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On Mon, 21 May 2001 01:26:10 +0200 AGottinger@... (Achim Gottinger)
wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> > 
> > I sent this out to other groups as well.  I'm not sure it's a gentoo
> > problem, but maybe someone here will know what to do.
> > 
> > I'm still tinkering around with my gentoo distro.  I can't seem to get
> > sound or cd player to work, yet.
> > 
> > This is on a 2.4.4-ac9 kernel.  I don't really think the kernel is a
> > problem.  I have the same kernel module options as on Sybil Caldera)
> > or Manrake 8.0, and both sound and cdplayer work.
> > 
> > The default module entries are
> > 
> > esssolo1
> > usb-uhci
> > tulip
> > agpgart
> > parport_lowlevel
> > ide-scsi
> > 
> > Sound is esssolo1.  I have sound=m and esssolo1=m selected for kernel
> > build.  I get the same messages during boot of any of the
distributions,
> > but xfce doesn't produce sounds on gentoo.
> > 

> > For the ide-scsi stull, this is what I get.  I have the same kernel
> entries
> > as for Sybil.  cdrecord --scanbus runs normally, just like on Sybil.
> > 
> > 2001-05-19 14:43:06.511972500 <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0,
> channel
> > 0, i
> > d 0, lun 0
> > 2001-05-19 14:43:06.511990500 <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0,
> channel
> > 0, i
> > d 1, lun 0
> > 2001-05-19 14:43:06.513008500 <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer
> cd/rw
> > xa/f
> > orm2 cdda tray
> > 2001-05-19 14:43:06.513019500 <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> > 2001-05-19 14:43:06.514045500 <4>sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/44x cd/rw
> > xa/form2 cdd
> > a tray
> > 2001-05-19 14:43:06.535581500 <7>VFS: Disk change detected on device
> > sr(11,0)
> > 2001-05-19 14:43:06.556923500 <4> I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0
> > 
> > Any suggestions where I might look?
> > 
> 
> We use alsa as default for sound on gentoo and using oss/light (the
> modules included in the kernel)
> is not tested very well at the moment.
> A few things u night check:
> 
> Does the kdemixer work?
> Install the media-libs/sox packket and try to play a soundfile with the
> "play" utility. If that does not work
> install dev-utils/strace and run 
> strace play [a sound file] > logfile
> please post this logfile to the list, that should help us find the
> problem.
> 

ok, making progress.  

1. In order to install sox (pkg doesn't have the dependancy), I had to
install sys-kernel/linux-extras.  Once linux-extras was installed, sounds
started working.

What's in the extras - obviously some sort of an .so library that is needed
for sound to work.  Could you explain what this is?  Apparently this stuff
is automagically in other distros.

2.  Still can't get the cdplayer to work.  On 2.4.4 kernels, the cdroms are
/dev/srn - in my case 0&1, but the cdplayer gets "no disk found" and does
not play.

Any clues.


-- 
Collins Richey
Denver area
gentoo system