On Sunday 08 October 2006 16:34, Steve Evans wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 20:53, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > On Sunday 08 October 2006 15:44, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > Did as you suggested and removed alsa from the kernel and compiled > > > alsa-driver but It didn't work. The only thing that changed was the > > > name of the chip it detected, same as yours. I still only have Master > > > with alsamixer and no sound not even quitely I'm using kernel > > > 2.6.17-r8 and the 1.0.13 versions of alsa > > > > > > Matt > > > > This might be part of the problem: > > When I try to play an mp3 with madplay I get the following error > > audio: /dev/dsp: no such file or directory > > Am I missing something from the kernel? > > > > Matt > > I'm not sure what would cause that, udev should be creating the device. On > my system /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/sound/dsp. Does that exist? > > I assume that your user is in group audio, so that you have access rights > to /dev/dsp? > > Steve
Fixed the problem. I found the following solution on the gentoo forums. It worked for me. I think the problem was with the lack of alsa-oss :-) Thans for your help Matt 1. Use the alsa-driver ebuild instead of the alsa drivers in the kernel. Unmerge alsa-lib, alsa-utils, alsa-oss and any other alsa stuff you have. 2. Before you emerge alsa-driver, configure your kernel as per the instructions on the alsa guide using the method for alsa-driver users i.e. JUST sound support and nothing else. Then remove your kernel modules directory /lib/modules/whatever-your-kernel-is, rebuild your kernel and install it (make clean, make && make modules install, copythe bzImage file to /boot or however you choose to e.g. link it for your boot loader). 3. Clean up /etc/modules.d/alsa. Well, just delete it, to be honest. 4. Reboot with your new clean kernel. You'll probably want OSS emulation, so before emerge'ing alsa-driver, check your USE flags contain both alsa and oss flags. The alsa-driver ebuild will pick up on this. Emerge alsa-driver. You should pretty much be back on track with the alsa guide now, just emerge alsa-utils (should pull in alsa-lib), and alsa-oss as well. Then run alsaconf again. Run alsamixer afterwards. Add alsasound to the boot runlevel (not default). Reboot. -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
