On Sunday 09 October 2005 21:47, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, October 9, 2005 5:35 pm, Christopher Sawtell said:
> > On Sunday 09 October 2005 15:52, Matthew Whiting wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Still haven't had any success getting sound working with ubuntu. I did
> >> ask some questions a while back but unfortunately didn't get far
> >> afterwards. Current status is I've just tried working through the
> >> instructions on
> >> http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Intel&card
> >>=.& chip=440MX%2C+i810%2C+i810%2C+i810E%2C+i820%2C+i820&module=intel8x0
> >> as suggested by Nick in a post a few months ago.
> >>
> >> Get as far as installing the alsa packages and inserting modules into
> >> kernel, then try running alsamixer and am told /alsamixer: function
> >> snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device/. Not sure how to
> >> proceed.
> >>
> >> kernel is 2.6.10-5-386, alsa driver 1.0.9b, and according to lspci audio
> >> details are
> >> /0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
> >> Definiti on Audio Controller (rev 03)
> >> /
> >> Cheers
> >> Matthew
> >
> > try ( no guarantee ) using the real alsa driver modules in which case
> > stop the alsa daemon
> > modprobe snd_intel8x0
> > modprobe snd_ac97_codec
> > restart the alsa daemon
> >
> > otoh it may want the oss simulation driver modules so use these lines
> > modprobe i810_audio
> > modprobe ac97_codec
> >
> > If you get sounds you will then have to change the config for module
> > loading
> > on booting. I do not know how to do that on Ubuntu.
>
> what is the alsa daemon? Doesn't exist afaik! There is an init script on
> gentoo, and presumably other systems too, but it doesn't start a daemon,
> it loads kernel modules.
So it does. I misinterpreted the lines at the start of the alsasound file
in /etc/init.d/
# alsasound This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# the ALSA sound driver.
To me that would appear to indicate a daemon. Thanks for putting me straight.
> so, which alsa packages did you install? and how did you install them?
* media-libs/alsa-lib
Latest version installed: 1.0.9
* media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa
Latest version installed: 0.8.11
* media-plugins/xmms-alsa
Latest version installed: 1.2.10-r3
* media-sound/alsa-headers
Latest version installed: 1.0.9b
* media-sound/alsa-tools
Latest version installed: 1.0.9
* media-sound/alsa-utils
Latest version installed: 1.0.9a-r1
Gentoo Portage.
and since then the kernel has changed and I cannot get the snd_* modules to
produce sounds so I reverted to the OSS-compatible ones which work fine.
( WCPE is broadcasting some really rousing stuff by Rachmaninoff )
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CS
