On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Terry Sheridan wrote:
> 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 > Hi, If you add your user in the audio group and run snddevices, I think, your problem will be solved ------------------------------------------------------- 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
