Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Did you install Alasa? Check out the Gentoo docs on setting up sound. On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:00:28 +0100 (CET) Alexander Borghgraef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just installed gentoo 1.4 for the first time, so I'm not very familiar with the system yet, and obviously I've still got a few problems. Let's begin with the sound, when I run sound-using applications (as root), I get error messages of the '/dev/sound/dsp not found' variety. When I check, indeed there's no /dev/sound/dsp, but there is a /dev/sound/dspW. I suppose that's the device I need to use instead, so I made a symbolic link /dev/sound/dsp to it, but to no avail. IIRC in my previous linux install (debian woody) the sound device was /dev/dsp, and I got that one working fine (after fixing some permission problems). Any ideas what causes these problems? -- Alexander Borghgraef Vakgroep Telecommunicatie en Informatieverwerking Tel: +32-(0)9-264 34 16 Universiteit Gent Fax: +32-(0)9-264 42 95 St-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgiumemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Hi Robert, Thanks for your detail advice and link. The 1st problem encountered is to untar the package as follows; # mkdir /home/satimis/kernel downloaded patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2 patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2 from kernel.org # cd /home/satimis/kernel # tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2 tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors # tar -jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2 tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors # tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2 tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors # tar -jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2 tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Could not proceed further. Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Robert Crawford wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:50 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Robert, use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p alsa-driver, and you se the latest is I seem to remember 0.9.7. # emerge search kernel * sys-kernel/genkernel Latest version 1.8 From kernel.org The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is: *2.6.0-test8 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2* Can I upgrade it from the tarball to be download from kernel.org site? Please give me more information about which Gentoo forum. I have been looking around for this topic. --- Stephen, Here's the linkd to the Official Gentoo furum- It's huge, and you get great info for anything imaginable. http://forums.gentoo.org/ Here's the link to a post I made on kernel 2.6.0-testx's, and installing it from vanilla source, with a step by step foolproof method, that never touches your present kernel setup. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=97910highlight= Since you mentioned alsa sound, you need to compile alsa stuff directly into the kernel, not as modules. My .config alsa section from 2.6.0-test8-mm1 is shown below, but you might like to say Y to more items than I did, and in the subsequent sound sections, say Y for your particular hardware. Then you should emerge alsa-utils and probably alsa-mixer, but don't emerge the Gentoo alsa drivers, because the 2.6 kernel provides those itself. Robert Crawford # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y # CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y # CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y # CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set # CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
begin quote On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:30:25 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, Thanks for your detail advice and link. The 1st problem encountered is to untar the package as follows; # mkdir /home/satimis/kernel downloaded patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2 patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2 from kernel.org # cd /home/satimis/kernel # tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2 tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors there is no .tar anywhere there. they arent archives. they are compressed files bunzip2 patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2 to decompress them. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
I would seriously suggest going to the Gentoo website (www.gentoo.org) and reading all the documentation, then check out the forums (forums.gentoo.org) and read the frequently asked questions. As a general rule you don't download any sources, or compile anything manually. That is all handled by emerge, the only package(s) that require manual compilation are the kernel ebuilds. To get sound working just follow the instructions in the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide, it provides all the steps needed to get sound working. Do NOT download patches/sources etc, that defeats the whole purpose of Gentoo. -- Andrew Heberle My life is a soap opera, but who has the rights? -- MadameX Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Robert, Thanks for your detail advice and link. The 1st problem encountered is to untar the package as follows; # mkdir /home/satimis/kernel downloaded patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2 patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2 from kernel.org # cd /home/satimis/kernel # tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2 tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors # tar -jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2 tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors # tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2 tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors # tar -jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2 tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Could not proceed further. Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Robert Crawford wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:50 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Robert, use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p alsa-driver, and you se the latest is I seem to remember 0.9.7. # emerge search kernel * sys-kernel/genkernel Latest version 1.8 From kernel.org The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is: *2.6.0-test8 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2* Can I upgrade it from the tarball to be download from kernel.org site? Please give me more information about which Gentoo forum. I have been looking around for this topic. --- Stephen, Here's the linkd to the Official Gentoo furum- It's huge, and you get great info for anything imaginable. http://forums.gentoo.org/ Here's the link to a post I made on kernel 2.6.0-testx's, and installing it from vanilla source, with a step by step foolproof method, that never touches your present kernel setup. