Rod Butcher wrote:
greetings from sunny Northmead !
I've cruised along with a 2.6.18 kernel that I compiled myself, for a
while now, on a Gigabtye board with NVidia NForce 430 southbridge, AMD
Athlon X2 cpu. For various reasons I've had to upgrade to the 2.6.24.3
kernel, so I compiled it with Mandrake's 4.02 gcc compiler. No problems,
up and running with X OK. But no ALSA sound now.
<SNIP/>
But ALSA can't detect the sound card. All apps return error messages
saying device not found. E.g. :
bash-3.00#aplay --list-devices
aplay: device_list:207: no soundcards found...
bash-3.00# alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
directory
Yet the device shows up in /proc :-
bash-3.00# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xf5100000 irq 22
<SNIP/>
So - why no /dev/snd, do I really need it for ALSA, and why was it
automagically there for my old kernel ? Any doco around on this that
goes into nuts and bolts ?
thanks
Rod
No idea if this will help or not but you could try checking your
asoundrc file
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc
if you haven't already. For comparison sake, I have /dev/snd/ which has
a whole pile of devices from each card in it (eg pcmC0xxx, pcmC1xxx, etc
- I have 2 sound cards) and a sndstat file.
Fil
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