Re: can't play sounds on 2.6.7

From: chabral (chabral_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:41:31 -0300

Andreas,
  Does your modules.conf file has something related to your soundcard? Mine
is empty.

 --
chabral

"Andreas Janssen" <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:cihflk$8n7$05$1@news.t-online.com...
> Hello
>
> (Follow-Up set to comp.os.linux.setup, please don't crosspost
> excessively)
>
> chabral (<chabral@hotmail.com>) wrote:
> > "Andreas Janssen" <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> escribió
> >> chabral (<chabral@hotmail.com>) wrote:
> >>> I've just installed Slackware 10.0 with the optional 2.6.7 kernel,
> >>> and recompiled it to support ALSA sound and support for my
> >>> VIA8233/A (module snd_via82xx) as well as backward compatibility
> >>> with oss. The following modules load without error:
> >>> [...]
> >>> snd_via82xx
> >>>
> >>> In order to configure sound, I ran:
> >>> # alsamixer --> to unmute the card
> >>> #alsactl store --> so save volume parameters
> >>> and checked with "# amixer get Master"
> >>>
> >>> But (yes, here is the "but" section :) ) .... I've no sound! When I
> >>> type:
> >>> # aplay sample.au
> >>> the aplay app freeze until I kill it with ctrl-c. No error, no
> >>> sound.
> >>
> >> Are the ALSA libraries installed?
> >>
> > Yes, libraries and utils are installed. However, there is a version
> > difference:
> >
> > Driver version:
> > cat /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/include/sound/version.h
> > #define CONFIG_SND_VERSION "1.0.4"
> >
> > Libs and Utils version: 1.0.5
> >
> > Can that be the problem?
>
> I have the same versions on my system (Debian Sarge), and on my system
> sound works without a problem. Maybe you could try and use the oss
> drivers instead. All you have to do is to unload all the ALSA drivers
> (snd-*) and load the oss sound driver for your card. It should be
> included in the standard kernel packages.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
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