Folks, I have been trying for the last couple weeks to get alsa working on an embedded 486 computer called the Soekris net4501 under a Debian distro called pebble. The sound card is an Aureal Vortex au8810 PCI card. My development system is a Dell laptop running Redhat 9. I have recompiled the kernel 2.4.22 from kernel.org source and compiled alsa from alsa-project.org source.
I am compiling for the target system by setting prefix to /usr/pebble/usr and mcpu=i486. This seems to put the object files in the right place, but I found that I had to install both in the host system and the target system in order for the library headers to get installed correctly for the next compile when upgrading alsa versions. The problem I have is that while mpg123 can play a song (at least it looks like it's playing), I cannot hear it because it's muted. The apps aplay, aconnect and amixer all report such errors as 'invalid CTL default' when invoked. The OSS layer appears to install correctly - are there OSS apps I can try to use? I get the same error message no matter what I do to the system. I have tried alsa 0.9.8 and 1.0.0rc2. I have run snddevices, I have checked that the modules are all installed with lsmod, I'm running as root, /proc/asound is all there, etc. No joy. The biggest problem I have is that I cannot tell, from the symptoms, where to look for the source of the problem. The sound card configuration tree is parsed silently, so there is no way to see what's wrong with the configuration or if it's even being configured at all. Everything looks right, but it just doesn't open the sound device. Is there some way to turn on a verbose mode on amixer, for example, to see what it attempts to load for the sound card info? Thanks for your help. ===== -- Bart __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
