Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound

["Ducky Z." <duckyhatezchat@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I've removed kernel support for ALSA and using alsa-driver instead.
Still no luck and same error. And I still don't have /etc/asound.conf
or ~/.asoundrc. Is that a problem?

Thanks.

On 2/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:46, Zac Slade <krakrjak@volumehost.net> wrote
> about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no
> sound':
> > On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:17, Ducky Z. wrote:
> > > I'm using the modules provided by the kernel, which is 2.6.15.
> > > alsa-lib is 1.0.10.
> >
> > This should be fine.
>
> Hrm, is alsa-lib 1.0 backwards compatible to 0.9?  'Cause the kernel
> shipped with 0.9 support for a while and my kernel now has to have an
> option to provide the 0.9 abi/api.
>
> You could try either upgrading your kernel or downgrading your alsa-lib.
> Or, you could abandon the kernel-provide modules and use alsa-drivers.
>
> > > 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
> >
> > Hrm....  Is this being done as root?  I think your /etc/asound.conf file
> > might need some help.  I'm not sure here, but it might not be able to
> > play because the wrong information is in the asound.conf file.
>
> Yeah, try as root and if that works, check permissions on stuff
> in /dev/sound.
>
> If you can get the 1.0 alsa-lib to work with your kernel, you can probably
> blow away your asound.conf file anyway.  The move to 1.0 made dmix
> automatic for devices that don't do hw mixing.
>
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