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Good news. Write back if you need anything. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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On 10/13/05, Rob <europa100@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> >On 10/12/05, Rob <europa100@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> >>Hi all, |
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> >>I have done the alsa configuration before, so I am kind of at a loss as |
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> >>to why nothing is working. I believe that I followed the Gentoo Linux |
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> >>Alsa Guide to the letter, but it was confusing. I had difficulty |
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> >>figuring out which parts of the text applied to different ways of |
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> >>configuring Alsa. For example, the use of modules vs. a compiled in |
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> >>kernel Alsa. Also, when is the alsa-driver needed for operation? It |
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> >>wouldn't compile when I tried it. |
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> >> |
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> >>I am using modules. Now, alsaconf failed when I tried it. It wrote |
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> >>error messages to modules.d/alsa. I seem to remember the error entries |
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> >>had a "snd-***" in them. But a manually edited modules.d/alsa and then |
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> >>a modules-update allowed all the needed modules to be loaded during bootup. |
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> >> |
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> >>So lsmod shows all the needed modules loaded, alsamixer is fully unmuted |
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> >>and the volumes turned up, yet no sound. I am certain that I have the |
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> >>right modules for my soundcard as revealed by pciutils. |
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> >> |
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> >>Is there any other documentation for Alsa? Man alsa or alsasound |
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> >>revealed nothing as well as apropos alsa. |
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> >> |
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> >>Thanks, Rob. |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >There's a lot of documentation at the Alsa site. |
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> >That said, let's look around. Please post back the output of |
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> >lspci |
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> >lsmod |
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> >cat /proc/asound/cards |
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> > |
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> >Remove any /etc/asound.state file, run alsamixer again, and then run |
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> >alsactl store |
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> >Locate a wave file and try playing that from the command line. What happens |
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> >aplay file.wav |
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> >- Mark |
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> I am sorry. There was no error in my configuration. Instead the error |
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> was in how I tested the setup. I gave the command cat /dev/random > |
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> /dev/dsp, haha. It should have been /dev/urandom. I just missed the "u'. |
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> Still, I don't know why alsaconf didn't work. Now that I have sound |
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> working, I am loath to tweek with anything. |
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> Thanks though for the support! |
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> Sincerely, Rob. |
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