Re: ALSA help!

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Harb
I had the same laptop until recently and had sarge running on it. Configuring the sound gave me a couple more grey hairs as well. Since I was quite the newbie when it comes to configuring that stuff it might be fairly dirty but it worked for me. Some webpage indicated that the chip used on the O

Re: ALSA help!

2005-06-01 Thread dbp lists
> I have always had issues gettign sound to work on this machine, but I > decided to attack it in earnest. > > I cannot seem to get it to work. I have tried everything. > > esd says /dev/dsp does not exist (it clearly does) > > XMMS gives me the standard Be sure nothing is blocking your Soundca

Re: ALSA help!

2005-05-31 Thread Derek Broughton
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:42, Douglas wrote: > I have tried that. His problem was that ALSA would not start. My issue > seems to be that it is running but for some reason my system believes > that /dev/dsp is inaccessible and that I have no sound device installed > at all, Alsaconf completes but

Re: ALSA help!

2005-05-31 Thread Koen Vermeer
Strange. Your ALSA is saying that it cannot find a soundcard. He is saying that you shouldn't use the nm256 driver. So, if you are using the nm256 driver, and he (and others) are saying that you need another driver to get a working setup, I'm not surprised that your ALSA config cannot find a soundc

Re: ALSA help!

2005-05-31 Thread Douglas
I have tried that. His problem was that ALSA would not start. My issue seems to be that it is running but for some reason my system believes that /dev/dsp is inaccessible and that I have no sound device installed at all, Alsaconf completes but displays : /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1236: N

Re: ALSA help!

2005-05-31 Thread Koen Vermeer
I'm honestly not trying to be an ass, but this is all the help I can give for now: I searched for 'omnibook 4150 alsa' in google. Look at the first hit, and try that. Consider reporting the results here. Koen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

ALSA help!

2005-05-31 Thread Douglas
I am runnung debian sarge on a really old HP OmniBook 4150. soundcard is NeoMagic 256 lsmod yields: snd_seq_dummy 2692 0 snd_seq48368 1 snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_device 7116 2 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss48288 0 snd_mixer_oss 17472 1 s