On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: >>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote:
[...] >>> My motherboard is an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with integrated >>> Realtek ALC850 codec. [...] >> That looks OK on first sight, assuming you indeed have an intel8x0 card. [...] > The kernel was compiled from source, obtained from ftp.kernel.org. > I began with the config file in /boot from vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 , and > edited with 'make xconfig' I still had sound after installing and booting > this kernel, although I had to use alsaconf to remove the sound modules, > followed by udevtrigger to install them. > > attached in order is output from your three requests above, > > lspci | egrep -i 'audio|s(ou)?nd|media' > > 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio > Controller (rev a2) AFAICT, snd_intel8x0 is indeed the correct driver for this card. If you google for this lspci output you find a MEPIS page where they claim that the card works without problems with this driver. > cat /dev/sndstat > cat /proc/asound/cards That looks good, too: One audio device, one midi device, a timer, two mixers. (Disclaimer: I have no experience with midi devices, but I don't see why a midi device should interfere with your sound output.) > Trying to run speaker-test gives a series of errors of the form: > Alsa lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy OK, so some process might be blocking the sound devices; most probably a sound daemon. (Are you running Gnome or KDE?) Post the output of this: lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp' -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
