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From: "Sören Weber" <soesoe@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Problems with ALSA (or only ScummVM?)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:49:27
Message-Id: 42D43962.7010203@arcor.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Problems with ALSA (or only ScummVM?) by Mitko Moshev
1 Hi Mitko, thanks for your answer.
2
3 >1) are you using esd or arts? this may lock the device on older versions
4 >
5 >
6 I tested it a few hours ago because I thought the same way. But I don't
7 have esd, arts, jack or sth like this running on my box..
8
9 >2) try updating alsa to the latest version, it may help
10 >
11 >
12 I already reached the unstable branch ;o)
13
14 >3) try setting the SDL_AUDIODRIVER enviroment variable to alsa
15 >
16 >
17 Done but same problem. Does this overrun the preferences of ScummVM?
18
19 >4) update your sdl
20 >
21 >
22 Already done.
23
24 >5) and most importantly - can anything else use alsa? I mean alone, not
25 >if you can have two xmmses running, just if you can output sound through
26 >alsa?
27 >
28 >
29 Yes, any other application can use ALSA without any problems.
30
31 Today I found these notifications with dmesg:
32 ALSA
33 /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.8/work/alsa-driver-1.0.8/alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1907:
34 AC'97 1 does not respond - RESET
35 ALSA
36 /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.8/work/alsa-driver-1.0.8/alsa-kernel/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:1916:
37 AC'97 1 access is not valid [0x0], removing mixer.
38 ALSA
39 /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.8/work/alsa-driver-1.0.8/alsa-kernel/pci/trident/trident_main.c:2991:
40 SI7018: the secondary codec - invalid access
41
42 I had them, too, while the drivers where compiled into the kernel.
43 Any ideas?
44
45 Last but not least I found many people in the internet having many
46 different (unusual) problems with AC97. So maybe there's a problem with
47 the driver of it. Or maybe I have to do a little tuning? I already saw
48 some pages for the ~/.asoundrc. Maybe a problem concerning the buffer?
49
50 Thanks for your help!
51 Sören
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