On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:58:33PM +0100, Tim Orford wrote: > i'm assuming you mean the alsa init script. > did you look in the logs (eg /var/log/syslog) for why it failed? mmm... no. > maybe you could tell us what distro and software versions you are Debian [unstable] Package: alsa [alsa-base 0.9.6-5 ] Package: jackd Versions: 0.75.0-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status) > lspci -v 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 96, IRQ 5 I/O ports at 1480 [size=64] [this Montego soundcard doesn't work under my Debian box] 00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 1 (rev 02) Subsystem: Voyetra Technologies Montego Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] I/O ports at 14f8 [size=8] I/O ports at 14f0 [size=8] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 > lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted 3c59x 27600 1 lp 6432 0 (autoclean) snd-seq-midi 4064 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 29632 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3296 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 36816 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 39556 0 snd-mixer-oss 13592 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-ens1370 8580 0 snd-pcm 60804 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1370] snd-timer 14468 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-page-alloc 6292 0 [snd-ens1370 snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 13408 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1370] snd-seq-device 4288 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ak4531-codec 4888 0 [snd-ens1370] snd 28964 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1370 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ak4531-codec] soundcore 3844 8 [snd] > service alsa status > (or whatever it is on your distro) [I don't know how to do that, my init script say that. In fact is the first time I'm trying to use alsa] Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa {start|stop|restart|reload|force-stop|force-restart|force-reload} > cat /var/log/syslog | grep -i alsa > (for the last boot) # cat /var/log/syslog |grep -i alsa # [nothing, except grep -i alsa /var/log/boot] /var/log/boot:Tue Oct 21 10:03:21 2003: Starting ALSA (version 0.9.6): ens1370. /var/log/boot:Tue Oct 21 10:03:24 2003: Restoring ALSA mixer settings... failed /var/log/boot.0:Thu Oct 16 14:24:13 2003: Starting ALSA (version 0.9.6): warning, no drivers defined in /etc/modules.conf failed But I have this lines in /etc/modules.conf ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1370 # module options should go here # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > also read the documentation for your card on > http://www.alsa-project.org I readed yet > and the quicktoots: > http://www.djcj.org/LAU/quicktoots/ I'm reading now ;-) > the archives for the alsa-user list might also be instructive... Thanks a lot for your help Tim. Felix -- F?lix Cuello felix@xxxxxxxxxx -- Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.