Hello,
I seem to have a mental block with alsa install. When I test for sound
with aplay, I get no noise and this result:
abu /usr/yokel/bin ./aplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Window_Open.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Window_Open.wav' : Signed 16 bit
Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stere
Takashi Iwai wrote:
abu ~ /usr/yokel/bin/aplay /usr/local/share/sounds/melnorme-primary.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/local/share/sounds/melnorme-primary.wav' :
Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:523:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN
failed: Input/output error
this can
barryc wrote:
Not too long ago, I tried installing Alsa drivers on Redhat9.
sndconfig identifies the sound chip on my system board as a VIA 82c686A
I keep this machine up to date with the Redhat released updates (via up2date)
I tried following the directions on the alsa-project website, (via82xx d
Testing alsa with a .wav file I have lying around, this is what I get.
The sould is ~1 second long, but it takes ~10 seconds after printing
"Mono" for it to get around to printing the error and returning:
abu ~ /usr/yokel/bin/aplay /usr/local/share/sounds/melnorme-primary.wav
Playing WAVE '/
One topic not covered in either the ALSA
HOWTO, nor in the ALSA
Mini-HOWTO, nor at the website, is what tarball-packages need
to be downloaded in order to actually hear sound from speakers using
alsa!!! Its so obvious to you guys you forgot to mention it, but
not to me! www.alsa-project.org's
I think I'm close to having a working alsa install, but something still
isn't right. Xmms comes up, and I can press play, but nothing happens
- like its not progressing through the song, and no noise comes out. I
think I have all 9million kernel modules loaded:
abu:/etc# lsmod | grep snd
snd
