kmd wrote:
> maybe this is a question for alsa, but if you don't mind i rather put my
> problem here as well. i'm in continious trouble with my sound card. i
> spent a lot of money on this rme digi96-8/pad. when i bought the card it
> immediately worked like a charm with mdk 9.2. unbelievable. the trouble
> started with mdk 10.0. i managed to make it work after several days of
> searching. don't ask me how, i woke up, booted and to my surprise it
> worked. never change a winning configuration you would say. indeed.
> today i reenabled the onboard audio chip in the bios, booted windows,
> booted back linux and yes trouble happened. just like the first time of
> troubles, everything seems to be working fine and configured as it
> should be, but i hear *no* sound at all. it's driving me insane. i mean,
> i run xmms, mplayer, aplay.. they all do seem to play sound without any
> error, only i can't hear anything at all. but alsamixer displays a 100%
> volume output (with this card there is only 1 mixer, DAC) and when i
> boot windows i hear sound, so it's not a cable prob. am i missing here
> anything obvious? is there another volume mixer that i should try? i
> remember playing with a console program to set mixer volumes, but can't
> remember which one.
>
> please help.
>
> kmd
>
>
> alsa 1.0.2c
> mandrake 10 official, standard 2.6 kernel
>
> [root@bazz kmd]# aplay -D default /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Logout_new.wav
> Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Logout_new.wav' : Signed 16 bit
> Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo
>
>
> .asoundrc
>
> pcm.!default {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
>
> ctl.!default {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
>
> pcm.rme96 {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
>
> ctl.rme96 {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
>
>
>
> etc/modules.conf
>
> probeall scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> above snd-rme96 snd-pcm-oss
> probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd
> alias eth0 sk98lin
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-rme96
>
> ################# alsa kmd
> ## ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-rme96
> ## module options should go here
>
>
> ## OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-rme96
>
> # card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
>
> lsmod
>
> snd-seq-oss 33568 0
> snd-seq-midi-event 8704 1 snd-seq-oss
> snd-seq 55696 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
> snd-seq-device 9032 2 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq
> snd-pcm-oss 53316 0
> snd-mixer-oss 19008 1 snd-pcm-oss
> snd-rme96 26244 0
> snd-pcm 97440 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-rme96
> snd-page-alloc 12996 1 snd-pcm
> snd-timer 26660 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
> snd 55492 9
> snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-rme96,snd-pcm,snd-timer
>
> soundcore 10560 1 snd
peter Zubaj suggested to uncheck loopback input, but this is not
possible within alsamixer? someone on the RME newsgroup suggested to
install rmedigicontrol and yes. once i disabled loopback input with this
program, i hear sound! great.
thanks for your time
kmd