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=97910highlight= Since you mentioned alsa sound, you need to compile alsa stuff directly into the kernel, not as modules. My .config alsa section from 2.6.0-test8-mm1 is shown below, but you might like to say Y to more items than I did, and in the subsequent sound sections, say Y for your particular hardware. Then you should emerge alsa-utils and probably alsa-mixer, but don't emerge the Gentoo alsa drivers, because the 2.6 kernel provides those itself. Robert Crawford # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y # CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y # CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y # CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set # CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Hi mathieu, mathieu wrote: - snip - .config snip: # CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set media-sound/emu10k1 should also not be installed (but maybe it doesn't matter if it's installed anyway). Compile you kernel without emu10k1 support then run: ALSA_CARDS='emu10k1' emerge alsa-driver then add alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 to /etc/modules.d/alsa ntoe that you must re-emerge alsa-driver after every kernel compilation. If you use alsa-driver, emu10k1 MUST NOT be compiled in the kernel. Now I have Gentoo 1.4 and KDE 3.1.4 running but without sound. emu10K1 has not been installed. I tried to follow http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Code listing 2.1 # cd /usr/src/linux coming to # cp .config ~/ where is the correct path to the destination file Whether I need to download the driver from Alsa website and follow the instruction on http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labscard=Soundblaster+Live+Valuechip=EMU10K1module=emu10k1 # emerge search alsa also found media-sound/alsa-driver (version 0.9.2) The latest version of tarball is alsa-driver-0.9.7c.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-0.9.7c.tar.bz2 from Alsa website ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver Can I download the latest driver from Alsa website and follow their instruction on the abovementioned URL to proceed skipping Code listing 2.1 Kindly advise. Thank in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Now I have Gentoo 1.4 and KDE 3.1.4 running but without sound. emu10K1 has not been installed. # cd /usr/src/linux coming to # cp .config ~/ where is the correct path to the destination file I don't really understand it, I see no reason for doing this cp. you could do a cp .config .config.bak to have a backup. I recon you have allready removed all other sound in the kernel that soundcore. # emerge search alsa also found media-sound/alsa-driver (version 0.9.2) use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p alsa-driver, and you se the latest is I seem to remember 0.9.7. -- Sigurd Stordal President of GOGS Experimental Petrologist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 8:25 am, Sigurd Stordal wrote: Now I have Gentoo 1.4 and KDE 3.1.4 running but without sound. emu10K1 has not been installed. # cd /usr/src/linux coming to # cp .config ~/ where is the correct path to the destination file I don't really understand it, I see no reason for doing this cp. you could do a cp .config .config.bak to have a backup. I recon you have allready removed all other sound in the kernel that soundcore. # emerge search alsa also found media-sound/alsa-driver (version 0.9.2) use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p alsa-driver, and you se the latest is I seem to remember 0.9.7. Unless I missed it, I didn't see what kernel you use. If 2.4.xx, you might consider going to 2.6 The alsa stuff is already in 2.6.0 versions, and works better, not requiring an emerge of alsa-drivers. There's good info on the Gentoo forum. Robert Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Hi Robert, - snip - use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p alsa-driver, and you se the latest is I seem to remember 0.9.7. Unless I missed it, I didn't see what kernel you use. If 2.4.xx, you might consider going to 2.6 The alsa stuff is already in 2.6.0 versions, and works better, not requiring an emerge of alsa-drivers. There's good info on the Gentoo forum. Linux version 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 I think kernel version is 2.4.20 # emerge search kernel * sys-kernel/genkernel Latest version 1.8 From kernel.org The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is: *2.6.0-test8 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2* Can I upgrade it from the tarball to be download from kernel.org site? Please give me more information about which Gentoo forum. I have been looking around for this topic. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:50 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Robert, use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p alsa-driver, and you se the latest is I seem to remember 0.9.7. # emerge search kernel * sys-kernel/genkernel Latest version 1.8 From kernel.org The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is: *2.6.0-test8 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2* Can I upgrade it from the tarball to be download from kernel.org site? Please give me more information about which Gentoo forum. I have been looking around for this topic. --- Stephen, Here's the linkd to the Official Gentoo furum- It's huge, and you get great info for anything imaginable. http://forums.gentoo.org/ Here's the link to a post I made on kernel 2.6.0-testx's, and installing it from vanilla source, with a step by step foolproof method, that never touches your present kernel setup. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=97910highlight= Since you mentioned alsa sound, you need to compile alsa stuff directly into the kernel, not as modules. My .config alsa section from 2.6.0-test8-mm1 is shown below, but you might like to say Y to more items than I did, and in the subsequent sound sections, say Y for your particular hardware. Then you should emerge alsa-utils and probably alsa-mixer, but don't emerge the Gentoo alsa drivers, because the 2.6 kernel provides those itself. Robert Crawford # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y # CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y # CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y # CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set # CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Hi Mike, - snip - emu10k1 is a sound driver which must be compiled into the kernel or compiled as a module. Have you done that? If not, you need to and then be sure the module is loaded at boot time otherwise you will not have sound. I will reinstall emu10k1. At time of installing the OS its installation ran continuously without end. I terminated it by reboot. I expect to know whether after starting the OS, I can run # emerge emu10k1 without going through with Live-CD and chroot, etc. Is there a shortcut? B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
