Hi everyone. Though some of the following is Debian specific, you might be able to help me on this one:
I spent roughly three weeks trying to get ALSA to work on my system. I have sound, but quirks in ALSA are driving me nuts. Let me explain what has happened thus far. 1. I've been running Debian Potato. I couldn't get the Debian source 0.4 packages to build nor the last 0.9 release at ALSA's site, so I used 0.5 at the ALSA's site. Had to get over the learning curve of dealing with amixer and alsactl which never really quite worked smoothly. 2. Next challenge: Updated to Woody and thus tried to mainstream my software to correspond with the packages. Again tried to use the Debian ALSA source and header packages - both the 0.5 release and the 0.9 release. Got nothing but compile errors from them. Played musical builds (custom and otherwise) and pulled out strands of hair. 3. Finally configured the Debian 0.9 module sources with the "--with-card" specification. Did a "make-kpkg modules" and compiled my sound card modules successfully. 4. Installed: (1) alsa-base package (2) Installed debian module package built from the "make-kpkg modules" command. (3) Used modconf and turned on snd-cmpci (for my C-MEDIA 8738 card) and OSS compatibly modules (mixer, pcm). (4) Ran the ./snddevices script in the source package (5) Installed libasound2 (6) Installed alsa-utils 5. Installed some bells and whistles: alsaplayer with the alsaplayer-alsa plugin. 6. Everything seems to work hunky-dory: amixer works, alsactl stores and restores settings, and alsaplayer pops up and plays music through the ALSA plugin. 7. Reboot or shut down computer and this is what happens: Run amixer and I get "amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory." If I run alsa store, I get "/usr/sbin/alsactl-0.9: get_controls:432: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory." If I run alsa restore then it s "/usr/sbin/alsactl-0.9: set_controls:896: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory." If I run alsaplayer, I get: snd_pcm_open: No such file or directory (default) /usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/libalsa.so failed to load I could not find a suitable output module on your system. Make sure they're in "/usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/". Use the -o parameter to select one. failed to load output add-on. exitting... If I run ./snddevices in the driver source directory again, these bugaboos go away ... until I restart computer. If you have an idea of what the problem is, your help would be greatly appreciated. I rather not add some silly workaround script to boot-up for reinstalling my sound devices everything single time I turn on the computer. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
