Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > ALSA is an absolute BEAR to install!! >
Only for newbies ;-] Is their a specific reason that you need two os's? Couldn't you just format your second HDD and mount it via /etc/fstab? Then you will have more usable space and won't have to configure everything twice. I have three HDD's and they work together just fine. Maybe you have a wierd MainBoard though that won't allow this kind of wacky idea. Feel free to contact me direct if you want some assistance with that. > Is there any comprehensive documentation anywhere discussing the internals > which might be useful to someone trying to solve a problem such as the > follwoing? > The alsa-howto or the docs in the alsa-docs dir which you can find online somewhere round the main web page or get them from cvs. > I have a Dell Latitude cPI laptop with 2 hard drives. Both of them have > Debian GNU/Linux unstable on them. The smaller of the two drives is nearly > maxed out and I'm trying to set up the 2nd drive so that it works properly. > > The internal sound card is Crystal cs4236. I found a config for this box > with this card on the Internet and set up my modules config file accordingly > on both drives. /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5 on the old drive is the same as > /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 on the new drive. All modules load and sound works on > both drives, but only partially on the 2nd drive. > > On the original, smaller hard drive, the kmix and other mixers show a rather > excessive array of controls, the leftmost of which is a master volume. All > sound appears to work (although there are apparently other problems with the > CD so I can't check it explicitly). Notably, signals directed to /dev/dsp > work properly so I can play wav files, mp3 files and such. The tab on kmix > says CS4237B. The CD doesn't work for music, but this may (or may not) be > another matter. > > On the 2nd drive, I get a much smaller set of controls, with no master > volume control. The leftmost control is the Synth control and is mirrored > in the KDE panel single volume control, which is of no use at all. Worse > than this, I get no pcm sound at all, even though apparently signal is being > introduced to the system (aRTS meters show it when I play a wav file). The > microphone works, as does the CD player, so apparently there is _some_ > interface to the card which is working, although this may be only a hardware > interface. The kmix tab says "MIXER00". > > Apparently the config of the mixer is expressed via /dev/mixer or some other > inteface independent of KDE since I get the same control selection with > aumix from a vt. > > The old drive has alsa version 0.5.10b, the new drive is using 0.9+0beta7-2. > Is this a difference between drivers? Is there a configuration to change > what's available on the mixer interface in 0.9? Is there something I can do > to get pcm sound to work on the 2nd drive? > > Is there any documentation w. regard to various parameters which can be set > in the modules.conf file which will control the various alsa modules? > > >From a user's perspective, alsa is a very complicated black box, and unless > I want to go digging around in the code there's no way to know what's going > on. I've done as much professional studio work as computer work, so I have > high standards as to how a sound control interface should work, and strong > expectations that it _should_ work :-) > > -- > Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key > FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at > 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> > http://www.fmp.com | | > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com - For the discerning hardware connoisseur. http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/Linux_Audio_Users_Guide/ ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
