Re: [Alsa-user] Cannot Run alsamixer: Slackware-11.0/2.6.16.36 Kernel

2007-01-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 > Audio Controller (rev 02) More information. According to the ALSA web site, the driver for this chip is snd-intel8x0. Although I have that set for module

Re: [Alsa-user] Cannot Run alsamixer: Slackware-11.0/2.6.16.36 Kernel

2007-01-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > It's included with recent kernels - 2.4 is old... Lee, True. But, it's worked well with my systems and needs. > What is the output of "lsmod"? How about "cat /proc/asound/cards"? Ah, sorry. I should have included that information in the original p

[Alsa-user] Cannot Run alsamixer: Slackware-11.0/2.6.16.36 Kernel

2007-01-05 Thread Rich Shepard
We lost sound on all hosts when I built custom 2.4 kernels for Slackware-10.2 and I did not realize that ALSA is not normally included with the kernel series. Anyway, I built a custom 2.6 kernel on my notebook (now running Slackware-11.0) and am trying to get sound running there first. The knowl

Re: [Alsa-user] Cannot Run alsamixer: Slackware-11.0/2.6.16.36 Kernel

2007-01-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > It's included with recent kernels - 2.4 is old... Lee, Further update: I built and installed 2.6.18.6; this has the snd-intel8x0.ko driver. Rebooted. So far so good. I can run alsamixer and bring the volume controls all the way up to 90, but there's sti

Re: [Alsa-user] Cannot Run alsamixer: Slackware-11.0/2.6.16.36 Kernel

2007-01-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Arthur Marsh wrote: > In xmms, going to options, preferences, audio I/O plugins and make sure > that the ALSA output plugin is selected. You may need to restart xmms > for this to take effect. Arthur, Thank you. That solved the problem immediately. > In debugging ALSA, tr

[Alsa-user] No Sound With Videos

2007-01-15 Thread Rich Shepard
Running 2.6.x kernels here, and sound works well with mp3s playing on xmms. However, I cannot get any sound from videos playing with mplayer or gxine. This used to work with the 2.4.31 kernel. One of the local folks suggested that I need an oss->alsa converter module since most video formats

Re: [Alsa-user] No Sound With Videos -- RESOLVED

2007-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Dan Star wrote: > Looks like all that content is Flash so your web browser should play it > with the Flash plug-in. Dan, I have had the flash plugin installed, but did not upgrade it since last August. I just installed the latest version -- 9beta -- and it works. Thank y

[Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-02-28 Thread Rich Shepard
Had to reboot my server/workstation this morning and lost the sound. I've worked through the trouble shooting section of the wiki, but need some expert help in figuring out what got lost. Running 2.6.19.2 kernel lspci reports: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP2S AC'

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: > Had to reboot my server/workstation this morning and lost the sound. I've > worked through the trouble shooting section of the wiki, but need some > expert help in figuring out what got lost. Running 2.6.19.2 kernel Here's the

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > What happens when you try to "modprobe snd-intel8x0"? Lee, It fails, and I don't understand why: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /lib/modules/2.6.19.2/kernel/sound/pci]# modprobe snd-intel8x0 FATAL: Module snd_intel8x0 not found. I saw that it was looking for

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: >> What happens when you try to "modprobe snd-intel8x0"? > It fails, and I don't understand why: Here's the reason: dmesg | grep intel8x0 snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_pcm_close snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > You must have changed something since the last boot, like installing new > ALSA modules? Lee, Not since the last boot, that was yesterday. But, before that I did add the usb-snd modules to accommodate the boom headset I bought for use with Ekiga. Pl

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > You must have changed something since the last boot, like installing > new ALSA modules? Lee, Progress. I rebuilt and reinstalled modules, then modprobe loaded snd-intel8x0. Ran alfaconf; it found the card, did its thing, and told me ALSA was ready for

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > What is the output of "amixer" and "dmesg"? Lee, aumix [Enter] does nothing. dmesg was from yesterday and shows the broken intel8x0 module. Rich - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influen

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > What is the output of "amixer" and "dmesg"? Lee, The wiki troubleshooting page jumps from ensuring the sound cards are in /proc/asound/cards to running alsamixer as root and user. It doesn't say what to do if the mixer won't operate properly. Here a

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > What distro are you running? This stuff should just work. Lee, Slackware-11.0. All the drivers are in place now, but I cannot run a mixer to open channels. This was all working until yesterday morning's reboot. Thanks, Rich -

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Stephan Seitz wrote: > It seems your usb soundcard is now the first sound card in the system, so > all programs like aumix will use this card settings. And if I recall older > mails, usb soundcards dont have much mixer features. > > Solution: Remove all sound drivers and then l

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > What is the output of "amixer" and "dmesg"? Lee, Rebuilt the 2.6.19.2 kernel with module unload capability installed. amixer: Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Capture channels: Mono Limits: Capture 0 -

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > Sorry, I have no idea. Should work. Lee, Oh. OK. Before the kernel rebuild and rebooting the machine, there were two cards display USB and nVIDIA. Why the latter's not there makes no sense. Think I'll try unloading modules and reloading them. Than

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Solution: Remove all sound drivers and then load first the driver for the > nvidia card and then the driver for the usb card. Stephan, Did this, but stopped at reloading the nvidia card. Sound works. I've lost the libaudiofils.so.0, so I'll go put th

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot -- FIXED

2007-03-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > I don't know anything about aumix, but alsamixer -c 1 will give you > the mixer of the nvidia card. Lee, That's good to know. Thank you. I removed all sound modules (from the top down so here were no orphaned dependents), the loaded snd-intel8x0. It

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound Lost on Reboot -- FIXED

2007-03-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Dominique Michel wrote: > It seam at you have the problem at udev load your USB card before the > nvidia. To fix it, you can add usb-snd-audio in /etc/hotplug/blacklist, or > much better, use alsasound to do the work. For that, you must be sure at > you have something as the fo