Hi Elimar,
I have been in touch with the person who wrote the drivers for my sound
card (Giuliano Pochini <poch...@shiny.it>), I in1quired as to the
possible usefulness (in terms of resolving my sound problem) in updating
the alsa drivers... (there is a newer version). He said:
Problem for me, is this question (in terms of installation);
I should overwrite the modules. The you have to either reboot or remove and
reload them. Just do:
tar xjf alsa-driver-xxx.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-xxx
./configure --with-cards=mia,virmidi --with-sequencer=yes
make
make install
reboot
virmidi may be useful (for example it allows you to route the output of
scummvm to Timidity). Add other cards to the list if any. The modules will be
installed in /lib/modules/<version>/kernel/sound/ .
> The alsa web page on installation seems to assume that alsa is not
> installed (perhaps I am reading this incorrectly?),
It's very simple: just do the steps above.
If, by chance, you are hot on the trail of a bug in the system, & it
would be helpful for me to test something or the other, I would be
willing, for the sake of Linux usability, to wait to try the above to
test some potential resolution to my now defunct sound problem,
otherwise, I am thinking I should like to try & update the alsa-driver
(i.e., to alsa-driver-1.0.24), I am in the middle of some audio/midi
projects, etc..
Thanks much, as always.
Henry
P.s., I sent the last email to the 614...@bugs.debian.org address, I
received an acknowledgment of receipt, but did not see this at the bug
web site, I guess I do not really know how this system works, since I
use alsa quite a bit, some direction that explains could help me to
report bugs, etc., in the future, better (possibly), if need be, & or to
help out, as possible.
I did a search, both in my home folder & system files, on the word '.asoundrc'
& neither places did such a file show up.
I also tried doing 'aplay -vv /home/henry/Music/LouisArmstrong.wav' as root (I
did assume you actually wanted the result with the resaved '.asoundrc' so this
probably does not mean much), same result (pasted below):
# aplay -vv /home/henry/Music/LouisArmstrong.wav
Playing WAVE '/home/henry/Music/LouisArmstrong.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
aplay: set_params:1116: Unable to install hw params:
ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT: S16_LE
SUBFORMAT: STD
SAMPLE_BITS: 16
FRAME_BITS: 32
CHANNELS: 2
RATE: 44100
PERIOD_TIME: (124807 124808)
PERIOD_SIZE: 5504
PERIOD_BYTES: 22016
PERIODS: 4
BUFFER_TIME: (499229 499230)
BUFFER_SIZE: 22016
BUFFER_BYTES: 88064
TICK_TIME: 0
Henry
P.s., to be (more) clear, were you wanting me basically just to rename
'.asoundrc' if I actually found it?
On 02/22/2011 05:52 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
* Henry W. Peters [110222 17:28 -0500]:
Hi Elimar,
Here is the result of
~$ aplay -vv /home/henry/Music/LouisArmstrong.wav
Playing WAVE '/home/henry/Music/LouisArmstrong.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little
Do you have a $HOME/.asoundrc flowing around?
If so, move your .asoundrc to .asoundrc.save and test again.
Could you please test the same as root?
Are the mixer controls set right?
Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
aplay: set_params:1116: Unable to install hw params:
ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT: S16_LE
SUBFORMAT: STD
SAMPLE_BITS: 16
FRAME_BITS: 32
CHANNELS: 2
RATE: 44100
PERIOD_TIME: (124807 124808)
PERIOD_SIZE: 5504
PERIOD_BYTES: 22016
PERIODS: 4
BUFFER_TIME: (499229 499230)
BUFFER_SIZE: 22016
BUFFER_BYTES: 88064
TICK_TIME: 0
No sound... I'll post this as a note to the bug report.
Please reply to 614...@bugs.debian.org as well, so that everything
is documented to your bug.
Elimar
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