Hey there, I'm having a bit of a problem with ALSA on my Compaq Presario 1247, which uses the VIA 686a sound chipset. Even after enabling the modules, and making sure the volume controls were unmuted and up to an acceptable level using alsamixer, I cannot play any sound files. The PC speaker works, and I can play CD audio, but whenever I try to play sound files using play or mpg123, it just freezes with no error message. I'm currently running Slackware Linux 8.0 w/ kernel 2.4.14, with the latest stable ALSA drivers, libraries, and utilities. In /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, I have lines for "modprobe snd-card-via686a" and "modprobe snd-pcm-oss". PCM and other audio channels are unmuted and full volume.
My /etc/modules.conf is as follows: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 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 keep The results of lsmod are as follows: Module Size Used by snd-pcm-oss 17792 1 snd-pcm-plugin 13808 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4608 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-via686a 6512 1 snd-pcm 28000 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-card-via686a] snd-timer 7568 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 22400 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd-mixer 21632 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ac97-codec] snd-mpu401-uart 2176 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd-rawmidi 8896 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3520 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd 29712 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-via686a snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3248 4 [snd] I'm pretty sure I missed something fairly stupid... if anyone has any ideas and can let me know what I'm doing wrong, please let me know. :) I don't wanna have to go back to Windows 98 SE (which I know has working sound). :( Thanks in advance... -- D'Arque Bishop -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ravenloft.net/~drkbish "For a dark man shall come unto the House of God, and the darkness shall be upon him, yea, even within him." -- from Noctropolis: Night Visions _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
