On Monday, 31 May 2004 at 21:22:49 -0500, dircha wrote: > Eric Cheney wrote: > >Hi People. I am trying to get a box up and running and am stuck with > >sound problems. I compiled a new 2.6.6 kernel kernel.org and the > >kernel seems OK. The sound card is a sound blaster live and I > >compiled that into the kernel; along with the mixer and stuff. I'm > >using ALSA. On boot, the kernel recognizes the sound card. However, > >when in GNOME I test the usage of the card with XMMS. I get an error > >message that pops up that says > > > > o You sound card is configured properly > > o You have the correct output plugin selected > > o No other program is blocking the sound card > > > >OK, I checked /dev/dsp and it is there. Also, I'm doing this as root, > >so I don't think it is a permission problem. I've searched the net > >via google and the debian mail archive and either I'm missing points > >people have made, or .... I dunno. I'm stuck. > > I've heard good things about alsaconf (in alsa-utils), although I've > never used it myself. It will attempt to automatically generate a > configuration for your card. > > You'll need to execute it as root.
Thank you. I gave it a shot. It says it could not find a pNp pci device and complained that it couldn't find the snd module. OK, that makes sense because I compiled the alsa stuff directly into the module and my sound blaster live card is embedded in the system board. So still no sound. Thanks for your advice. -- <Eric Cheney> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sociostat.org/~eric/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
