On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:46, Ron Murray wrote:
>
> The system as it is:
> - Machine is a Compaq 7000US (1.2G Athlon, 512M RAM)
> - Debian woody system with current packages
> - Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card (uses CS46xx driver)
> - All correct alsa modules seem to be loaded (rather than bore people
> with yet another module list), including snd-pcm and snd-pcm-oss
Oh good, I have one of these with 256MB RAM... works you say ?
( Let me bug you for any special kernel compile directives )
Can you play DVD's ?
> I first noticed the problem when I tried to run Real Player. It
> hung halfway through its startup sequence. Other apps using PCM sound
> did equally weird things, and trying to cat a random file to /dev/dsp
> (i.e. the usual test) hung as well. Finally discovered esd was hogging
> /dev/dsp, so I disabled it. Now these programs don't hang any more,
> but they don't play any pcm sound either. I've tried adjusting mixer
> settings till I'm blue in the face, but no sound appears (although
> some background noise changes slightly: it's as if the PCM generator
> is conected to the mixer, but not producing sound).
cd /dev
ls -al dsp ; ls -al aud*; ls -al mix*;
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 31 03:09 dsp -> /dev/dsp0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Dec 31 03:09 audio -> /dev/audio0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Dec 31 03:09 mixer -> /dev/mixer0
> device at /proc/asound/dev/pcmC0D0p. This resulted in:
> > khufu:~# cat /root/dpkg.list > /proc/asound/dev/pcmC0D0p
> > cat: write error: File descriptor in bad state
I don't believe you are supposed to do that. Try catting to /dev/xxxxx
devices.
I believe your problem is probably mixer settings - UNMUTE the PCM.pwd
Again, from my /etc/rc.local, at the very end.
------------------------------------------------------
# load ALSA OSS sound modules
if grep -s -q "^alias sound " /etc/conf.modules ; then
echo "Loading OSS sound module"
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
amixer set Master 50% unmute
amixer set CD 100% unmute
sleep 3
fi
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
???
-AEF
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