Before compiling alsa-driver 1.0.15rc3 I decided to look more closely about what is wrong with alsa-driver 1.0.14 since it did partially work with a stock Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5. Staying current with the packages has broken sound support. It originally worked by producing sound only through the headphone jack and not through the speakers.
It's interesting to find these kernel modules loaded, which I believe is corrrect. $ lsmod | grep hda_intel snd_hda_intel 337192 0 snd_pcm 94344 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd 69288 10 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device snd_page_alloc 11920 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm The thing that is clearly missing are the devices. $ ls -l /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi ls: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory ls: /dev/mixer: No such file or directory ls: /dev/midi: No such file or directory crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 2007-09-29 10:46 /dev/sequencer The instructions at the URL below make it clear that if I have devfs then I don't need to create those devices. http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-hda-intel NB: If you are using drivers before 0.9.4 then you need to run: ./snddevices The snddevices script sets the permissions for the devices it creates to root. If you use devfs then you should not run the snddevices script. Otherwise run: chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi Now it is clear that Gutsy Gibbon doesn't use devfs as it has been replaced by udev. I guess that udev and alsa-driver 1.0.14 don't work together well because the latter depends on devfs. I will next create those devices that udev doesn't and see if sound works. -- Dell Vostro 1700, ich8 no sound https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136412 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
