* m laks [110429 04:59 -0700]: > I have been having this same trouble of no working sound for > months. > > So recently, after installing the latest kernel from sid and > seeing no benefit, I thought based upon web posting of other > people that the problem was the older released alsa drivers. So I > went directly to the alsa web site and installed the latest > alsa-drivers. It has had no effect. same sound output on the > installed debian. Thus I don't think that we can attribute the > problem to the new alsa drivers which are newer than the sid alsa > version. > > I did what you said to do. rmmod the snd-powermac and did the > install of the kernel you asked for. Now I get the following: > > snd_aoa_codec_tas 13459 0 > snd_aoa 15648 1 snd_aoa_codec_tas > snd_aoa_i2sbus 20887 0 > snd_pcm_oss 44965 0 > snd_mixer_oss 19254 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm 68590 2 snd_aoa_i2sbus,snd_pcm_oss > snd_page_alloc 9121 1 snd_pcm > snd_seq_dummy 4759 0 > snd_seq_oss 33902 0 > snd_seq_midi 8352 0 > snd_rawmidi 22252 1 snd_seq_midi > snd_seq_midi_event 7904 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi > snd_seq 53422 6 > snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_timer 21631 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq > snd_seq_device 8861 5 > snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq > snd 55632 13 > snd_aoa_codec_tas,snd_aoa,snd_aoa_i2sbus,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device > soundcore 8067 1 snd > snd_aoa_soundbus 6701 1 snd_aoa_i2sbus
Looks reasonable
>
> however now when i try to play an mp3 file:
> mlaks@B1:~$ mpg321 my-singing.mp3
> High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
> Version 0.2.12-1 (2010/07/01). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew,
> now maintained by Nanakos Chrysostomos and others.
> Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
> THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
> Title : mysinging Artist : me
> Album : stuff Year : 1994
> Comment : This and thousands more Genre :
>
> Playing MPEG stream from my-singing.mp3 ...
> MPEG 2.0 layer III, 64 kbit/s, 22050 Hz mono
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
What tells
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
> ALSA lib conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
> returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned
> error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:4170:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned
> error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:4649:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
> directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2190:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?)
Is libao installed?
$ dpkg -l |grep libao
Is oss-compat installed?
$ dpkg -l |grep oss-compat
Can you hear sound by playing a mp3 via mplayer or others?
Elimar
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