Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-18 Thread Martin McCormick
deloptes writes: . . . Much good information. Many thanks. > use an oss wrapper - there is how to on the alsa wiki. I certainly will look in to that as there are still many things going on that shouldn't be but things are better at least on the wheezy system. For the first time since July 15 of

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-18 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > deloptes writes: >> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf >> >> ## ALSA portion >> alias char-major-116 snd >> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel >> alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio > > Thank you. While researching what these lines do, I ran > across what is most likely the true na

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-17 Thread Martin McCormick
deloptes writes: > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf > > ## ALSA portion > alias char-major-116 snd > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel > alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio Thank you. While researching what these lines do, I ran across what is most likely the true nature of this problem although I

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-16 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > It's possible that there is a jumper in the wrong place > on the card causing a contention issue since PNP sees it but > nothing else seems to run right. > > Thanks for any constructive ideas. /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf ## ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alia

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
alsa is probably a subsystem now of pulseaudio unless all of pulseaudio is off of your system and out of your $HOME directory structure. For that reason, you may need to use pulseaudio tools and they may or may not help you out. Another possibility would be jack2 which is what serious audophi

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound Better Description

2016-05-16 Thread Martin McCormick
No, I haven't fixed it, but I think I know a systematic description of the problem. What has gone wrong when dmesg shows all the sound cards one has installed on the system in Plug&Play, there are kernel modules for them all, but we come up short in alsa as one or more of the cards does no