Thanks to all who responded to my query for help with ALSA and an opl3sa2 card. After reading the replies, I edited /etc/modules.conf (despite the warnings in the file) to comment out some mistaken parameters put there when update-modules read an incorrect alsa file in /etc/modutils.
One more question. Neither gnome-cd nor Kscd will play an audio CD unless the programs are launched from root. I assume this is a permissions issue. How do I correct it? Thanks again, Ted On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:50:22 +0100, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Ted Parks (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I have posted several queries, but no response. I would appreciate any > > help. > > Actually you got an answer from me asking for more information, but no > further reaction from you. > > > After numerous attempts to load the ALSA driver snd-opl3sa2 on my > > Toshiba Tecra 8000 running Sarge, I finally figured out the parameters > > to pass to modprobe. The driver now loads, but manually. > > > > I cannot get ALSA to run properly on bootup. I get an error message > > about /etc/rc2.d that says alsactl cannot find the card. I think I set > > up /etc/modutils/alsa correctly. > > How did you set it up? Did you run update-modules? And most important: > Du you use kernel 2.4? If you use 2.6, you need to > change /etc/modprobe.d/sound. If you do use 2.4, make sure that there > is no /etc/modutils/sound with settings that conflict with your alsa > file. Also make sure that discover1 and hotplug, if installed, are > present in the latest versions so the OSS drivers won't be loaded. > > > How do I get ALSA to run alsactl correctly on bootup? Running alsaconf > > is not an option for me because it cannot find the correct parameters > > for the card. > > Alsaconf won't do much else than changing /etc/modutils/sound > and /etc/modprobe.d/sound. Also, if you ran alsaconf, it is possible > that you now have a file /etc/modprobe.conf, which is empty. Remove > it, /etc/modprobe.d/* will be ignored otherwise. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen > > -- > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 > Registered Linux User #267976 > http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
