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

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi John and all the Alsa gurus on this list,
John Covici wrote:

-=> Hi.  I think you should not build in the sound support, but leave it
-=> as a module.  You should not have support for any cards in the kernel,
-=> just sound support.  Then compile and see what happens.
	I didn't have any sound cards included, just the sound driver configured into the module. OK, I recompiled withthe driver as a module, but nothing has changed.

-=> Also, be sure that /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm are
-=> directories pointing at /usr/src/linux/include/linux and
-=> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-386 respectively.
	I remember these links in the README in /usr/src/linux a few versions ago, but they are not mentioned in the current README's. Are they really necessary? If so, which way are the links pointing? Is the link in /usr/include to the dir in usr/src/linux/include or vice versa? My system currently has a link from /usr/src/linux/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386, but hte /usr/include directories are separate ie no links to or from the /usr/src/linux directory tree. Since this is not mentioned in the README anymore, have things changed to make the links unnecessary?

	I'm wondering if there is some permission that is set wrong somewhere in my system because I can run the amixer command as "root" with no errors but when run as "terry" the amixer command shows:

	The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
on STDERR.

	The snd-card-sbawe module is definitely loaded.  It shows up in the lsmod output.

	Even unmuting/setting volume the devices as "root" doesn't allow any sound to come fromthe card/speakers. I know the hardware is OK 'cause it works under Win98..

	 I  configured/installed the alsa-driver as "root". Shoule it be done as a normal user? or even can it be?

	Maybe something is wrong in the part of /etc/modules.conf related to the snd-card-sbawe module.  Here's the "alsa" file from the /etc/modutils directory:

alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sbawe
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
options snd-card-sbawe snd_index=0 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

	Still baffled with the new alsa v0.5.10. Thanks again for any help/suggestions anyone can make.
		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
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