I have an AMD Athlon that was gifted to me and it has a C-Media sound card that came built on-to the motherboard.
Code:
LittleGeek dev # lspci | grep C-Media
0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
LittleGeek dev #
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System Information
As far as I can tell, portage says I have everything installed as far as ALSA excpt for media-sound/alsa-driver becaue I have the ALSA Drivers compiled into the kernel.
Code:
LittleGeek ~ # emerge -vp alsa-lib alsa-oss xmms-alsa alsa-firmware alsa-headers alsa-utils alsamixergui alsa-driver
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc3 -doc -jack 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.10_rc3 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-plugins/xmms-alsa-1.2.10-r2 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-firmware-1.0.8-r1 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10_rc3 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.10_rc3 +nls 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-sound/alsamixergui-0.9.0.1.2-r4 0 kB
[ebuild N ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3 -doc +oss 0 kB
Total size of downloads: 0 kB
LittleGeek ~ #
I am able to get some sound ..... via XMMS/XINE/WINE.
I am *NOT* able to get sound via games such as Chrumium B.S.U.
Code:
xaero@LittleGeek ~/public_html/images $ chromium
randomizing.
SDL initialized.
video mode set (bpp=32 RGB=888 depth=16)
-OpenGL-----------------------------------------------------
Vendor : Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
Version : 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)
Extensions :
GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multitexture
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_blend_color
GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract
GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
------------------------------------------------------------
1 CDROM drive(s).
ERROR! Could not access CDROM device 0 :
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such device
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! ATTENTION !! - one or more errors were encountered during audio check.
!! Audio will be disabled.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...startup complete.
high scores:
01/01/2000 nobody 250000
01/01/2000 nobody 200000
01/01/2000 nobody 150000
01/01/2000 nobody 100000
01/01/2000 nobody 50000
exit.
wrote config file (/home/xaero/.chromium)
done.
Download the latest version of Chromium B.S.U. at
http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium
xaero@LittleGeek ~/public_html/images $
as you can see it is looking at /dev/dsp and /dev/sound/dsp which arn't my sound devices. After doing some experimenting, I've found that /dev/dsp1 /dev/sound/dsp1 are my sound devices. This was acheived by doing the following command.
Code:
xaero@LittleGeek ~ $ cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sound/dsp1
xaero@LittleGeek ~ $ cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sound/dsp
bash: /dev/sound/dsp: No such device
xaero@LittleGeek ~ $
'catting' to dsp says no such device but catting to dsp1 and I get static on the speakers. I am also unable to acheive sound from applications such as GAIM or thunderbird (thunderbird is supposed to provide a styalized ding when new mail is received, instead I get a PC-Speaker DING that is load and just sounds very bad and ugly).
So given the information provided can someone help me get my sound working?
C-Media & ALSA Sound Issues
