On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:13, tim@glastonburymusic wrote: > I'm having trouble with what should be a trivial soundcard config. > Tech Spec: Debian-3.0/Linux-2.2.20 running on a P133 with 48mB RAM > Soundcard: Bluepoint/OPTi82C930 with MAD16 Driver > Problem: communicating with external MIDI device (Roland D10) > [No ALSA] using OSS > basic internal functionality for samples & MIDI is OK http://www.alsa-project.org/ 'Tho, if you add these lines to deb ftp://ftp.unix-ag.org/pub/mirrors/demudi woody demudi deb ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/demudi woody demudi deb ftp://ftp.agnula.org/demudi woody demudi deb http://http.demudi.org woody demudi deb http://http.demudi.org/debian woody local main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.demudi.org/debian woody local main contrib non-free /etc/apt/sources.list ...then type dselect in an xterm, tell it to use ftp as an access method, hit U for update when you close out of the access window, wait for the listings to download and then hit S to select packages ...once in there... type / ...enter alsa {or demudi}, hit enter... then hit \ to repeat the search {until you find the demudi alsa stuff}... dselect will do the setup for you {:} Don't get carried away picking out software ...you will hate yourself for it.} In windowmaker a "setup soundcard" entry pops up in the root menus under admin or somesuch. {Sorry... I'm not root at the moment.} You can probably just select your card and hit enter through the setup. {No... I don't promise. {I do think it will try to install the Demudi kernel} :}}} http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ {see above} > Basically every time I try to load the mpu401 driver I get told "Device or > Resource busy". I've tried using modprobe, modconf and sndconfig, same thing > every time. CDrom audio is also disabled, and I have errors on loading unix > socket drivers (which I don't entirely understand). I've tried every > available I/O & irq combination that doesn't cause conflicts. It is entirely > possible that I'm just using the wrong syntax of course:~) > lsmod lists pcmcia_core, unix, lockd, sunrpc, af_packet, mad16, ad1848, > uart401, sound, soundlow, soundcore & joystick modules. I'm not sure if > there's anything obviously missing or conflicting. modconf {unless that's a laptop {even if it is a laptop}} > Any pointers would be gratefully appreciated. > I guess you'll understand when I say that a functioning soundcard is as > important as video. Music will hopefully be one of the prime uses of my > setup & I'm very interested in stuff like Python OSS, tse3 & stk4 & others > which run happily on my box already. Csound looks interesting too, but I may > need to improve my hardware I've run debian on several {read 6 or 8} systems. Several of them have been very weird. It usually autodetects about everything {Or I make consistently lucky guesses in the module config bit in setup.} Why so many problems? Have you tried running stuff from the console rather than in x? You really could use some more memory. -- Rick Taylor <ricktaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The Dispossessed
