On 10/12/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have done the alsa configuration before, so I am kind of at a loss as > to why nothing is working. I believe that I followed the Gentoo Linux > Alsa Guide to the letter, but it was confusing. I had difficulty > figuring out which parts of the text applied to different ways of > configuring Alsa. For example, the use of modules vs. a compiled in > kernel Alsa. Also, when is the alsa-driver needed for operation? It > wouldn't compile when I tried it. > > I am using modules. Now, alsaconf failed when I tried it. It wrote > error messages to modules.d/alsa. I seem to remember the error entries > had a "snd-***" in them. But a manually edited modules.d/alsa and then > a modules-update allowed all the needed modules to be loaded during bootup. > > So lsmod shows all the needed modules loaded, alsamixer is fully unmuted > and the volumes turned up, yet no sound. I am certain that I have the > right modules for my soundcard as revealed by pciutils. > > Is there any other documentation for Alsa? Man alsa or alsasound > revealed nothing as well as apropos alsa. > > Thanks, Rob.
There's a lot of documentation at the Alsa site. That said, let's look around. Please post back the output of lspci lsmod cat /proc/asound/cards Remove any /etc/asound.state file, run alsamixer again, and then run alsactl store Locate a wave file and try playing that from the command line. What happens aplay file.wav - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
