I'm trying to get alsa to work with my SB AWE 64 gold sound card, RH7.1.
My motive is to get the Muse midi software to work with it. Muse doesn't
seem to be able to use any of the alsa devices it finds. midi00, midi0,
MIDI 0-0, OPL3 Port, Emu8000 Ports 0-3. midi0 says "Device or resource
busy, MIDI0-0 says "Play: Resource temporarily unavailable", the others
say "OK", but no sound from any of them. Muse works OK with it's built
in software synth.
I've installed the alsa-driver-0.9.0beta8a, alsa-lib-0.9.0beta8a,
alsa-oss-0.9.0beta8, alsa-tools-0.9.0beta8, alsa-utils-0.9.0beta8
components. For the drivers I did
./configure --with-isapnp=yes --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes
--with-cards=sbawe
make install
I set up /etc/modules.conf as the instructions and examples I found. I
seeing lots of snd-* modules loading. xmms and aplay work. What I didn't
understand during the install/configure was the use of the snddevices
script. Line 30-31 of the INSTALL file says...
4) Run the './snddevices' script to create new sound devices in /dev directory.
Skip this step, if you have a kernel with the DEVFS support.
OK, the first time I installed alsa I ran this script (I hadn't read
this part yet), but since I'm pretty sure my kernel has DEVFS support so
on the second try (make clean, reconfigure as previous, make install), I
added the lines suggested at the end of the INSTALL file to
/etc/devfsd.conf...
LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd
REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.root 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.root 660
I think this might be a /dev problem. How can I check/test for proper
device creation/configuration? Here's my sndstat, let me know what else
might be useful...Thanks, John
[root@ceora asound]# pwd
/proc/asound
[root@ceora asound]# cat sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta8a emulation code)
Kernel: Linux ceora 2.4.3-12 #1 Fri Jun 8 13:35:30 EDT 2001 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&5
Audio devices:
0: DSP v4.16 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices:
0: OPL3 FM
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: mixer00
[root@ceora asound]#
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John S. Weber
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