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 4.54) id 1FDZvH-0002yd-Bm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:23:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1R4M6bS011044; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:22:06 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1R4HgL3000170 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:17:43 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t4so522785wxc for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:17:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NvCVolI5iaCHo4/27hwau6UMICSgz2G0FTH723caFJaK3iIwWFjK6zNJ/2OWALvEmT096CF7NC8H8jLI5pz4NL2kMT1GRN9YSyIgjLKxGyyM+20BK2GuUXJvjpDABhM82GOUwXw/V+EioRjpWz2MCHpypUux+H+wtunKdqiWUnE= Received: by 10.70.43.2 with SMTP id q2mr3152469wxq; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:17:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.55.18 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:17:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:47:42 +0630 From: "Ducky Z." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound In-Reply-To: <200602260841.19720.bss03@volumehost.net> 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 References: <200602260841.19720.bss03@volumehost.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1R4HgL3000170 X-Archives-Salt: f7d06727-441e-4eb6-ae0e-92441929731f X-Archives-Hash: aeacb1e40697032e591d0eb2644a070e Hello, On 2/26/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2006 02:20, "Ducky Z." > wrote about '[gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still > no sound': > > Hello, > > > > The sound card works fine with Ubuntu in my other partition. I've > > followed Gentoo's Alsa Guide and currently with kernel modules. But no > > sound comes out when I play music or any other things. > > Are use using alsa provided by the kernel, or the kernel modules provided > by alsa-driver? What version of either the kernel or alsa-driver? What > version of alsa-lib? > I'm using the modules provided by the kernel, which is 2.6.15. alsa-lib is 1.0.10. > Can you play wav files through aplay? There should be some samples > in /usr/share/sounds if you don't have other .wav files. When I aplay a file, it shows: ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:900:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:831:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave aplay: main:544: audio open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device > In addition to being unmuted are the outputs actually turned up? Output means? > You appear to have the right modules loaded, but those dmesg errors are > likely because the userland is having problems talking to the kernel. Is there any workaround? > > My 'uname -a': > > Linux rolling-machine 2.6.15-nitro3 #3 PREEMPT Sun Feb 26 13:23:00 MMT > > 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel > > GNU/Linux > > What's -nitro? Is that your own kernel version string or is that like > ck-sources? It's nitro-sources. I've used gentoo-sources, and I'm now trying nitro-sources. Thanks a lot. DZ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list