Can anyone suggest why my sound doesn't work or where to look for further clues?
I've built a gentoo box from older parts to learn with. I wanted just command line stuff to study servers like apache, proftp, samba, etc. so no gui. I remembered there's a sound card in the system and I can't figure out how to make it work. I enabled sound support and the soundcore.o and driver are built into the kernel (rather than as modules). See snippet below from .conf file. I've followed the gentoo website directions on installing alsa and done the emerges and conf file tweaks. alsamixer/amixer fails with error message can't connect with sound_ctl() which I take to mean it can't talk to the sound driver. The directions in the sound howto say to try cat endoftheworld >/dev/dsp That fails; just sits there like a hang, no sound. mpg123 seems to play, but no sound output. The card and speakers worked when it was a winx so no reason to suspect any problem there. Thanks, Tom ------------ snippet from kernel .config file: # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=y # CONFIG_SOUND_ALI5455 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_BT878 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set # CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10K1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y # CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set --------------------- relevant portion from dmesg: es1371: version v0.30 time 13:24:17 Mar 20 2003 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x08 es1371: found es1371 rev 8 at io 0xe400 irq 5 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY19(Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev A) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
