Re: [newbie] Let there be sound please?!?

[Marcia]

Thank you for your help. I changed my /etc/modules.conf to what was suggested by someone on this list to:

alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233
above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss

and I turned off the soundserver where arts was enabled. After that now I have the startup system sound and probably I will have other system sounds when I apply them. However, there is no sound for my mp3's yet and no midi. I checked my sound driver in control center and this is what I got:

Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.9rc2 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.4.19-16mdk#1 Fre Sep 20 18:15:05: CEST 2002 i686

Config options:0

Installed drivers:
Type 10:ALSA emulation

Card config:
VIA 8233 at 0xdc00, irq 9

Audio devices:
0:VIA 8233(DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

MIDI devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7:system timer
Mixers:
0: mixer00

How would I enable the synth devices and midi? What else can be done to enable my mp3 players, etc?

Thanks for any help here.

Sincerely,

Marcia


John Richard Smith wrote:

ET wrote:

On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

Marcia wrote:

Dear All,

I have setup my /etc/modules.conf as suggested for via onboard 8233
sound and still no sound for mp3, midi, most system sounds. Is there
anything else I could check or do? Would I be better off to get the
latest alsa source and compile myself? I do not want to go that far if
it will not make a difference. I know this can work. I do not give up
easily. It certainly worked in 8.2 except I had to do some interesting
adjustments to make it work. This time those adjustments do not work
in LM9. If I could get this sound to work it would not be a bad
distro. I am having alot less problems with it than LM8.2 except for
sound and usb.:( Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. Thank you for all of your suggestions everyone. They did
not work yet, and I do appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Marcia

I don't know why it does not work for you, my via 8233 chip works fine
for me
on my msi mobo, on both LM8.2 and LM9.0 beta2.
I'm not sure from the above if you are saying it does not work at all or
just
some eliments of the sound systems.If later , did you enable aRts , because
you will not get multichannel sound streams without it, on the otherhand I
do not have any mp3 files to play, and so cannot vouch for mp3 use.
On the otherhand Mplayer encodes in mp3 and that works fine Does
your via8233 chip come with AC97 codec as well. I don't exactly know what
AC97 codec is supposed to do, I think it is some additional eliment of the
via 8233 sound chip and is also there to aid multichannel sound streams.

So currently what is your modules.conf entries like,
and do you have aRts enabled ?

John

and lets see the output of "cat /proc/interrupts" as root

OK, here it is,

[root@localhost root]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 629782 XT-PIC timer
1: 2173 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 21373 XT-PIC serial
5: 31 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci
6: 95 XT-PIC floppy
8: 3893 XT-PIC rtc
10: 960 XT-PIC VIA 8233 Audio
11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
12: 216470 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 36365 XT-PIC ide0
15: 26 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
[root@localhost root]#

Looks ok to me , what do you think ?
John

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