Hello, On 2/26/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2006 02:20, "Ducky Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about '[gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still > no sound': > > Hello, > > > > The sound card works fine with Ubuntu in my other partition. I've > > followed Gentoo's Alsa Guide and currently with kernel modules. But no > > sound comes out when I play music or any other things. > > Are use using alsa provided by the kernel, or the kernel modules provided > by alsa-driver? What version of either the kernel or alsa-driver? What > version of alsa-lib? >
I'm using the modules provided by the kernel, which is 2.6.15. alsa-lib is 1.0.10. > Can you play wav files through aplay? There should be some samples > in /usr/share/sounds if you don't have other .wav files. When I aplay a file, it shows: ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:900:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:831:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave aplay: main:544: audio open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device > In addition to being unmuted are the outputs actually turned up? Output means? > You appear to have the right modules loaded, but those dmesg errors are > likely because the userland is having problems talking to the kernel. Is there any workaround? > > My 'uname -a': > > Linux rolling-machine 2.6.15-nitro3 #3 PREEMPT Sun Feb 26 13:23:00 MMT > > 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel > > GNU/Linux > > What's -nitro? Is that your own kernel version string or is that like > ck-sources? It's nitro-sources. I've used gentoo-sources, and I'm now trying nitro-sources. Thanks a lot. DZ -- [email protected] mailing list
