Alsa 0.5.10 w/ Debian - was: Re: not working yet

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Not sure what impact the alsa debian packages would have, since I've never
used them.  You can use dpkg to check for installed packages.  The best
command to use in this particular case, in my opinion, is:

dpkg --get-selections |grep -i alsa

This is a bit of a funny way to do it, but it allows you to be non-specific
with package names.

I think I've found your problem, however.  It is in /etc/modutils/alsa
which is read into /etc/modules.conf when you do an update-modules.  There
are two lines in there that read:

alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss

You need to remove the 1 from both these lines, ie, so it says
snd-pcm-oss.  There is also a line a bit further down that says:

options snd-card-sbawe snd_index=1 snd_id=CARD_1 snd_port=0x220 snd_mpu_port=0x300 snd_awe_port=-1 snd_irq=5 snd_dma8=1 snd_dma16=5 snd_mic_agc=0

snd_index needs to be 0 not 1.  Also, yours has snd_id set to  CARD_1 and
mine is set to "SB16" (yes, in quotes), but I don't think this will matter
at all.

So go edit /etc/modutils/alsa to fix these, then run update-modules and
that should do the trick.  I think.

Geoff.



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