Mark Knecht wrote:
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
I am sorry. There was no error in my configuration. Instead the error
was in how I tested the setup. I gave the command cat /dev/random >
/dev/dsp, haha. It should have been /dev/urandom. I just missed the "u'.
Still, I don't know why alsaconf didn't work. Now that I have sound
working, I am loath to tweek with anything.
Thanks though for the support!
Sincerely, Rob.
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