts in > modules.conf work? What entries in modules.conf should the mixer have? > > > 2. I also have a machine that has either a ADI integrated Audio soundcard > or a Sigmatel Integrated Audio soundcard. I have no idea which module > activates sound for these cards. The sound matrix on ALSA's website made > no mention either. Any help would be appreciated. I tried 'modrobe -t > sound' in the sound directory and it loaded the ac97 module as well. > > > I realize that I am missing a simple piece of the puzzle here so if > you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. Please send an email > to the mailing list and directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] It sure > would be nice if ALSA autodetected the chipset in use and update the > modules.conf file :) Thanks for taking the time to review this. > > > Doug Hicken. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
