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| Author: | yhan [ Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Sound card installation (sb16 compatible) |
Hi Question regarding the backend and the sound card installation : I have an installation problem with my soundboard, ok that's a very old one, an SB16 compatible. How can I force alsa to detect it and to use it ? When the sound (/etc/init.d/Sound) is starting, I got that error msg : aumix: error opening mixer The backend is giving this error : Cannot open DSP '/dev/dsp', dying. open: No such device Could not detect audio blocksize Thanks for you help Yhan |
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| Author: | Dinki [ Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:38 pm ] |
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You should be able to do '/etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig' to set up your '/etc/modutils/alsa-0.9-knoppix' settings file. If I'm not mistaken, I had to edit this script as it was looking for 'lspci' at '/sbin/lspci' instead of '/bin/lspci' . Just make that change and all should be well. Good luck |
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| Author: | adrianbc [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:19 am ] |
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I also just put in an old sound card (sound blaster AWE 32 ISA). I ran alsa-autoconfig but I still don't have any sound. When I try to watch a recording I get a blank screen. After I kill the process, I get a bunch of Error opening audio device (/dev/dsp): /dev/dsp: No such device player: Can't open audio device: /dev/dsp My files were encoded using a PVR250 - which I am able to verify on another machine (win xp). Also, aumix won't start for me either. |
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| Author: | Dinki [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:29 am ] |
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Without turning this into an alsa support forum, can you post the contents of '/etc/modutils/alsa-0.9-knoppix' and 'lsmod' ? |
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| Author: | adrianbc [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:44 am ] |
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I don't have anything at /etc/modutils/alsa-0.9-knoppix . Here is my lspci output: root@mythtv:~ # lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. KT7/KT7-RAID/KT7A/KT7A-RAID Mainboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: e1000000-e2ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 0000 Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 Bus Master ATA133/100/66/33 IDE Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at e000 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 I/O ports at e400 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 I/O ports at e800 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) Subsystem: Netgear FA310TX Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=256K] 00:11.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown device 0016 (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 7 Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0322 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: PROLINK Microsystems Corp: Unknown device 1152 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 7 Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0 |
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| Author: | Dinki [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:01 am ] |
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adrianbc wrote: I don't have anything at /etc/modutils/alsa-0.9-knoppix
Well that's a problem. That's the file that specifies what module(s) will be used for sound. It looks like autodetect is not working, so you will probably want to manually configure it. If you're using a SB16 PCI sound card, check out: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/do ... le=ens1371 from that page, you should make your /etc/modutils/alsa-0.9-knoppix read something like: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 # module options should go here # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Then you'll have to do a 'update-modules' followed by a 'modprobe snd-card-0' . Then when you do a 'lsmod' (not 'lspci') you should see the 'snd-ens1371' module loaded and listed under 'sound' . Then you'll want to fire up 'alsamixer' and adjust your volume, capture source, etc ... I'm not an ALSA expert, but I have had a fair amout of practice with configuring it when I added my second sound card. |
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| Author: | adrianbc [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:20 am ] |
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I have an ISA card the Sound Blaster AWE 32. Does this still apply? adrian |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:25 am ] |
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My guess is that you will have to go to google for that one unless someone here has a better memory than me. I held on to my awe32 long past it's time, but I still gave it up over two years ago. It worked fine, but I can't remember what all was involved in getting it working at the moment. |
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| Author: | adrianbc [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:40 am ] |
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I found an SB Live on my windows box which I could probably swap in. I imagine that this will be much easier to setup. Tier 1? |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:07 pm ] |
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yes the sblive will be autodetected and configured when you run the sound script. |
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| Author: | cesman [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:35 pm ] |
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You'll need run the alsa-autoconfig script followed by update-modules... |
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| Author: | adrianbc [ Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:33 pm ] |
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Thanks. That appeared to do the trick. I have sound (and video) now but the sound is really faint (barely audible with the sound cranked up). I tried adjusting the channel volume in alsamixer but I can't save the levels. From what I understand, this is normally done with ... "alsactrl store" but that doesn't work. aumix is another option - but it doesn't show all the channels on the live card. |
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| Author: | Charles [ Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | My Turn! |
I have a Creative SB 128, it is detected as a ens1371 card in alsa-0.9-knoppix. I can adjust all the mixer slides to no avail. I have no audio in: Tux Racer, an imported DVD and an imported CD. I followed the posts in this thread and in the alsa-project site and I am now suffiently confused and still without sound. Any thoughts, or commands I can try to give more valuble info? |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:36 am ] |
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I've heard lots of people having problems with the soundblaster pci128's I would go with another card if possible. |
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| Author: | saruman [ Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:43 am ] |
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I had issue a while back with an onboard SB-16 compatible sound card. Finally got it working (after trying everything I could find on this and other boards) by using RedHat's sndconfig. There are debs available. I don't remember where I found them though. |
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