| Stephen Gran on 25 Jul 2005 14:35:47 -0000 |
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:29:19AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:45:23AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > That means you have an alsa module loaded (snd-foo). Try alsaconf > > if it doesn't look right. My first guess, though, if you have a > > /proc/asound (with a reasonable modules and devices in it) and no > > sound, is that you're not in group audio. > > I am in group audio, Debian did that for me (remarkably). > Unfortunately, I don't see any alsa stuff installed: should I? > > jeff@astra:~ $ dpkg -l | grep alsa > jeff@astra:~ $ > > I could install alsa-base, for example, but it'd be a bit blind on my > part. > > This is the relevant stuff from /proc/modules, all there by virtue of > Debian's installation: > > jeff@astra:~ $ egrep -i '(snd|sound)' /proc/modules > snd_via82xx 29540 0 - Live 0xf8f9b000 > snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_via82xx, Live 0xf8920000 > sound 84300 2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401, Live 0xf8f2d000 > snd_ens1371 24932 0 - Live 0xf8987000 > snd_rawmidi 25124 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ens1371, Live 0xf896b000 > snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi, Live 0xf895e000 > snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ens1371, Live 0xf89a5000 > snd_page_alloc 11752 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm, Live 0xf8903000 > snd_timer 25732 1 snd_pcm, Live 0xf8907000 > snd_ac97_codec 69988 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ens1371, Live 0xf8974000 > snd 57156 8 snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec, Live 0xf894f000 > soundcore 10336 5 es1371,via82cxxx_audio,sound,snd, Live 0xf88eb000 > gameport 4704 3 snd_via82xx,es1371,snd_ens1371, Live 0xf88f5000 > jeff@astra:~ $ > > I have two sound cards, one PCI, one on the MB. I'd like to use the > PCI one. Here's some lspci output: > > 0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) > 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) > > Any thoughts? I see modules loaded are for the via sound card, and presumably that's the onboard one. Do you get sound if you plug speakers into that port? But I also see some that look like they are for the Ensoniq. Hmmm. I would suggest taking the plunge, and just install alsa. This means installing alsa-base, -utils, and probably -oss for good measure. -utils comes with a mixer utility (alsamixer) so you can play with volume levels to see why you're not getting sound. You'll probably also need the various alsa compatible sound daemon libraries, if you use one (libesd-alsa0 for esound, arts is I think already linked to libasound, and then libsdl-alsa for sdl apps). I am not sure how you go about setting up multiple sound cards to work concurrently with alsa, but you can prevent the via one from being loaded by putting the module names in a file under /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/ (I think - double check the docs for hotplug). This is still, as you can probably tell, a somewhat murky subject for me. I can probably scrape a few more things out of my brain if the above doesn't help. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | A pipe gives a wise man time to think | | steve@lobefin.net | and a fool something to stick in his | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | mouth. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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