Hi Scott, Thank you VERY much for your reply. I must say that I am impressed by how much effort you have put into your answer. I will try to do as you have described as soon as I have the possibility. I will let you know how it turns out. I really appreciate your help!
Best, Eirik søn, 2003-03-23 kl. 23:38 skrev J. Scott Amort: > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 05:49, Eirik Amundsen wrote: > > What I would higly appreciate: > > A detailed description of EXCACTLY what I will have to do to enable > > sound on my system using the ALSA drivers. > > Hi Eirik, > > I appreciate your confusion - it took me many months of experimentation > (which often resulted in a completely non-working system!) before I > began to feel comfortable with Linux, and I still suspect I've barely > scratched the surface. To further compound things, I can't get anything > past alsa 0.9.0rc6 to work on RH 8.1 (Phoebe), but you may be alright > with the latest version on plain RH 8. Here is what I suggest: > > download the alsa-driver package from: > > ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-0.9.2.tar.bz2 > > download the alsa-lib package from: > > ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-0.9.2.tar.bz2 > > download the alsa-utils package from: > > ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-0.9.2.tar.bz2 > > Open a terminal window and cd into the directory you downloaded these > files. Extract the contents by typing: > > tar -xjvf alsa-driver-0.9.2.tar.bz2, repeating for each package. > > You will now have three directories - alsa-driver-0.9.2, alsa-lib-0.9.2 > and alsa-utils-0.9.2 in your download directory. Starting with the > driver package: > > cd into the directory (i.e. cd alsa-driver-0.9.2) > run the following commands: > ./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 > make > su (after typing this, you will be prompted for the root password) > make install > > You may encounter an error after one of the steps, if so, post it and > people will try to help. After the make install step finishes, type > exit (this will remove your root privileges). In case this step doesn't > make sense, it is always recommended that you don't use root as your > regular account, instead create a normal user account and then > temporarily assume root privileges by using the su (superuser) command. > You'll notice the difference in the terminal window as the normal user > prompt is a $, while the su prompt is a #. Make sure you do the > ./configure and make steps as a regular user, only su'ing for the make > install. > > Next, do the same steps for both the alsa-lib-0.9.2 and alsa-utils-0.9.2 > in that order. For these two, you only need to do ./configure (i.e. > without the --with-cards=emu10k1, which was telling the alsa-driver > package to only compile the drivers for your Audigy card). > > Now, if everything compiled and installed fine, return to the > alsa-driver-0.9.2 directory. Type su, enter the root password and type: > > ./snddevices > > This creates some necessary links. Next, while still root, type: > > /sbin/modprobe snd-emu10k1 > > This should load the sound module. You may get a few unresolved symbols > errors here, that is the case for me when I use the latest alsa > drivers. If so, try the process again, but download the 0.9.0rc6 > version instead (same ftp, just replace 0.9.2 with 0.9.0rc6). > > Finally, you have to turn up the volume in the mixer as alsa mutes > everything by default, so, as a regular user type: > > alsamixer > > and adjust the output settings. You should now have sound! Two more > things still, though: to make sure this module is loaded at startup, you > need to modify the /etc/modules.conf file. As root (otherwise it will > be read-only), edit the file using whatever editor you are comfortable > with (i.e. emacs, gedit) and comment out or delete any sound lines that > are there already from the RH install process (the # character denotes a > comment). Then add: > > # ALSA native device support > alias char-major-116 snd > alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 > > # OSS/Free setup > 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-os > > Save and exit. This is probably more than is strictly necessary, and > I'm not exactly sure what it all does, but it seems to work! Now, when > you restart it should load the alsa sound modules automatically. But, > it is likely that the volumes will be muted again, so to fix that, type > the following (as a regular user, after you have the volumes set the way > you want): > > /usr/sbin/alsactl store > > This will save those values. Now, you have to tell redhat to load those > values on startup, so edit the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local (as root), and > add the following line: > > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore > > That should do it. Now, I must add that this is probably not the > official, correct or even most efficient way to accomplish this, it is > merely the way I have figured out, and it works for me. Others may > critique at will! Let me know how it goes. > > Regards, > > Scott > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
