Re: Sound, dual soundcards, second attempt (better I hope)

From: Sybren Stüvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 01/08/04


Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:15:26 +0100

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 04:19:26 +0000, paul wrote:

> I first emerged alsa, then later in an attempt to solve this issue
> emerged a newer kernel and re-compiled it and all the modules and
> switched to it. I have also emerged alsa-tools.

The correct order is to compile a kernel first, and then emerge
alsa-driver.

> The following is /proc/asound
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jan 8 08:15 Live -> card0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jan 8 08:15 Live_1 -> card1

So Alsa recognises the two cards. Good.

> Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20a, 04:54:52 Dec 29 2003
> devfs_register(unknown): could not append to parent, err: -17
> devfs_register(unknown): could not append to parent, err: -17
> devfs_register(unknown): could not append to parent, err: -17

This is bothering me, though.

> I am under the belief that I should have /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1 and
> I do not

First of all, you should have /dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/dsp1. The
/dev/dsp* things are just symlinks, and of second importance. What is
in /dev/sound?

> I hope this is enough information that someone can help me figure
> out what's wrong.

Your setup looks right to me.

Sybren

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