hi, I remember that in Archie I have similar problem with soundcard, one of changes I make in sound configuration was:
turn ON all elements in alsamixer load module snd-via82xx load module snd-pcm-oss and .................. I load snd-pcm-oss...... sound work OK and now I can view /dev/dsp in /dev (I dont explain that) INCREDIBLE !!! alsaconf is not configured, MASTER is zero, but sound is OK thankyou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 21:20, giovedì 20 ottobre 2005, Ken Moffat ha scritto: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, sacarde wrote: > > for me is: > > Card: VIA 8237 > > Chip: C-Media Electronics CMI9761 > > > >> and I need to unmute the Master and first PCM controls (sliders 1 and > >> 3, from the left, starting to count at 1). > > > > I unmute slider 1 (MASTER) but is blocked to zero > > I unmute other and select high volume > > > > I think MASTER is blocked because command alsaconf no found my soundcard > > error is: No supported PnP or PCI card found > > so I installed alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a (this is not included into BLFS6.1) > > but the result no change > > It should be the kernel itself that recognises (or not) the soundcard. > I'd never heard of the Archie distro, but it seems to be a LiveCD - > maybe you could use it to get sound playing, note which modules were > loaded, and perhaps note any alsa conf file ? > > > do you know where ALSA store soundcard database ? > > Can I add by hand via82xx ? > > That would be the alsa.conf file or whatever it's called - as I think I > said, I don't have this on my boxes. > > >> I can remember a chip on another box (possibly via) that could *only* > >> play 48KHz samples, not 44.1KHz (like CD) files - the quote from your > >> dmesg sounds a bit like that - are you using a sound file that you know > >> worked when you were running the Archie distro ? > > > > yes, > > I try to play a lot of mp3, no sound > > To debug what is going on, it's _a_lot_ easier to use a wav file - mp3s > introduce more software (to play them - aplay can't make sense of them) > and the possibility of /dev problems. For userspace applications, > strace is sometimes helpful to find what is going on - it _might_ be > able to tell you what files are being accessed (or not), but for the > kernel-level part of alsa I doubt it will help. > > Ken -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
