Try this again. I have also added some additional information to the end. On Thursday 16 August 2001 01:20 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > We have a fairly stock Debian/testing system. Layered over this is > the 0.9.0beta6 ALSA packages (driver,lib,utils) and Quake3 Arena. We > also have a via686a sound card built on an Aopen-63k-pro motherboard. > > The sound for all applications (xmms, kscd, realplay, etc.) works as > expected except for Quake3. I have read about the problems with > Quake in this newsgroup, but I would like to ask again for current > knowledge. > > We receive the message that it cannot find the /dev/dsp device. This > is strange because all the required modules are loaded and seem to be > working as they should. > > Does anyone know what can be done to correct this problem? I have > attached the relevant configuration files. > > Also, is 0.9.0beta6 more current than 0.5.11 ? > > # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. > # > # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are > # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with > # a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored. > NVdriver > # for alsa-sound > soundcore > snd-card-via686a > snd-mixer-oss > snd-pcm-oss > snd-seq-oss > > # /etc/modutils/sound: entry in /etc/modules.conf > # ALSA portion > alias char-major-116 snd > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a > options snd-card-interwave snd_index-0 snd_id="82C686A" > # OSS/Free portion > alias char-major-14 soundcore > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > 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-0-8 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
Output from lsmod showing modules loaded, but not playing Quake3 sound: lsmod Module Size Used by snd-seq-midi 4624 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 26880 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3296 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 46752 1 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 47024 0 snd-mixer-oss 11216 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-via686a 7632 0 snd-pcm 58688 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-card-via686a] snd-timer 11472 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 3744 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd-rawmidi 14304 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4592 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 24176 0 [snd-card-via686a] snd 34464 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-card-via686a snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 4080 6 [snd] NVdriver 655424 0 Output of cat /proc/asound/sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta6 emulation code) Kernel: Linux jackal 2.4.8 #8 Tue Aug 14 23:18:54 EDT 2001 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: VIA 82C686A/B at 0xdc00, irq 5 Audio devices: 0: VIA 82C686A (DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: 0: MPU-401 (UART) Timers: 7: system timer Mixers: 0: mixer00 -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
