Hi, Thanks for taking the time and looking into this for me. On 17/06/07, Benno Schulenberg <alsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've now read the start of this thread, and do not understand why > you are building alsa from source. Feisty uses alsa-1.0.13, so if > Edgy worked for you with that version of alsa, Feisty should work > out of the box. It didn't work out of the box when I upgraded from Edgy to Feisty, which is why I started down this whole track in the first place. > So, reinstall your linux-image-... package; then also reinstall > linux-sound-base, alsa-base, and alsa-utils. If simply reinstalling > them does not have the desired effect, then first purge those last > three packages, then reinstall them. Done. The desired effect is, of course, that I am then able to switch my sound system (using the KDE System Settings controls) from OSS to ALSA and then get a successful test sound out of the machine. This has still not happened. At this point, when I tell KDE to start using ALSA, it shows me the "Starting sound system" progress bar, which does not ever reach completion, but simply loops repeatedly from 0 to 90 in 5% increments, each time round incrementing half as fast as the time before. Needless to say, I have rebooted. I am reluctant to reboot in the middle bit, i.e. between the purge and the reinstall, since purging the alsa packages also removes "ubuntu-minimal" which looks like it might be essential for the system to boot up at all. > > and 'aplay -l' then gives me a segmentation fault. > As long as aplay segfaults, you know you haven't done the reinstall > correctly yet. aplay, alsamixer etc worked (but gave me OSS warnings) before I tried to alter the settings in the KDE menu. Once the progress bar has started endlessly looping (or if I cancel it), then I get the segfaults. I presume I should not use the KDE menu? If so, then the system seems to be stuck using OSS. (I have tried removing OSS but have not succeeded yet.) Also, running 'alsaconf' - after or before using the KDE menu - results in it finding no supported PnP or PCI cards, and then complaining about missing modules: modinfo: could not find module snd modinfo: could not find module snd modinfo: could not find module snd modinfo: could not find module snd-opl3sa2 modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4236 modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4232 modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4231 modinfo: could not find module snd-es18xx modinfo: could not find module snd-es1688 modinfo: could not find module snd-sb16 modinfo: could not find module snd-sb8 Have I purged too much? Still feeling a bit clueless here... sorry! Thanks again for your help. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
