Re: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M
Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robby Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got nothing in /dev/sound. There's no /dev/snd or /dev/asound, which I thought would be there for alsa. There's no /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer which are old oss holdouts, I believe. as usual, lspcidrake -f -v. have you enabled both alsa sound services ? you can try both snd-card-cmi-pci or cmpci modules Looks like it was a classical prblem exists between keyboard and chair. I guess the card wasn't seated properly. lspcidrake didn't show anything, so I pulled out the card, stuck it in a different pci slot, and lo and behold, after adding the lines in modules.conf, it worked! Thanks for the prompt replies and help! Robby Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97
Re: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M
Robby Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks like it was a classical prblem exists between keyboard and chair. I guess the card wasn't seated properly. lspcidrake didn't show anything, uh? i don't want to be impolite, but are you sure that the card was properly inserted. i've seen several time that if a pci card isn't put deeply in the slot, the pci controller doesn't see it. pixel had a graphic card which wasn't correctly plugged and one day the card goes 1 militers out of the slot because pixel moves his pc; the box seems freezed; when connected via ssh, we saw that X11 was eating all cpu time and wasn't killable (was D-state because pci writes were interrupted when card say goodbye). he reboot but the box only say bip bip until we figure that the card wasn't corretly plugged. so I pulled out the card, stuck it in a different pci slot, and lo and behold, after adding the lines in modules.conf, it worked!
Re: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M
Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robby Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks like it was a classical prblem exists between keyboard and chair. I guess the card wasn't seated properly. lspcidrake didn't show anything, uh? i don't want to be impolite, but are you sure that the card was properly inserted. That's what card wasn't seated properly means - it wasn't inserted into the slot correctly. i've seen several time that if a pci card isn't put deeply in the slot, the pci controller doesn't see it. ... -- Murray J. Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (404) 978-1262 x2646 - voicemail/fax __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com
RE: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cooker-owner@linux- mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Robby Stephenson Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M Hi all, I'm using beta4, and I just got a sound card to go in my newly assembly computer. I ended up buying a cheap one, but I figured it'd be ok since the box said linux supported. It's an audio excel av515m, using the c-media 8738 6-ch chipset. It came with a cmpci driver, but that's also part of the kernel, looks like. But anyway, I also saw that it is supported by alsa using the snd-card-cmipci driver. Trouble is, I can't get anything to work. Something's screwy with devfs. I've got nothing in /dev/sound. There's no /dev/snd or /dev/asound, which I thought would be there for alsa. There's no /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer which are old oss holdouts, I believe. DrakConf doesn't recognize that I have a sound card. It throws up four Via Technologies Unknown lines under Other Devices in the hardware section, along with another Unknown. It says to send the /proc/bus/* files to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which I can do, but I wanted to check with the cooker list first. In the /proc/bus/pci directory, I have a devices file, and two directories, 00, and 01. The only other pci device I have is a netword card which is correctly identified. The 01 directory is nearly empty with only a 00.0 file. The 00 directory has several. Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Should I be manually modifying the /modules.conf file? Sure. cat /etc/modules.conf alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cmipci ^D and reboot. If it does not work it means this card is not supported by this driver. Oh, another thing, why does harddrake forget harddrake. You may want search for harddrake in archives and then you understand why. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M
Robby Stephenson wrote: I also saw that it is supported by alsa using the snd-card-cmipci driver. Trouble is, I can't get anything to work. Something's screwy with devfs. Hi, I had same prb with the Mandrake 8.1. 1 - what give you a cat /proc/asound/sndstat ? 2 - I give you my modules.conf file for the same module (it is big, tune the options field if needed) : [...] # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cmipci options snd-card-cmipci snd_index=0 snd_id=cmipci snd_dac_frame_size=4 snd_adc_frame_size=4 snd_enable_midi=1 snd_enable_fm=1 # OSS/Free portion 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-oss [...] 3 - Check in /etc/init.d/ that you have not the sound script file (only the alsa one). 4 - Check in /etc/security/console.perms that the line /dev/snd/* \ has been added in the sound class by these fellow Mandrake developers. I use 2 snd cards with Alsa drivers, it works perfectly for me. I can play 2 mp3 at different speed and I mix the 2 output, I plan to do something using Alsaplayer to change speed with joysticks/or hardware dev using the 2 joystick ports. Adrien.
Re: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M
Robby Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got nothing in /dev/sound. There's no /dev/snd or /dev/asound, which I thought would be there for alsa. There's no /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer which are old oss holdouts, I believe. as usual, lspcidrake -f -v. have you enabled both alsa sound services ? you can try both snd-card-cmi-pci or cmpci modules
Re: [Cooker] sound card problems, audioexcel 515M
On Thu, 07 Mar, at 16:10:48 +0100, Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] done
said:
Robby Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've got nothing in /dev/sound. There's no /dev/snd or /dev/asound,
which I thought would be there for alsa. There's no /dev/dsp or
/dev/mixer which are old oss holdouts, I believe.
as usual, lspcidrake -f -v.
have you enabled both alsa sound services ?
you can try both snd-card-cmi-pci or cmpci modules
Well, I was able to get around the problems I was having in beta{2,3}
with sound on my VAIO laptops (ymfpci kernel module) by hacking
modules.conf, but I am having *NO* luck in doing so in beta4!
No matter what kernel I boot into, devfs or not, I can't get any sound.
The only adjustment aumix has is for Mic. Not good. The kernel
module's loaded (using the default method as well as the work-around I
had for the earlier beta releases) and '/etc/init.d/{alsa,sound} status'
both say that sound's loaded.
In my case, with the stock 2.4.18-2mdk kernel, there _is_
/dev/{dsp,mixer}, but no /dev/sound or /dev/asound (if that matters).
Quite frustrating.
-Charlie
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