Hello everyone. I just subscribed to this group in hope that I will find the answer to all my grief ;-)
So here's the history: I just installed slackware 8.0. I would like to get sound working. I was running kernel version 2.2.19, and someone told me to try i810_audio module, which worked ok for small segments of sound, but sucked for mp3's (it played back way too fast). After a few Google searches, it seems ALSA was a promising answer to my problem, so I dowloaded it. Impressive package, I must say. Maybe I'll get around to contributing to it this summer if I'm up to the challenge. In the mean time, I compiled 0.5.12a. When I loaded my sound module snd-card-intel8x0 I got the "unresolved symbol: waitqueue_lock" error in snd-timer.o. After a few more Google searches, it seems a kernel recompile was a good solution. I recompiled and am now running 2.4.5. Recompiled and re-installed alsa-driver and alsa-util-0.5.10. Now, it seems that ALSA loads fine (when I run "utils/alsasound start") but tells me that my channels are muted and that I have to edit my /etc/asound.conf. I've modified my /etc/modules.conf and added: alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0 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 I've tried download some samples of this /etc/asound.conf because I haven't the slightest clue what the syntax for it is, and there was none already created. I've tried alsamixer and amixer. alsamixer says that it can't open mixer #0/#0. When I add the "-c" option, it says can't open mixer #-19/#0. When I add the '-m' option, it just says can't open mixer #0/#1. amixer says it can't find an ALSA driver but when I do lsmod, everything is there ! Also, I've tried kmix, which used to have a valid mixer (when I was running 2.2.19 and before ALSA installation). Now, when I open it is just has a flat panel that says "Unknown mixer". Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Thanks a lot, Marc _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
