I am trying to get my Soundblaster 16 VibraX ISA running. Searching this list for days was not a success. I run Debian Woody with a self-compiled 2.4.18 kernel. ALSA is 0.9.0beta12. I did not use alsaconfig since it did not work for me. That´s what I did by hand:
/etc/modutils/alsa: snip --------------------------------------------------------
# Example Configuration of ALSA 0.9 for Debian GNU/Linux
alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
#alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss #disabled to isolate problem #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
#alias snd-card-0 snd-dummy #alias snd-card-1 snd-serial #alias snd-card-2 snd-share #alias snd-card-3 snd-virmidi
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 alias sound-slot-2 snd-card-2 alias sound-slot-3 snd-card-3
# You must need to add your own card setteings below. # or use alsaconf to setup in menu form.
alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16
options snd-sb16 snd_index=0 snd_dma8=1 snd_dma16=-1 #VibraX has just two 8bit DMA
#alias /dev/snd* snd-sb16 # tried to figure out if devfs is the problem #alias /dev/sound* snd-sb16
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lsmod looks like this:
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(...)
snd-sb16 4480 0 snd-sb16-csp 15072 0 [snd- sb16]
snd-sb16-dsp 5280 0 [snd-sb16]
snd-pcm 46880 0 [snd-sb16-dsp]
snd-sb-common 5976 0 [snd-sb16 snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp]
snd-opl3-lib 5056 0 [snd-sb16]
snd-timer 9152 0 [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-hwdep 3488 0 [snd-sb16-csp snd-opl3-lib]
snd-mpu401-uart 2560 0 [snd-sb16 snd-sb16-dsp]
snd-rawmidi 11648 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3888 0 [snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]
snd 24104 0 [snd-sb16 snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp snd- pcm snd-sb-common snd-opl3-lib snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-mpu401-uart snd- rawmidi snd-seq-device]
(...)
soundcore 3556 7 [snd tvmixer btaudio]
(...)
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/proc/asound/sndstat says:
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Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta12 emulation code) Kernel: Linux server 2.4.18 #1 Wed Sep 17 22:14:40 CEST 2003 i686 Config options: 0
Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config: Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1
Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG # this looks important to me
Synth devices: 0: OPL3 FM
Midi devices: 0: MPU-401 (UART)
Timers: 7: system timer
Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
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Alsamixer works fine, but does not store the settings, which is not too important right now.
When I use aplay -D default xyz.wav, it says:
SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed: Input/output error
I found a hint, that the bttv-driver interferes with alsa, but even after unloading all bttv-related modules nothing changed.
If you need any additional information, please let me know.
Thanks Ingo
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