Never mind! I found the problem. /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf was missing. Working perfectly now with both ALSA and OSS.
Ingo > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to run my rather complex Pd patch on an Up Board (x5-Z8350 > CPU,32GB eMMC, 4GB RAM). > The board has the RPi formfactor but is much more powerful. > > The up board comes with ubilinux (64bit debian version especially for the Up > Board). > After spending a lot of time with ubilinux and the normal debian9.1 (64bit) > I > couldn't stop it from constantly crashing when I opened my patch - for some > unknown reason. > As long as I was using ubilinux sound (alsa) was working at least. Not so > with > debian, though. > > > After giving up with the 64bit OS I installed debian 9.1 (32bit) and it's > running > perfectly stable as before with my old amd hardware. No more crashes! > All externals (except for "iemlib/mp3play~" and "toxy/tot" [not to be found > anymore]) are working as expected. > However, with the normal debian alsa is NOT giving me any sound! > > Then I compiled the kernel with oss but oss is not producing any sound > either. > > I installed alsa-utils, alsa-base and alsa-tools-gui. > I removed pulseaudio and I made sure alsa-utils would get started on startup > (which it doesn't by default). > > > Here is what I get from pd when turn on alsa: > > ALSA input error (snd_pcm_open): No such file or directory ALSA output > error (snd_pcm_open): No such file or directory > > The (external USB-)sound card does show up in the drop down menu of Pd's > audio settings for selection, though. > So it is regognized both by pd and the operating system. I tried several > different USB sound cards with the same result. > > Here is what I get when I try to open alsamixer from the LXTerminal: > > error when opening mixer: No such file or directory (original in German: > Fehler beim ?ffnen des Mixer-Ger?tes: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht > gefunden) > > > When I use portaudio I'm actually getting sound but it is very quiet as the > sound output is turned down by the system during start up. > I can't find any way to turn the volume of the sound card up, though since I > cannot open any mixer. > > Does anybody have an idea how I can get alsa to work? > Debian tells me that "alsa-utils" and "alsa-base" is already installed with > the > newest version (1.1.3-1 and 1.0.27+1). > > > Thanks, Ingo > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
