On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:04:49PM -0500, Chris Mitchell wrote: > Hi all. > I'm a bit stumped in my efforts to get ALSA sound working... > and I've been unable to find much in the way of docs for ALSA > (No "man alsa", /usr/doc/alsa* adds up to a couple examples, several > copies of the changelog, and some copyright info... and alsa-project.org > seems to have little or nothing beyond the "sound-card matrix"). Any > help and/or pointers to (helpful) docs would be greatly appreciated... (snip) > I installed alsa-base 0.9+0beta12, alsa-modules 0.9+0beta10, and > alsa-utils 0.5.10-1... This required me to upgrade to kernel 2.4.16-686. > Done (and verified with uname that that is the currently booted kernel). > I established that my card (SBLive! 5.1) is called emu10k1, and > told ALSA to use that module... > lsmod has this to say: > snd-card-emu10k1 1952 0 (unused) > snd-emu10k1 47200 0 [snd-card-emu10k1] > snd-pcm 46176 0 [snd-emu10k1] > snd-timer 9056 0 [snd-pcm] > snd-rawmidi 11456 0 [snd-emu10k1] > snd-hwdep 3456 0 [snd-emu10k1] > snd-util-mem 1184 0 [snd-emu10k1] > snd-ac97-codec 22848 0 [snd-emu10k1] > snd-seq-device 3744 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] > snd 23336 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm > snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec > snd-seq-device] > soundcore 3556 2 [snd]
This looks good, but it appears that the OSS compatibility modules are not loaded. These can be enabled by editing /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf: startosslayer=true > And every time I log in to Gnome, or launch Gnome's mixer applet, I get > a popup error saying "couldn't open mixer device /dev/mixer". When I > try amixer as root or regular user, I get more of "Mixer attach default > error: No such file or directory". > > Now, I *know* the card is good because it works (beautifully) under > WinXP (Dual-boot machine... I haven't made a clean break so far)... > > So... please somebody give me a nudge in the right direction. The following link provides instructions on how to how to configure the alsa modules for this card and Debian: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Creative+Labs&card=Soundblaster+Live+Value&chip=EMU10K1&module=emu10k1#modp Are you by chance using DevFS? Does /dev/mixer exist? What are the permissions on it? -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
