Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

Nigel, Well, as I said in my private email (forgot to include the mailing list), I connected up my USB box, and can now both record and play back using arecord and aplay. So the problem seems to be in the configuration of the SB sound card. It was a cheap OEM one, so probably isn't well supported

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

On Friday 14 March 2008 23:14, Peter Toye wrote: > Nigel, > > I've had a play, and have another problem, which I'd already found before, > but hoped it would go away. When I try using aplay or arecord I get this > error message: > > $ arecord -d 30 -f cd -t wav test1.wav > ALSA lib confmisc.c:769:(

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

Friday, March 7, 2008, 3:15:11 PM, you wrote: > On Wednesday 05 March 2008 23:48, Peter Toye wrote: >> Nigel, >> >> Thanks. My comments are below. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Peter >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.ptoye.com >> >> - >> >> Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:43:43 PM,

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

On Wednesday 05 March 2008 23:48, Peter Toye wrote: > Nigel, > > Thanks. My comments are below. > > Best regards, > > Peter > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ptoye.com > > - > > Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:43:43 PM, you wrote: > > Hi Peter. I've spent most of the afternoon (as

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

Nigel, Thanks. My comments are below. Best regards, Peter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ptoye.com - Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 6:43:43 PM, you wrote: > Hi Peter. I've spent most of the afternoon (as I have nothing better to do) > googling your problem, and there are a few

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 11:40, Peter Toye wrote: > Nigel, > > Thanks again. I wasn't trying to imply that you weren't helping, just > asking whether people who really know what's going on inside Alsa look at > the messages. > > Anyway, I tried your suggestion and it recreated asound.state. Exactly

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

James, Thanks. My comments are below. Best regards, Peter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ptoye.com - Sunday, March 2, 2008, 11:52:57 PM, you wrote: >> I'm a bit confused about the rest of your comment. The only file called >> devfs is a directory which has two subdirector

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

> Anyway, I tried your suggestion and it > recreated asound.state. Exactly the same > as the previous one (diff gives no changes), > and alsamixer gives the same error message. > By the way, the USB sound card is disconnected, > so that's not what's messing things up. Some distros do the alsactl s

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

Nigel, Thanks again. I wasn't trying to imply that you weren't helping, just asking whether people who really know what's going on inside Alsa look at the messages. Anyway, I tried your suggestion and it recreated asound.state. Exactly the same as the previous one (diff gives no changes), and als

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

On Monday 03 March 2008 18:12, Peter Toye wrote: > Nigel, > > Thanks for this. I've looked at the modules and the only one that's missing > is dialog. It seems that this is to make it easy to write scripts which put > up dialogue boxes, so I wouldn't have thought that aplay would give an > error me

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

Nigel, Oops - forgot to mention that I'm using Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). There seem to be quite a few people who've had problems with sound in GG. But none of the solutions on the Ubuntu bulletin board has helped me. Best regards, Peter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ptoye.com

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

> I'm a bit confused about the rest of your comment. > The only file called devfs is a directory which has > two subdirectories, neither of which seems to have > anything interesting in it (one is empty). And I > can't find a file called snddevices anywhere, but > might have mistyped (I'm not curre

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

On Sunday 02 March 2008 14:53, Peter Toye wrote: > James, > > Thanks for this. > > I am a member of the audio group, so problem there. The sound modules seem > to be loaded OK. > > The relevant bit of the output from lsmod is: > $ lsmod |grep snd > snd_emu10k1_synth 8192 0 > snd_emux_synth

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

James, Thanks for this. I am a member of the audio group, so problem there. The sound modules seem to be loaded OK. The relevant bit of the output from lsmod is: $ lsmod |grep snd snd_emu10k1_synth 8192 0 snd_emux_synth 35456 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 8064 1 s

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie question - cannot get sound to work in Ubuntu

> Typing "alsamixer" in a terminal window gives: > "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device" This error normally happens when it can't find the devices. Is your user in the audio group? Are you running udev/devfs? If not, did you run ./snddevices ? Are the sound m

Re: [Alsa-user] newbie question about agnula

Gerd Schering wrote: >> Google says agnula.info >> > Yes, but this looks like a commercial site - not like some background > info to alsa. You must be looking at a different one to the one I see, it starts: > *IMPORTANT*: The AGNULA/DeMuDi project is > at the momen

Re: [Alsa-user] newbie question about agnula

John Haxby wrote: Gerd Schering wrote: on the homepage of the alsa project, there is - on the left side (New Users) - a link (-> backgrounf info) which points to agnula.org. This site seems to have gone. Does anyone know what happened and where the background info can be found now? G

Re: [Alsa-user] newbie question about agnula

Gerd Schering wrote: > on the homepage of the alsa project, there is - on the left side (New > Users) - > a link (-> backgrounf info) which points to agnula.org. > This site seems to have gone. > Does anyone know what happened and where the background info can be > found now? Google says agnula.

Re: [Alsa-user] [Newbie] Question re. "unresolved symbols" error

Andrew Heil wrote: > In order to try out Rosegarden, I installed the ALSA v0.9.0rc7 drivers. > When compiling the drivers, I got the following errors (or something > very similar): > > Unresolved symbols in snd-gus-synth.o > Unresolved symbols in snd-emu8000-synth.o > Unresolved symbols in snd-emu1

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie Question: mixer settings

> My sound now works thanks to some great advice, and I have all my modules > loading up at system startup. However, my mixer does not hold the settings > I give it before rebooting my system. Is this something that I can automate > or do I need to do it by hand every time? > > Thanks for any he

Re: [Alsa-user] Newbie Question: mixer settings

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:53:03 + "Jayson Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My sound now works thanks to some great advice, and I have all my modules > loading up at system startup. However, my mixer does not hold the settings > I give it before rebooting my system. Is this something tha

RE: [Alsa-user] Newbie Question

no, you dont need to recompile the kernel, you just need the sources kernels if you want install alsa-drive , you can find the package in 2nd cd of RedHat in development/system. Put 2nd cd in your cdrom, and if you have kde run utilitis/autorun, normally goes directely to gnome-rmp and pres