At Fri, 13 Jun 103 16:46:25 -0700 (PDT), Poul Petersen wrote: > > > > I think there is something else going on here. I can not get > > > sound to work with either the OSS drivers or ALSA, but it does work > > > under Windows (so I know the hardware is OK). As I mentioned before, I > > > can get both OSS and ALSA working with an extra sound card I have lying > > > around, so I know I'm doing the steps correctly, it just seems that > > > neither the OSS or ALSA driver correctly supports the onboard hardware. As > > > another data point, I just tried the commercial OSS driver and it works > > > with the onboard sound so I'm pretty sure it is not a hardware problem. > > > > i wrote hardware "set-up". it doesn't mean that the hardware is > > broken. as mentioned above, the power-management might play a role > > here, which is basically a job of the kernel core. > > Power-management? How would that affect the sound driver? I > thought you were talking about APIC - the extended interrupts.
in many cases, ACPI (not APIC) brings the problem, since the irq routing is influenced by it. > In any > event, I have power management disabled and I have tried it with both > APIC interrupts and without. I'm still failry skeptical about it being a > hardware problem because I can: > > 1) load commercial OSS drivers -> works > 2) unload commercial drivers > 3) load ALSA drivers -> does not work, strange error messages > 4) Reload commercial OSS driver -> works > > So, without rebooting (so no change in interrupt allocation, io > base whatever else) one set of drivers works and the other does not. BTW > OSS/Free drivers also do not work. What I don't know is how to go about > troubleshooting why the ALSA driver seems to not work? i forgot which chip type exactly you're using. if it's not a VIA8233A (i.e. 8233 or 8235), this might be a bad support of direct-sound (DXS) channels. please try the second PCM device once. it's hw:0,1 for ALSA native apps and /dev/adsp for OSS apps. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
