Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org>]

For problems with ALSA, I'd try this:

- Install XMMS, and use it to play some music through OSS.
- If that works, the problem lays in ALSA... make sure it's configured
  to use OSS, make sure the mixer settings are correct... and that it
  doesn't complain about not having access to /dev/dsp.

If you're using KDE, go into the Sound System settings, and lower
"Autosuspend if idle for:" to 2 seconds or so.  This will release the
DSP when none of the KDE apps have made any noice for 2 seconds.  Makes
it a lot easier to use players like XMMS that want to access /dev/dsp
directly (and fail because ARTS is keeping it locked).

Alain


On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:39:50AM +0100, Ole Tange wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> 
> > I am pretty happy to be hearing this. Last time I tried to get ALSA
> > working on my Gentoo box (Gentoo 1.1, Athlon 2000+, nForce board) it
> > took me 3 days of recompiling and ripping out my hair before I finally
> > gave up.
> >
> > Has anything drastic changed or am I just the dumbest person on earth?
> > My buddy could never get it working either... (that was with gentoo 1.1,
> > an Athlon 1900+ and an nForce board).
> 
> I was in the same situation. It seemed I just had to un-mute the soundcard
> with the mixer. I hope that Gentoo in the future will do the
> automatically: It is really stupid if people give up using ALSA simply
> because they do not know they have to mess with the mixer.
> 
> 
> /Ole
> -- 
> http://ole.tange.dk

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