until recently i regarded alsa as something to do with sound that i'd best
avoid since it was yet another thing that sounded too complicated to get
involved in... but now it looks like i have to use it 'cause i'm using a box
@work that doesn't seem to want to work without it... here's the details:
# grep audio /proc/pci
Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 2).
looking in the sound section in the kernel config tells me that there's
nothing there that'll support my card, so after a few blind guesses (and many
recompiles) i gave up and started looking for alternatives. in my quest, i
found this:
www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/comp/toshiba.html
this guy seems to have the same soundcard as me (ok, so he's on a laptop, but
the /proc/pci says the same thing) so i thought, why not try out alsa? he
used it and says it works fine...
so i followed the gentoo-alsa howto and used the "Intel 8x0" driver (since
that's what the guy used) and when i got to the "/etc/init.d/alsasound start"
step, the thing segfaulted. what's worse, i tried rebooting after that and
it hung on "shutting down sshd... [ok]". THEN when i hard-reset, it came
back up and spewed this out onto the screen (i'd set alsasound to the boot
runlevel like it said in the howto):
[copied from /var/log/messages after successfull boot]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:09.0
printing eip:
c01c0e19
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01c0e19>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 01a6a001 ebx: e60811ff ecx: e6081000 edx: c01076ec
esi: c0002014 edi: c0af3960 ebp: c1aa3c00 esp: ce08de4c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process modprobe (pid: 17153, stackpage=ce08d000)
Stack: c0af3960 c01076ec e6081000 c01c10e7 c01076ec c0af3960 0000001c c9ac5004
c9ac5000 c9ac5024 d09a2e00 c01076ec e6081000 00000200 c9ac5004 fffffffe
cf7b4a24 cf7b4a24 d09a40c5 cf7b4a37 cf7b4a00 d09a3394 cf7b4a00 c1aa3c00
Call Trace: [<c01c10e7>] [<d09a2e00>] [<d09a40c5>] [<d09a3394>]
[<c01aa98e>]
[<d09a43b0>] [<d09a4a40>] [<c030de85>] [<d09a43b0>] [<d09a4a40>]
[<c030df2c>]
[<d09a4a40>] [<d09a3819>] [<d09a4a40>] [<c01bcdba>] [<d09a0060>]
[<d09a4254>]
[<d09a0060>] [<c01a9237>]
Jul 16 09:06:55 sellout kernel:
Code: 39 58 04 77 0a 39 48 08 8d 70 14 72 ed eb d6 89 47 14 31 c0
[end]
so i hard-reset again and this time booted with the gentoo install cd, deleted
the symlink to alsasound in /etc/runlevels/boot and rebooted. sure enough
everything except sound works... but i would really like to get sound
working. what did i miss? thanks for any help.
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