Thanks to all who responded. > > David Cornette wrote: > > I hope someone can help me. I have a Red Hat 8.0 system with a > > SoundBlaster PCI 128. I haven't been able to get sound to work at all. > > Since the oss drivers didn't work (sox would hang trying to open the > > device), I decided to try ALSA. When I tried to load the module, modprobe > > segfaulted. I am using kernel-2.4.18-26.8.0 from Red Hat, and alsa > > 0.9.1-fr1 from freshrpms.net. If anyone has any ideas on what I can do to > > get sound to work, please let me know. > > I had the same problem. Solved it by downloading 0.9.0rc6 (note: RC6!), > compiling and installing. That version works great. I've not tried newer > versions, but the latest and greatest might, or might work. But, > 0.9.0rc6 does work.
I downloaded the source rpms for 0.9.1 from freshrpms.net and rebuilt them. I installed the new ones, and they worked. I don't know what was different about my newly built version from the ones built with the same source rpm. I will inform Matthias Saou at freshrpms that there is a problem with the rpm. Now everything works fine, with two exceptions. First, alsamixer doesn't display properly on a virtual terminal, although it does work fine in an xterm. I don't know if it is related to Red Hat's utf8 problem. Other curses programs have problems with that. The other problem is that after a reboot, the modules aren't loaded until X is started. I guess when esd starts they are loaded, but when I use cdp or aplay they don't get loaded. I'm not sure what the right way to do this is. I guess Red Hat would probably say "Start X.", but that doesn't seem right. I created a file /etc/rc.modules, which the RH init scripts run. I see references to an "alsasound" init script, but it seems to no longer be distributed. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
