Tom, Have you tried just starting fresh again? When I have sound issues a take it from the start again (start being the ALSA how to :) )
Doc On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 21:12, Tom Nicholson wrote: > After getting alsasound working, I broke it and I believe it's because of > how I answered etc-update. After an emerge, there was a statement that > I should run etc-update to resolve which config file to use. I did, and I > think that broke alsa probably because I was guessing how to answer > etc-update. > > I've unmerged alsa-driver and am still getting an error message at boot > up. It's early in the boot process and goes like this: > > Starting devfsd > Mounting tmpfs at /mnt/.init.d... > Caching service dependencies... > PROVIDE: it usually is not a good > idea to have more than one > service provide the same virtual > service (alsa-modules)! > Activating swap... > > Anyone got a clue what is going on here? Where I should look? > References to prev problem are below. > Tom > > > _______________________________________ > Subject: [gentoo-user] SOLVED sound opinions? > X-Rcpt-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Smite-CRC: > A$Xq3Rbw$0#1UX8c9V#1dFjL6V#egq32r$19gXA1p#gOh8b9#1i6Kmtp# > 1AIwBDj > Status: U > > Thanks to 'nealbirch' and Bret Holcomb for suggestions. > > The solution was that I needed to emerge the alsa-driver (as well as > rebuild kernel with only M support). I wanted to be sure there wasn;t > something overlooked before rebuilding kernel. The quirky part is how I > overlooked the distinction between alsa-driver and whatever the other > driver is that 'make modules modules_install' makes. I had it in my head > that the selection in 'make menuconfig' built the 1 and only sound driver > needed for the card and that alsa was built on top of that so I just skipped > the step in alsa docs where it says > env ALSA_CARDS='ens1371' emerge alsa-driver > So after doing that it plays beautifully. > > _________________________________ > > 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 > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
