[gentoo-server] Sound on a laptop

[gentoo-server] Sound on a laptop

[Collin Starkweather]

Dunno if this is the right forum ... but here goes anyway ....

I've installed Gentoo on a couple of servers so far and decided to make
the leap and put it on my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 4150.  I didn't even
play it safe by making it dual-boot and I've been blown away by how
smoothly everything is going.  Except that I can't seem to get sound to
work.

The culprit seems to be

  freak linux # ls -L -l /dev/dsp*
  ls: /dev/dsp*: No such file or directory

but I don't know what to do about it.

The contents of /proc/pci and lsmod are included below my sig in case
that's helpful.  I used genkernel to configure and build the kernel and,
according to my untrained eye, appropriate modules seem to be loaded.  

Thanks!

-Collin

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freak linux # cat /proc/pci 
PCI devices found:
  ... blah blah blah ...
  Bus  0, device  31, function  5:
    Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 2).
      IRQ 11.
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff].
      I/O at 0xdc80 [0xdcbf].
  ... blah blah blah ...
freak linux # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ohci_hcd               16516  0 
ehci_hcd               21764  0 
intel_agp              15260  1 
agpgart                25896  1 intel_agp
uhci_hcd               27920  0 
snd_intel8x0           28712  0 
snd_ac97_codec         55172  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                80932  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              20228  1 snd_pcm
gameport                3712  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_page_alloc          9476  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         5760  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            19232  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6408  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    44388  7
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
3c59x                  34344  0 
usbcore                86108  5 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
freak linux # 

Re: [gentoo-server] Sound on a laptop

[Matt Steven]

Looks like you are using alsa.  It doesn't make a /dev/dsp by default...

I don't see snd-mixer-oss or snd-pcm-oss in your modules so it looks like you 
don't have the "oss" keyword in your USE settings.  You should add that, 
re-emerge alsa-driver and I think you'll be in good shape for oss emulation 
if that's what you prefer to use.

On the other subject, you're right  this probably isn't the right forum for a 
sound issue.  See the website for a list of other more appropriate lists, or 
forums.gentoo.org.

Good luck,
~Matt

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 04:38 am, Collin Starkweather wrote:
> Dunno if this is the right forum ... but here goes anyway ....
>
> I've installed Gentoo on a couple of servers so far and decided to make
> the leap and put it on my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 4150.  I didn't even
> play it safe by making it dual-boot and I've been blown away by how
> smoothly everything is going.  Except that I can't seem to get sound to
> work.
>
> The culprit seems to be
>
>   freak linux # ls -L -l /dev/dsp*
>   ls: /dev/dsp*: No such file or directory
>
> but I don't know what to do about it.
>
> The contents of /proc/pci and lsmod are included below my sig in case
> that's helpful.  I used genkernel to configure and build the kernel and,
> according to my untrained eye, appropriate modules seem to be loaded.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Collin

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