Does *everybody* have problems getting ALSA to run? Has anyone got an
ALS4000 card to work? What about SB16? I am getting frustrated and
desparate to get sound to come out of my speakers.
I was using an ALS4000 card and having no success, and I read somewhere
that ALSA didn't fully support it anyway. So, I bought a Sound Blaster
16 PCI PnP card and tried again. My speakers are still sadly silent.
Following are various data, outputs, and files that might be of interest
to someone gracious enough to help me.
I'm running:
Debian Woody
i586
Sound card:
sb16 pci pnp
*or*
als4000 pci (pnp?)
(I only have room enough for 1 of these inside my box.)
My ALSA version:
0.5.12a (compiled from source)
The command I last used to configure alsa-driver sources before
compiling:
debian:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.5.12a# ./configure
--with-sequencer=yes --with-isapnp=no --with-cards=sb16
And after compiling, here was the output from alsaconf:
Loading driver:
Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.5.12a): (sb16)
Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50%
The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected
correctly.
And here's the output from lsmod for sound-related modules (I *think*
that's all that were loaded after '/etc/init.d/alsa start'):
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
<snip>
snd 30848 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 3460 0 (autoclean) [snd]
<snip>
Here's the output of 'modprobe snd-card-sb16':
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: init_module: No such
device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: insmod
snd-card-sb16
failed
And here are the contents of /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5 (also occurs in
/etc/modules.conf):
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.3b ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sb16
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
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
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660
snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
options snd-card-sb16 snd_index=0 snd_id=CARD_0 snd_port=0x220
snd_mpu_port=0x300 snd_irq=5 snd_dma8=1 snd_dma16=5 snd_mic_agc=0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
Here's an additional part of /etc/modules.conf, which is seen after the
above section
# Debian ALSA modules path
# Do not edit this unless you understand what you're doing.
path=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/alsa
Finally, here is a recent portion of /var/log/messages (similar is seen
during boot-up):
Dec 16 14:28:25 debian kernel: snd: Sound Blaster 16 soundcard #1 not
found at 0x220 or device busy
Dec 16 14:28:25 debian kernel: snd: Sound Blaster 16 soundcard #2 not
found or device busy
Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give.
-Curtis
