At first, i never try to use alsa before a week ago. But i am a "linux only" user about 3 years from now. So, i think that generally, i really know what i am doing.
Here's the issue:
My sound card is a Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA PNP (before this, working ok with OSS). I am ussing Debian/Sid with gcc3.3 and a custom 2.4.20 kernel.
I try to get alsa work using the debian precompiled binarys and the
alsa-source package (to compile de driver for my custom kernel), but
besides that de module loads ok, i get a buggy sound. If i play a short
.wav with de play command (trough alsa-oss), works ok (sometimes i heard
a beeeeep after the sound played). But when the file grows in size
everithing goes wrong and i get no sound. If i use aplay instead it is like the programs hangs till i press Ctrl-C. With xmms an mp3s for example i get no sound at all, except for a shor noise when i hit play, then probably xmms hangs up it self. This happens both whit xmms-alsa trougth oss, and even whit de xmms-alsa plugin. Whit alsaplayer i can't get sound at all and the file didn't start to play.
Then i try diferent things like download alsa 0.9.4 from alsa site, and compile it my self, try the same with the alsa librarys (compiled from source and carefuly replacing de debian ones), but the result was exactly the same.
Now i am runing a linux-kernel 2.5.73-bk7 whit alsa compiled, having the same issue, and 3 day off googlin, reading docs, kernel-bugzilla, and other many many things didn't work.
Any help will be preciated ! Bellow i put some aditional information. If you need more just let me know.
TIA
-- Luciano PS: spanish is my native languague, so plz read with patience.
The channels are unmuted (pressing "m" in alsamixer) and volumes levels are ok.
The alsa devices existe in /dev/
/etc/modules.conf (fragment)
### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-sbawe
# module options should go here# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0# card #1
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
### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa --SNI [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [S16 ]: SB16 - Sound Blaster 16 Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&5
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc/asound$ cat version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.4 (Mon Jun 09 12:01:18 2003 UTC).
Compiled on Jun 29 2003 for kernel 2.5.73-bk7.
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