Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724 [SOLVED]

2005-09-26 Thread David Ciecierski
Hello, I thought I'd recap on this 'problem'... Well, usurprisingly it was just me using gstreamer for the first time; there was nothing wrong with ALSA but rather gstreamer - it defaults to OSS, and I don't have ALSA-OSS plugin. All that I had to do was go gstreamer-properties -> choose ALSA.

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Supertux needs SDL_mixer to play sounds, it may also need smpeg. Did you install SDL_mixer? Yes, I've had both since the beginning. A while ago I was checking if smpeg did not use gstreamer (then broken gstreamer would explain supertux exiting), but it doesn't. It's just slightly worrying that

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Benton
David Ciecierski wrote: Some success at last. Just as I thought it was just me & my frame of mind that wasted me several desperate hours. As you may remember, alsamixer run properly, but alsaconf didn't, same for supertux, totem and other higher-level apps. Hence I was certain it has to be a pr

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Some success at last. Just as I thought it was just me & my frame of mind that wasted me several desperate hours. As you may remember, alsamixer run properly, but alsaconf didn't, same for supertux, totem and other higher-level apps. Hence I was certain it has to be a problem with kernel / alsa

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread DJ Lucas
David Ciecierski wrote: >> Might want to hold on OOo, unless you are doing the 2.0 branch. I'm >> just about done with 1.1.5 + gcc4. > > > Yes, it's beta2. It seems to have problems with jdk1.5 (beanshell > component in particular), although last night I couldn't be bothered to > properly invest

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Might want to hold on OOo, unless you are doing the 2.0 branch. I'm just about done with 1.1.5 + gcc4. Yes, it's beta2. It seems to have problems with jdk1.5 (beanshell component in particular), although last night I couldn't be bothered to properly investigate. I'm trying to get it to compil

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread DJ Lucas
David Ciecierski wrote: >> First, has this sound card worked before in previous LFS with udev? > > > This box run on Mandrake 10.1 for the past year, ie. udev-030. > >> lets remove the 15-alsa.rules file and make certain that is > >> not where the problem lies, it is a relatively new addition.

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
andy:~$ ls -l /dev/snd It's exactly the same then! Interesting... Does totem work for root? No, it gives an error message about not being able to find the chosen output. I'm now compiling the kernel with patched ALSA drivers - 2.6.12.5 had 1.0.9rc2, current stable is 1.0.9b. Looking at ch

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Benton
David Ciecierski wrote: Yes, all users (well, apart from pkg-users) are in the audio group. Even root. So what device nodes do you have on your system? Would be grateful if you could `ls` it... andy:~$ ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 2005-09-24 17:03 controlC0 crw-rw-

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Please ignore the above post... ALSA-drivers are kernel modules, and I already have kernel support for my sound card. Silly. -- David Ciecierski Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfrom

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
Gosh, just realised by looking at install.log that ALSA comes with drivers for Yamaha, but 744 chipset - mine is 724, which apparently requires the alsa-drivers package! Hope I'll be able to report [SOLVED] in a couple of minutes... -- David Ciecierski Want control, education, and security fr

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread David Ciecierski
The device nodes you posted before look almost identical to mine and my system works fine. If Totem and Supertux can't access the audio devices, have you added yourself to the audio group? Yes, all users (well, apart from pkg-users) are in the audio group. Even root. So what device nodes do yo

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Benton
David Ciecierski wrote: What is the problem? The problem is that no application can use the sound card, and alsactl is the prime example of that (please refer to my original post). The issue started with Totem not launching and complaining it cannot find the requested sound output + supertux

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-23 Thread David Ciecierski
Nope, it's still the same. Why would only some device nodes get created anyway? Ie. udev creates pcm* but not hw. It would be sort of more understandable if none were - then the sound board is simply not detected in some way. Could it be a problem with the kernel module..? I should mention that

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-23 Thread David Ciecierski
First, has this sound card worked before in previous LFS with udev? This box run on Mandrake 10.1 for the past year, ie. udev-030. lets remove the 15-alsa.rules file and make certain that is > not where the problem lies, it is a relatively new addition. If that doesn't correct the problem, c

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-23 Thread DJ Lucas
David Ciecierski wrote: > But now... I tried run alsaconf, it replied with "modinfo: could not > find module snd" and did not detect any sound cards. I then had a look > under /dev/snd, and found only the following: > > crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 2005-09-23 22:03 controlC0 > crw-rw 1 r

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-23 Thread David Ciecierski
What is the problem? The problem is that no application can use the sound card, and alsactl is the prime example of that (please refer to my original post). The issue started with Totem not launching and complaining it cannot find the requested sound output + supertux exiting upon trying to p

Re: ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-23 Thread Andrew Benton
David Ciecierski wrote: alsamixer runs happily, detecting the sound card. But speaker-test produces only loud noise. To be honest, I haven't got the slightest idea what could be the source of the problem. Any clues..? Tips much appreciated! What is the problem? -- http://linuxfromscratch.o

ALSA & Yamaha YMF-724

2005-09-23 Thread David Ciecierski
Hello, I'm having weird problems with this PCI card. Its driver is compiled into the kernel, and on boottime I get the following in sys.log: kernel: ALSA device list: kernel: #0: Yamaha DS-XG (YMF724) at 0xe300, irq 11 So everything should be ok on the kernel side. Obviously I have the