On Tuesday, 1 June 2004 at 21:21:34 +0900, B. L. Jilek wrote: > Hi Eric! > > On Mon, 31 May 2004, Eric Cheney wrote: > > > 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. > > There is a snd.o module. This module is loaded by the emu10k1 module > when I load it on my system. Maybe you didn't get it compiled in? > > If your just testing using xmms you should make sure that xmms is > using the correct Output Plugin in the Preferences. Have you tried > playing a wav file with the 'play' command? > > Personally I just put emu10k1 in my /etc/modules file and my SB Live > works great. Last time I used alsa it was more of a pain than it was > worth.
Thanks. I did that. It worked. I'll have to figure out what I was doing wrong with ALSA later; in the mean time I'm up and running. Thanks everyone! -- <Eric Cheney> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sociostat.org/~eric/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
