Last Wednesday 04 August 2004 16:08, Laura Conrad was like: > Thanks to everyone who wrote with helpful advice. > > I have tried most of the suggestions, and am still getting no sound. Oh dear :( > I tried booting back to 2.4.l8, and it doesn't play sound now > either. I tried removing the alsa apps and going back to oss, > which really used to work. It doesn't now, but it isn't clear > that I really removed all the alsa stuff, although the loaded > modules look like the oss ones to me. This version gives me an > error message when I try to play a MIDI file: > > $ timidity score.midi > Couldn't open output device ALSA drivers are all named snd-[something] - in your case snd-sb[something] look in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-multimedia-686/alsa/ or any of the others, there's a directory for each kernel. > I have some questions, none of which may be relevant, but I really > need sound to work: > > I believe that via82cxxx_audio is the module for the soundcard > that's on the motherboard, which I don't want to use. Why does > it keep loading it, even though I have told the bios to turn it > off? And how do I make it stop loading this module? > > /proc/interrupts reports that both the SB-Live and the onboard > sound are sharing interrupt 9. Is this likely to be causing > problems? This suggests that you haven't actually disabled the onboard via82cxxxx - It shouldn't be a problem if it's really not being used, but then it shouldn't show up in /proc/interrupts either in that case. > Does anyone have any idea what changed between kernel 2.4.18, > when OSS sound worked, and 2.4.25 when it doesn't? I think the OSS modules were removed from the multimedia version of the kernel because they caused too much configuration confusion. They should be there in the other sets of modules. I don't know about 2.6.x kernels. > Is there anything else I should be trying? Checklist: /etc/group - check you are in 'audio' group (may be 'sound' instead) /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer* /dev/cdrom* etc. - check these are set to the correct group also. [5] /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 - check this has the right settings for the soundcard you want to use [4]. ~/.asoundrc - details at [4] again. Make sure the volume is turned up on your mixer and theoretically you should have sound. You may need to log out & back in again before these settings take effect. HTH tim hall Useful links: [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html [1] http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/1.2.0-FAQ [2] http://www.agnula.org/documentation/FAQ/ [3] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/index.html [4] http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ [5] http://kreiger.linuxgods.com/kiki/?linux+sound-permissions [6] http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/index.shtml
