Good news. Write back if you need anything. Cheers, Mark
On 10/13/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