Le Mardi 14 Octobre 2003 14:42, Stephen Liu a écrit : Hi Mike, - snip - emu10k1 is a sound driver which must be compiled into the kernel or compiled as a module. Have you done that? If not, you need to and then be sure the module is loaded at boot time otherwise you will not have sound. I will reinstall emu10k1. At time of installing the OS its installation ran continuously without end. I terminated it by reboot. I expect to know whether after starting the OS, I can run # emerge emu10k1 without going through with Live-CD and chroot, etc. Is there a shortcut? B.R. Stephen If you use alsa-driver, emu10k1 MUST NOT be compiled in the kernel. .config snip: # CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set media-sound/emu10k1 should also not be installed (but maybe it doesn't matter if it's installed anyway). Compile you kernel without emu10k1 support then run: ALSA_CARDS='emu10k1' emerge alsa-driver then add alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 to /etc/modules.d/alsa ntoe that you must re-emerge alsa-driver after every kernel compilation. -- mathieu perrenoud -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:42:36 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Mike, - snip - emu10k1 is a sound driver which must be compiled into the kernel or compiled as a module. Have you done that? If not, you need to and then be sure the module is loaded at boot time otherwise you will not have sound. I will reinstall emu10k1. At time of installing the OS its installation ran continuously without end. I terminated it by reboot. I expect to know whether after starting the OS, I can run # emerge emu10k1 without going through with Live-CD and chroot, etc. Is there a shortcut? B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Greetings, You still need to compile the sound driver into the kernel as a module. I tried compiling it in but it didn't work. For me, it works better as a module and then you need to have the driver load at boot by placing the module name in /etc/modules.autoload: emu10k1. Is there a shortcut? I really don't know. To my knowledge, there is not. I have never emerged the sound driver. I have always recompiled the kernel to my liking and configured the sound from there. I really don't anything about the Live-CD stuff. Sorry about that. Keep asking because someone will surely know. If you find another solution I would very much appreciate knowing what you find out for my own knowledge. :-) Good luck. Sorry if I haven't been much help. Regards, Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sound problem
Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4, 2CD version == I have Creative Sound Blaster Live card installed on my PC. During installing the OS I ran # emerge emu10k1 The download time was short but the total installation time took 2+ hours without completion compelling me to reboot the PC finally. Now the OS is running without sound. Can I reinstall it with the same command without chroot. How can I avoid repeating previous mishap running installation endless. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On 13 Oct 2003, at 4:31 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: The download time was short but the total installation time took 2+ hours without completion compelling me to reboot the PC finally. Now the OS is running without sound. Can I reinstall it with the same command without chroot. How can I avoid repeating previous mishap running installation endless. I think you might find these products more suitable than Gentoo: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/standard http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/powerpack Mandrake is the distro I recommend to my friends who haven't ever used Linux before. It handles installation of binaries more smoothly than Gentoo does - the stuff you see running endlessly off the screen is Gentoo compiling the software from the language originally written by the programmer into machine-readable (binary) form. You can leave the compilation running in the background - alt-f1, alt-f2 c switch to a different virtual terminal - but on my Pentium II III systems some compiles literally take days. It should not be necessary to reboot the PC to abort the compilation - pressing the ctrl C keys together should terminate the emerge. If you use Mandrake for 6 months and really like it, but find some things don't quite fit the way you want them to, find yourself compiling from source often, or find yourself more comfortable at the command-line, then perhaps then would be a good time to come back to Gentoo. I really don't consider Gentoo a first Linux distribution. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:31:26 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Gentoo 1.4, 2CD version == I have Creative Sound Blaster Live card installed on my PC. During installing the OS I ran # emerge emu10k1 The download time was short but the total installation time took 2+ hours without completion compelling me to reboot the PC finally. Now the OS is running without sound. Can I reinstall it with the same command without chroot. How can I avoid repeating previous mishap running installation endless. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Greetings! emu10k1 is a sound driver which must be compiled into the kernel or compiled as a module. Have you done that? If not, you need to and then be sure the module is loaded at boot time otherwise you will not have sound. Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] sound problem with new kernel
Because I'm running an nforce2 based board, it is neccessary to rebuilt sound and nic drivers after a kernel recompile. I did so this morning and most everything works. I normally listen to an ASF stream between noon and 3 PM Eastern time but now the sound is VERY low. I can just barely hear it at full volume with my high powered Altec Lansing speakers. I tried my alternate MP3 stream and when it started I was nearly deafened. Things were spining around and falling off my desk. Does anyone have any ideas? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sound Problem
I have MagicMedia 256AV audio on an old Presario 1920 laptop and I can't seem to get the sound to work. I have read that with this particular laptop, the IRQ, I/O, and DMA settings need to be set manually. So my questions is how exactly to I set all of this manually? TIA -- Jon Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
