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From: Chuanwen Wu <wcw8410@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:42:46
Message-Id: 7797aa370710130723s7a14dc4agd53885ea6cd9bb9e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem by Hans-Werner Hilse
1 Thank you for your help!
2 2007/10/12, Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>:
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:50:16 +0800
6 > "Chuanwen Wu" <wcw8410@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >
8 > > > No, /dev/dsp is OSS stuff. Aplay shouldn't use that. But it makes me
9 > > > wonder whether snd_pcm_oss is loaded?
10 > > Yes,have loaded it:
11 > > $ lsmod | grep snd_pcm_oss
12 > > snd_pcm_oss 39648 0
13 > > snd_mixer_oss 14912 1 snd_pcm_oss
14 > > snd_pcm 73800 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
15 > > snd 50216 6
16 > > snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
17 >
18 > Odd. /dev/dsp should be present under these circumstances. But the
19 > other things below explain that:
20 >
21 > > I am sure I have re-run alsaconf and both the /etc/asound.state and
22 > > /var/lib/alsa/asound.state 's content are:
23 > > # cat /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
24 > > state.Intel {
25 > > control {
26 > > }
27 > > }
28 >
29 > Hm, so it seems there were problems with the mixer at that stage, too.
30 > That file should contain settings for the various controls.
31 >
32 > > $ cat /proc/asound/cards
33 > > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
34 > > HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 21
35 >
36 > So the kernel is interfacing it correctly, but only in parts:
37 >
38 > > $ cat /proc/asound/devices
39 > > 0: [ 0] : control
40 > > 1: : sequencer
41 > > 33: : timer
42 > >
43 > > Here is the output of strace aplay and I hope it dose not bother you
44 > > and I also attach it as a annex.
45 > > [...]
46 > > open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
47 > > or directory)
48 >
49 > The playback and capture devices are completely missing, and udev
50 > therefore didn't create /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p (PCM, card 0, device 0,
51 > playback channel). The only explanation I can suggest is
52 > broken/incomplete kernel/alsa-drivers support for your device. Does the
53 > machine have BIOS settings for sound? What about the audio related
54 > kernel log output?
55 >
56 Yes,both my Windows XP and another linux os Redflag have sound. Is
57 there anyway that I can use the Redflag's modules to driver my
58 gentoo?
59
60 Where can I get the audio related kernel log output?
61
62 > In any case, you should probably use the separate alsa-driver from
63 > portage, preferably the newest (unstable in portage) version. There
64 > were many changes (some of them adding support for more devices for the
65 > hda driver) that are not yet in the kernel ALSA tree.
66 >
67 I have tried the version (~)1.0.15_rc2,which I heard from someone in
68 some webpages that it could drive my hda sound card,but it still can't
69 in my machine.
70
71 And the one of version 9999, I think I can never emerge it:
72 >>> Emerging (1 of 2) media-sound/alsa-headers-9999 to /
73 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
74 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
75 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
76 >>> Unpacking source...
77 * hg clone http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel ...
78 real URL is http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/
79 requesting all changes
80 adding changesets
81
82 The network is so slow and this status has already keep couples of hours.
83
84
85 > -hwh
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89 >
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