On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:44:09 -0500
Marc Lanctot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
If you are using devfs make sure you edited the devfsd.conf file as described
in the INSTALL file in the alsa-driver directory. HTH,
-Frans
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