Kent West wrote:
I just got blessed with a Gateway E-3400 933MHz PIII box; sweet
machine.
I've recompiled a new 2.4.2 kernel and everything's working well except
for sound.
It's an "AC'97 soft audio using ADI 1881" setup (according to Gateway
tech support). According to the ALSA mini-HOWTO, this requires the
snd-card-intel8x0
module, which I have downloaded and compiled, along with the appropriate
libs and utils. (I'm running a 2.4.2 kernel). After installing the
module, lsmod reports:
snd-card-intel8x0 6992 0 (unused)
snd-pcm 49248 0 [snd-card-intel8x0]
snd-timer 9664 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 18336 0 [snd-card-intel8x0]
snd 27696 1 [snd-card-intel8x0 snd-pcm
snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
vmnet 17632 1
vmmon 18672 0
3c59x 22848 1
appletalk 17680 0
vfat 10576 0 (unused)
fat 30624 0 [vfat]
smbfs 33744 0 (unused)
I also ran .snddevices as per the instructions, which presumably
created the /dev files needed (there is a /dev/snd directory now).
When I try to "splay" some sound file (.wav or .mp3), I get:
Cannot open /dev/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp!
splay: Failed to open sound device.
When I run "saytime", I get no sound and no errors.
When I try to cat (SomeSoundFile) > /dev/dsp, I get
bash: /dev/dsp: No such device
Same for /dev/audio.
I am in the audio group. I've also tried all this as root.
Just now I found another piece; according to the ALSA mini-HOWTO I
needed to "modprobe snd-pcm1-oss", which didn't exist. However, I did
find a "snd-pcm-oss". After loading it, I can now cat soundfiles to
/dev/[audio|dsp] without getting an error. However, I still get no
sound. This is a brand new machine, so I don't even know for sure that
the sound hardware (speakers, wires, etc) work correctly, so I'll try to
verify that everything's working there.