From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EbYd4-00084k-Lb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:19:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAE7IjoY001796; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:18:46 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAE7Dao2008724 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:13:41 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.198]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbYWy-0004dU-6M for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:13:32 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i11so584301wra for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:13:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Cvtdp7ZmcFtrBr+z9ehheMs42cux3Arc972jgCNQbzaCmyMFd4wHK+AiRNa0O+dpX1vl4wnK8UfKN17aO07eERItE8AJ+D/gkBksVtlzpHbl+xZYNZJ0ryuDoLzlG+fuzXnRxmSUQXSvzwaLofuXs/xXI9SgdfaXyoJKh9tdPdA= Received: by 10.64.232.14 with SMTP id e14mr5319809qbh; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.249.11 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:13:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:13:29 -0800 From: Phil Thomson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] yet more ALSA trouble Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jAE7Dao2008724 X-Archives-Salt: 31e06df7-4389-460c-9547-fb06a9e67248 X-Archives-Hash: 1630ccd3b088301615a8b99a5e87b249 Hi, Reading the archives, I noticed there's been a looooooooong thread on ALSA trouble, so I hesitate to post a similar problem, but following the relevant steps outlined in that thread so far hasn't seemed to help my own problem with ALSA. I've been trying to get ALSA working with my Nvidia nForce2 AC97 onboard sound card, but without much luck. I've been following the guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml and I think I've got all the steps done, but when I run alsaconf it goes through all the steps till it gets to the "ALSA configurator". When I press OK here, I get: Running modules-update... Loading driver... * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-seq ... [ ok ] * ERROR: Failed to load necessary drivers [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ ok ] Setting default volumes... Saving the mixer setup used for this in /etc/asound.state. /usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found... and then: Now ALSA is ready to use. For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer. Have a lot of fun! and then no sound. If I open, for example, xmms and try to get it to use alsa output, I get an error message. It's not that the sound is muted; it says "Failed to open audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin". Here's some info about my system: GentooBoxGuy ~ # uname -a Linux GentooBoxGuy 2.6.12.5 #1 SMP Sat Nov 5 07:25:03 UTC 2005 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux GentooBoxGuy ~ # ls -al /usr/src total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 5 07:02 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 8 17:14 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 5 02:50 .keep lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 5 07:02 linux -> linux-2.6.12.5 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Nov 13 22:01 linux-2.6.12.5 GentooBoxGuy ~ # lspci | grep audio 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) for which the ALSA soundcard matrix says intel8x0 is the appropriate driver. Here's lsmod | grep snd: snd_seq 34192 0 snd_seq_device 4876 1 snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 37184 0 snd_mixer_oss 12992 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_intel8x0 21664 0 snd_ac97_codec 52440 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 53572 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 15972 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 32004 8 snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 5604 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm GentooBoxGuy ~ # cat /etc/modules.d/alsa # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.4 2004/11/16 01:31:22 eradicator Exp $ # ALSA portion # OSS/Free portion ## ## IMPORTANT: ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) ## and then run `update-modules' command. ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. ## ## ALSA portion ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 ## OSS/Free portion ## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## # OSS/Free portion - card #1 ## OSS/Free portion - card #2 ## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss ## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss ## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.9a --- alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- /proc/asound/cards has nothing in it. I've tried my best to resolve this on my own, including Googling, posting on the Gentoo forums, and reading the long thread about ALSA which recently closed, but I'm still a bit of a newbie to Linux, so I may be missing something obvious. Thanks in advance for any help or advice. PT -- Phil Thomson, BFA, MFA 010100000110100001101001011011000010000001010100011010000110111101101101011100110110111101101110 hellomynameisphil@gmail.com http://www.sfu.ca/~pthomson/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list