Re: Sound system

[MillTek]

MillTek wrote:
MillTek wrote:
MillTek wrote:
Jeff Elkins wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:31:38 -0500, MillTek wrote
 

Kent West wrote:
 

MillTek wrote:
  

Hi,
As a Linux noob, I have tried many many googling sessions to get 
sound working on the Sarge 2.6.6 installation I have. My machine 
has an Abit NF7-M motherboard with and NForce2 chipset. I tried 
the Music player in the KDE menu (rhythmbox) and when I do I get 
the following message;

osscommon: Unable to open /dev/dsp (in use ?)
Doers anyone have any idea exactly what steps I should follow to 
get it wotking?  I do know that the machine will work in 2.6.5 
as I tried it under Knoppix and it was OK.

I would greatly appreciate some help.
Thanks
Jim

      

My guess is that the sound module is not being loaded. Try 
running "modconf" and selecting the correct module for your sound 
chipset.

    

Kent,
I loaded and ran modconf. There are a number of sound drivers 
being loaded. What else can I try?

Thanks,
Jim
  


I wonder if it's a permission issue. When root can you play a sound 
from the
command line?  Try 'play something.wav' as root.  You may need to 
apt-get
install sox.

Jeff
 

OK,
I installed alsa-oss. Used the KDE control center to switch to using 
ALSA and tried playing an mp3. It made sound for about 1 second and 
stopped, however the timer kept going as if it was playing.  Had a 
power failure so had to reboot. Now I get an Informational artsmessage;
Error while initializing the sound driver
device: default can't be opened for playback (no such file or 
directory)  The sound server will continue using the null output 
device.

We're nearly there!!
Jim

I found these enreies in my syslog - if this helps.  The system does 
seem to find the sound chips.

Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel:
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: handlers:
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: 
[__crc_set_user_nice+1036933/6470000] (i810_interrupt+0x0/0x67 
[i810_audio])
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: Disabling IRQ #20
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller 
supports 6 channels.
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 
channel mode.
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 
ALG32 (ALC650)
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, new EID 
value = 0x05c7
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, DAC map 
configured, total channels = 6
Jun 19 14:13:21 localhost kernel: i810_audio: setting clocking to 48648

Jim
I went to install alsa-base from apt-get and I got this result;
apt-get install alsa-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
 alsa-utils
Suggested packages:
 apmd alsadriver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 alsa-base alsa-utils
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/175kB of archives.
After unpacking 614kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
field name `contains' must be followed by colon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Anyone have any idea what this is about?
Jim


Answered that one myself. Appears that a file called 'available' in 
/var/lib/dpkg is badly corrupted (had a power failure here today. Does 
anyone have any idea where I can get a fresh copy or how to generate one?

Jim
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