Thanks. I just thought it might be useful to know what PROVIDE is complaining about *before* starting a fresh emerge of alsa-driver.
> 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 > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
