Stefan Deibel wrote: > Hi, > After upgrading to Debian/unstable I want to get sound with ALSA. I install > alsa-source and compiled the alsa-driver for Soundblaster 128 PCI (Ensoni1 > 1371) it using kernel 2.4.3. After installation lsmod shows > > snd-seq-midi 4816 0 (autoclean) (unused) > snd-seq-oss 30400 0 (unused) > snd-seq-midi-event 3520 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] > snd-seq 47360 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss > snd-seq-midi-event] > snd-pcm-oss 20176 0 (unused) > snd-pcm-plugin 15920 0 [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-mixer-oss 5216 0 [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-card-ens1371 2384 1 > snd-ens1371 13264 0 [snd-card-ens1371] > snd-pcm 38912 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] > snd-timer 11040 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] > snd-ac97-codec 27104 0 [snd-ens1371] > snd-rawmidi 12128 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] > snd-seq-device 4528 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq > snd-rawmidi]snd-mixer 30576 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 > snd-ac97-codec] > snd 45264 4 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss > snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss > snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi > snd-seq-device snd-mixer] > soundcore 4112 7 [snd] > > This seems to be all right for me but I don't get any sound with aplay. > I also installed the alsaplayer and alsaplayer-alsa packages. But when I > call alsaplayer from within Gnome's menu > nothing happens. Starting alsaplayer from the terminal yields > > AlsaPlayer 0.99.33-pre2 > (C) 1999 Andy Lo A Foe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others, see > AUTHORS file for details > > and nothing happens. > Does anyone have ideas what is missing? >
If you were using alsa 0.5x before, try looking in syslog (or kernel log) for some error messages. I recently tried 0.9+0beta3-1 (the latest version present in sid, IIRC), and my sound card stopped working (i've got an integrated VIA 686a). The problem was about some options probably no more supported (snd_pbk_frame_size and snd_cap_frame_size) with the new alsa driver. I've not looked further, have only removed the options, so it will need some investigation, anyway the sound now is working (but with esd, i've a very disturbing noise in the left channel...) Andrea
