Re: Sound Issues

Brice D Ruth Sat, 21 Jul 2001 05:33:14 -0700

Hi there. I'm short of time right now (have to get to the Farmer's Market early :)) - but later today, I can sit down and work through this again - I'll be on ICQ again and we can go at it from there. If that sounds good, let me know.

Brice

Dippy Black wrote:

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I have been gone for awhile again. Brice you were trying to help me with the 
sound when I had to take off. I hope you have some more ideas. 

I ended up reinstalling mandrake as I botched trying to upgrade X and 
couldn't get it to run again so I am starting from scratch. I installed the 
arts packages and the alsa packages.

Here is my lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
ppp_deflate            44000   0  (autoclean)
bsd_comp                4768   0  (autoclean)
ppp_async               8464   1  (autoclean)
ppp_generic            23072   3  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
macserial              38256   2  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss            45392   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-pcm                59488   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer              11888   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-mixer-oss          110!
56   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd                    29776   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer 
snd-mixer-oss]
soundcore               4880   0  [snd]
supermount             39072   4  (autoclean)

Here is my modules.conf:
pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias eth0 gmac
alias usb-interface0 usb-ohci
alias serial macserial
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-awacs
# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

Hope you can help me out with this. I type amixer and get:
amixer: Mixer attach hw:0 error: No such file or directory   

Here is another error message I generate:
[root@localhost dippy]# service alsa restart
Doing alsactl to store mixer settings...                   [  OK  ]
Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.5.11):          [  OK  ]
Starting ALSA version 0.5.11:insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.4-6.2mdk/alsa/snd.o: No 
such file or directory
insmod: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.4-6.2mdk/alsa/snd.o failed
 awacs 0.                                                  [  OK  ]
Doing alsactl to restore mixer settings...                 [  OK  ]


I tried the dmasound package that Stew put up. I got static after I ran that 
so I reverted back.



On Friday 13 July 2001 09:51, you wrote:

Hi Dippy,

The relevant portion of my lsmod listing is:

snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq
snd-seq-device
snd-pcm-oss
snd-pcm-plugin
snd-mixer-oss
snd-card-awacs
snd-mixer
snd-pcm
snd-timer
snd
soundcore

 From here - you can see that you're missing alot of the alsa modules -
snd-card-awacs, snd-mixer (this is why you can't use amixer),
snd-pcm-plugin, snd-seq, snd-seq-device, snd-seq-midi-event,
snd-seq-oss.  I'm not entirely sure why these modules aren't loading for
you ... you might want to check and see that (a) you have them and (b)
that the versions of alsa/aRts you have match what I had listed (I'll
list again for convenience):

libarts2-devel-2.1.2-2mdk
arts-2.1.2-2mdk
libarts2-2.1.2-2mdk
alsa-lib-devel-0.5.10-2mdk
alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk
alsa-lib-0.5.10-2mdk

Also - what kernel are you running?  I'm running Stew's 2.4.4-6.2mdkkernel (if you don't have this one, grab it from
ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/

Let me know what's going on! ;)  We'll get this working yet!  Btw - my
ICQ# is 710189, if I'm on, feel free to message me and we can go at this
interactively.

-Brice

Dippy Black wrote:

I think I am making progress. Stew was trying to help me on ICQ earlier
today. I was getting a bunch of unresolved symbols in the alsa modules
during boot. Installing the libarts and arts rpms took care of all of
that. I was trying to look at the alsa web site for help. I still do not
have sound. I saw where the default is mute. I typed amixer as they
describe but I get: [root@localhost dippy]# amixer
amixer: Mixer attach hw:0 error: No such file or directory

When I check my modules with lsmod I get:
[root@localhost dippy]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ppp_deflate            44000   0  (autoclean)
bsd_comp                4768   0  (autoclean)
ppp_async               8464   1  (autoclean)
ppp_generic            23072   3  (autoclean) [ppp_deflat!
e bsd_comp
ppp_async] macserial              38256   2  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss            45392   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-pcm                59488   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer              11888   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-mixer-oss          11056   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd                    29776   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mixer-oss]
soundcore               4880   0  [snd]
supermount             39072   4  (autoclean)

Here is my /etc/modules.conf:

pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
# alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_awacs
alias eth0 gmac
alias usb-interface0 usb-ohci
alias serial macserial
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-awacs
# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 !
snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

I don't know if any of this helps. I am just trying to give any info that
would be helpful. Let me know what you think.

On Thursday 12 July 2001 21:01, you wrote:

Hi Dippy,

No - I don't believe I did.  I don't think I had any sound whatsoever.
As far as alsa & aRts goes, the following RPMs are installed here:


libarts2-devel-2.1.2-2mdk
arts-2.1.2-2mdk
libarts2-2.1.2-2mdk
alsa-lib-devel-0.5.10-2mdk
alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk
alsa-lib-0.5.10-2mdk

Probably anything w/ -devel you won't need (then again, maybe you will
if you need to recompile any sound apps ;).  And as for XMMS - the
version on the CD is BAD ... get Stew's recompile from the mirrors
(should be in Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/ - just look for a
version more recent than yours.

See if that gets you going.  If not - write back.  Seeing as that I have
the exact same machine you do (assuming your's is a 400MHz iMac DV) -
I'm sure we can get this figured out ;)

-Brice

Dippy Black wrote:

I will try adding that. I assume I need to download the alsa drivers
first and install them. Just curious. did you have the static problems
at the beginning in kde and absence of any other sounds.

On Thursday 12 July 2001 16:47, you wrote:

Hi Dippy,

I also have an iMac DV and I've gotten sound to work fine.  I'll write
more in a bit (I'm on my way out to dinner) - but basically, I'm using
the aRts and alsa systems.  I have the following lines in my
/etc/modules.conf:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-awacs
# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

Get that in there and see if that gets you going.  If not - wait for my
next installment ;)

-Brice

Dippy Black wrote:

I thought since it had been awhile since it was first brought up, I
would bring it up again. I have no sound at all on my Imac DV. If
starting up with the KDE desktop I get a really annoying blast of
static. If I use gnome there is nothing. I get no system sounds at
all.

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