It appears Turgut and I share the same (or similar) problem. As I have
noted in previous posts, my own alsa sound driver appears to be loading
properly during boot, yet I have no sound. When I try
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sound restart
I get several OK responses as the mixer settings are saved, the sound
driver unloads and then reloads, and the mixer settings then reload.
/var/log/messages shows no errors during loading of alsa sound driver and
mixer settings.
When I run lsmod, my output is almost exactly the same as Turgut's (quoted
below).
When I launch RealPlayer as a user, I get the error
"Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it."
But when I run it as root, I get no such error message. However, sound
still does not work.
/proc/asound/cards correctly shows my sound card.
I ran sndconfig, but it told me my card is not supported -- same as
Turgut, and we both had working sound before the "upgrade" to kerner
2.2.19!
Any experts out there who might be able to help?
Dave
> Greetings. Ever since I upgraded to the new kernel, 2.2.19-4 (?) ,
> whatever was available on the MandrakeUpdate, I lost the sound support
> on the Thinkpad A20m. I also lost the modem support, but managed to get
> that back :)
>
> Kernel RPM installation went fine, as outlined by that 'security' web
> page of Mandrake, but still sound is lost. I since uninstalled alsa
> drivers with rpm -e, and installed the newer tarball. I still have no
> sound, meaning things complaining about "cannot open /dev/dsp"
>
> lsmod shows:
> Module Size Used by
> snd-pcm-oss 34032 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> ppp_deflate 40896 0 (autoclean)
> bsd_comp 3904 0 (autoclean)
> ppp 20496 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp]
> slhc 4480 0 (autoclean) [ppp]
> ltmodem 349856 0 (autoclean)
> lockd 45456 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> sunrpc 61648 0 (autoclean) [lockd]
> ds 6384 2
> i82365 22272 2
> pcmcia_core 45760 0 [ds i82365]
> usb-uhci 19056 0 (unused)
> usbcore 43536 1 [usb-uhci]
> snd-mixer-oss 8720 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-cs46xx 67184 0 (unused)
> snd-rawmidi 11072 0 [snd-cs46xx]
> snd-seq-device 3920 0 [snd-rawmidi]
> snd-pcm 46400 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cs46xx]
> snd-timer 9280 0 [snd-pcm]
> snd-ac97-codec 18128 0 [snd-cs46xx]
> snd 28800 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cs46xx
> snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
> soundcore 2608 0 [snd]
> nls_cp437 3920 4 (autoclean)
> vfat 9648 2 (autoclean)
> fat 31776 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
> supermount 13072 2 (autoclean)
>
> .../proc/asound/cards says 'there are no soundcards'
>
> if I do a alsasound restart , this is what I get:
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart
> Shutting down sound driver: /usr/sbin/alsactl: error in loading shared
> libraries: libasound.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
> snd: Device or resource busy
> done
> ALSA driver is already running.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks, -turgut
>
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