Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-21 Thread Martin McCormick
Jude DaShiell writes: > There are log tracks if you run dmesg|grep -i snd you may find > them. Not quite, but my face is still bright red. dmesg just reports that Plug&Play found both cards but tells nothing else. I had looked in syslog and found that dispnp also writes the same messages

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
There are log tracks if you run dmesg|grep -i snd you may find them. On Sat, 21 May 2016, Martin McCormick wrote: Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:39:42 From: Martin McCormick To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules Resent-Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 18:40:01 + (UTC

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-21 Thread Martin McCormick
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:55:54AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I had a thread going on this list with the subject of > > "Plug and Pray; my Life with Linux Sound." Thanks to several good > > answers, I am on the right track to fixing a problem but t

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-21 Thread cbannister
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:55:54AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I had a thread going on this list with the subject of > "Plug and Pray; my Life with Linux Sound." Thanks to several good > answers, I am on the right track to fixing a problem but there > is, of course, one more question. T

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-19 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 18 May 2016 18:54:35 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > Many thanks and I've learned a lot in the last few days I'm glad that things works for you now, I didn't follow this thread from the beginning, so I hope the original problem is now solved too. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Michael Lange writes: > Adding snd-cs4236 to /etc/modules doesn't help? Ha!! I totally forgot to look at that file. It's creation date is in May of 2009 when I upgraded the system to whatever the version of Linux was at that time. I am not sure it was even squeeze but I had simply re-installed Li

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-18 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 18 May 2016 16:17:43 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: (...) > If I reboot, however, Card 1 which is the usb card > automatically returns as it should but there is no Card 0 until I > manually run > > modprobe snd-cs4236 > > at which time it and all necessary modules for it come bac

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Michael Lange writes: > Hi, > I never had any trouble at all with the OSS compatibility modules. > Not sure where this statement comes from, if it is an old source, maybe > they meant the old, true OSS modules (which have been removed from the > linux kernel quite some time ago, though), where thi

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
If it doesn't, modprobe is reading blacklist files after whitelist files and this is for you and I suspect many other users highly undesireable and counterintuitive behavior. Better to read and act on blacklist entries first then do those in whitelist and override what's necessary. This princi

Re: OSS Versus ALSA Modules

2016-05-18 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 18 May 2016 07:55:54 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: (...) > One must not have both OSS sound modules and ALSA sound > modules active when installing sound cards. (...) > By the way, having both OSS and ALSA modules cause lots of > weirdness that makes no sense at all. I never