It's not all obout ALSA drivers, but they are important part of this story. So forgive me this long text, but I don't know what else I can do. 1. Sound plays only when aRts sound serwer is running, so when I try to run program using directly OSS or ALSA it shows error. Here is example: when I run OGLE DVD player it says that it can't open /dev/dsp. But when I run OGLE with "artsdsp ogle" it works correctly. I've read that it's better to play DVD's without aRts sound serwe, because it's better for DVD performance. Another example: I run sndconfig, it detects my Sound Blaster 16 ISA PnP, but when I press "OK" to play wav file it shows error: can't open /dev/audio. No matter if aRts sound serwer is running or not, effect is the same. 2. But even aRts sound serwer not always works perfectly. One time it works perfectly, but another time there is no sound (but there is no error, just only no sound). I don't why. 3. I've checked (in that time that aRts works fine) that when I choose OSS audio output I can hear sound, but when I choose ALSA output, I can't hear anything - but there isn't any errors. 4. So I checked that I have only /dev/sound (I think that it has a connection with DevFS), but no /dev/audio, bo /dev/dsp etc. 5. Now I've found in some ALSA sources in directory with kernel sources (I've downloaded (from Cooker) RPM package with 2.4.13 kernele sources some time ago). I've compiled and installed it - as it's described in ALSA README and INSTALL docs. But what I got: 1.) I ran './configure' script., with --with-isapnp=yes switch. 2.) I did 'make install'. 3.) Next I typed ./snddevices script to create new sound devices in /dev directory. But I didn't notice info, that: "Skip this step, if you have a kernel with the DEVFS support" Maybe here I made errror, because script made sound devices in /dev directory, but I have a kernel with the DevFS support. So maybe changes made by ./snddevices script shuld be deleted? 5) I edited my /etc/modules.conf:" # ISA PnP config options isapnp isapnp_reserve_irq=5 # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sb16 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss"
and devfsd.conf: "LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660 REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660". And results are: - script "alsasound stat" shows: "ALSA sound driver loaded"; - amixer shows, that there is no "ALSA driver installed on this system" - sndconfig, while trying to play wav file shows: "modprobe error. The following error occured running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/../../drivers/sound/sb.o.gz init_module: No such device, /lib/modules/../../drivers/sound/sb.o.gz insmod /lib/modules/../../drivers/sound/sb.o.gz failed /lib/modules/../../drivers/sound/sb.o.gz insmod sound slot 0 failed" I've checked that this :/lib/module... etc directory exists," So I don't know what can I do now? Did I make error running ./snddevices script although I've DevFS installed. And there is no sound now, even through aRts in KDE. ;-( P.S. I hope that I will be enough patient to properly configure Linux and abandon Bill G. Windows. Regards -- LeHardi Jarek Kus _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
