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

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Geoff and Frankie and other Alsa experts,

	Thanks Geoff for the suggestions you made (included below). On bootup I don't get any error messages now... no messages of any kind in fact, but the sound card shows up as correctly initialized and modules loaded in /proc/modules, /proc/interrupts and /proc/dma. I think from those /proc entries that all is loaded properly. However I stil can't get any sound to come from the speakers.
	I'm thinking that the channels are all muted (sys so in the alsa docs) be default. I found tht atthe aumix mixer that I used to use, no longer works withthe newer versions of alsa. The amixer from the alsa utils package doesn't seem to cooperate, or I'm just too dumb to understand something in the man pages. What mixer(s) are you folks using? I'm open for any suggestions at this point.

	The only sound I got fromthe the speakers is a "click" when rebooting the system. I assume that happens when the alsa driver gets unloaded?

	Thanks again for all your help and time.

	--terry

You wrote:

-=> 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.
-=>
-=>
-=>
-=> --
-=> Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
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		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
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