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Hi, |
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Reading the archives, I noticed there's been a looooooooong thread on |
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ALSA trouble, so I hesitate to post a similar problem, but following |
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the relevant steps outlined in that thread so far hasn't seemed to |
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help my own problem with ALSA. |
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I've been trying to get ALSA working with my Nvidia nForce2 AC97 |
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onboard sound card, but without much luck. I've been following the |
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guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml and I think I've |
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got all the steps done, but when I run alsaconf it goes through all |
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the steps till it gets to the "ALSA configurator". When I press OK |
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here, I get: |
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Running modules-update... |
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Loading driver... |
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* Loading ALSA modules ... |
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* Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] |
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* Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] |
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* Loading: snd-seq ... [ ok ] |
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* ERROR: Failed to load necessary drivers [ ok ] |
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* Restoring Mixer Levels ... |
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* No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ ok ] |
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Setting default volumes... |
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Saving the mixer setup used for this in /etc/asound.state. |
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/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found... |
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and then: |
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Now ALSA is ready to use. |
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For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer. |
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Have a lot of fun! |
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and then no sound. If I open, for example, xmms and try to get it to |
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use alsa output, I get an error message. It's not that the sound is |
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muted; it says "Failed to open audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output |
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plugin". |
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Here's some info about my system: |
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GentooBoxGuy ~ # uname -a |
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Linux GentooBoxGuy 2.6.12.5 #1 SMP Sat Nov 5 07:25:03 UTC 2005 i686 |
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AMD Duron(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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GentooBoxGuy ~ # ls -al /usr/src |
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total 12 |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 5 07:02 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 8 17:14 .. |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 5 02:50 .keep |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 5 07:02 linux -> linux-2.6.12.5 |
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drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Nov 13 22:01 linux-2.6.12.5 |
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GentooBoxGuy ~ # lspci | grep audio |
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0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 |
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AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) |
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for which the ALSA soundcard matrix says intel8x0 is the appropriate driver. |
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Here's lsmod | grep snd: |
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snd_seq 34192 0 |
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snd_seq_device 4876 1 snd_seq |
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snd_pcm_oss 37184 0 |
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snd_mixer_oss 12992 1 snd_pcm_oss |
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snd_intel8x0 21664 0 |
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snd_ac97_codec 52440 1 snd_intel8x0 |
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snd_pcm 53572 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec |
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snd_timer 15972 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm |
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snd 32004 8 |
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snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer |
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snd_page_alloc 5604 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm |
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GentooBoxGuy ~ # cat /etc/modules.d/alsa |
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# Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. |
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# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v |
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1.4 2004/11/16 01:31:22 eradicator Exp $ |
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# ALSA portion |
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# OSS/Free portion |
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## |
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## IMPORTANT: |
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## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) |
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## and then run `update-modules' command. |
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## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. |
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## |
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## ALSA portion |
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## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 |
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## OSS/Free portion |
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## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 |
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## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 |
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## |
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# OSS/Free portion - card #1 |
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## OSS/Free portion - card #2 |
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## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss |
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## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss |
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## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss |
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alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss |
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alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss |
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alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss |
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# Set this to the correct number of cards. |
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# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- |
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# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.9a --- |
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alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 |
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alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 |
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# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- |
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/proc/asound/cards has nothing in it. |
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I've tried my best to resolve this on my own, including Googling, |
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posting on the Gentoo forums, and reading the long thread about ALSA |
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which recently closed, but I'm still a bit of a newbie to Linux, so I |
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may be missing something obvious. Thanks in advance for any help or |
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advice. |
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PT |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~pthomson/ |
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