Hey all, I'm sort of a Linux newbie. I've been using Linux pretty much exclusively for a little over a month. I've used and developed on Unix for several years, so much of it is familiar to me. Anyway, I got ALSA up and running fine on my desktop machine, but am having problems with my laptop. I searched the web for days and can't seem to find consistent information, so I wonder if you guys could help. My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad T20 with a "Cirrus Logic CS-4614/22/24 CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator" soundcard. I'm running a fairly "vanilla" installation of RedHat 8.0, meaning I didn't reconfigure the kernel or anything like that. The kernel version is 2.4.18-14. The OSS driver for cs46xx was installed, and I believe the sound test worked during installation. But since then, audio has not worked at all. XMMS will play,and you can see the meters popping, but no sound comes out of the speakers or headphones. I downloaded the ALSA 0.9.1 tarballs and ran through the installations. The first problem I ran into was unresolved symbols due to symbol versioning in the kernel. I fixed that by adding the following to the alsa-driver Makefile: ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS CPPFLAGS += -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/modversions.h endif So, I did a make clean, reran the ./configure, make, make install, ./snddevices, and installed alsa-lib and alsa-util. At some point I had to rmmod the cs46xx OSS driver because it complained that it was in use. I also chmod'ed the /dev files as the doc suggested. I used gnome-alsamixer to unmute the channels and set levels. At first alsaplayer would play a file (.wav or .mp3) and the meters would show activity, but no sound would be present. Now, when I try to run alsaplayer, play, or xmms I get an error message that says "Cannot open device: /dev/dsp". So has anyone gotten ALSA 0.9.1 to work on this kernel? Should I use a different ALSA package or a different kernel? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Greg Reddin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
