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Hi everyone
I am new to linux and have installed slack 10.1 from this months linuxFormat magazine.
I have managed to configure mst things (gfx, wine, access to ntfs drives etc) but am totally stuck with sound.
I have read pages, followed guides but to no avail, so I am hoping that someone will please be able to point out where I am going wrong.
My soundcard is a Terratec EWS88MT ------- ice1712 chipset I believe
nyghtowl@snake_creeps_down:~$ cat /etc/modules.conf
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
When I have tried to specify the ALSA driver in KDE, i get a sigserv fault with no backtrace details... then the same error when I try to specify another driver method.
I know the card is fine - I am still using it in winblows with cubase. Ideally, I would like to ditch cubase and begin to record my music in linux... hence the OS change.
Some may say "why not go for an easy-peasy distro like mand or RHfed blah blah"
Well, thing is, I won't learn much if everything is set up for me already now will I?
I know this is a big question, but if anyone who replies and recognises the errors etc, could you please help to point out the lines of code/errors to help me understand a little better?
Thanks in advance
Peace-Out
Last edited by snakecreepsdown; 05-09-2005 at 07:31 AM.
== Checking if Sound Volume muted ==
vol 100, 100, P
line 100, 100, P
mic 100, 100, R
cd 100, 100, P
igain 100, 100
line1 100, 100, P
dig1 0, 0
phin 100, 100, P
phout 100, 100, P
video 100, 100, P
I assume so, but have you tried 'alsaconf' to see if it recognized the card and sets it up for you?? Likewise, have you tried 'alsamixer' to see if it will pull it up and you can tinker with the volume controls??
aye
Have just run alsaconf as root
then alsamixer and set all channels to max - still the sound of silence
the card/chipset appears in alsaconf - hmmmm there are two entries for the card.
There's an entry for the onboard sound too - which I find confusing as it is disabled in BIOS (o_O)
this is probably something really dumb that I have not done... some step I have missed or somethin'
Anyway...thanks for the help so far (-.o) , I sure hope a solution will present itself else I'll be forced to stick with cubase and thus winblow$
on a different note, its a 2.4 kernel... should that make a difference?
though you cranked up the mixers, did you make sure un-mute them?? Slackware by default mutes the speakers.. on the bottom of each mixer bar, Master and PCM being themost important, make sure you have the infinity symbol rather than 'MM', if you do, simply hit the 'm' key to unmute..
I had the same problem after slack 10.1 install. After some searching and posting it in dropline forums...I ended up solving the problem. I believe 10.1 comes with alsa 1.0.8 however I had a working soundcard with alsa 1.0.5 in slack 10. Hence i removed alsa 1.0.8 and compiled and installed alsa 1.0.5 from source. My sound card is working perfect now.
I've alway's had to work to get my laptop sound working in Slackware.
I usually just recompile alsa, and then add snd-intel8x0m to /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Do the volumes reset themselves everytime you go into alsamixer? Make sure you using
{edit} is that TAINTED up near the top of any significance?
your nvidia module is what is tainting the kernel. all it means is that non-gpl code is loaded into the kernel, and if you experience problems the kernel team probably won't help you much ( hard to see what is causing a problem if part of the code is closed and you cannot see the internals.)
just moved back to alsa (+utils etc) 1.0.5 and still nada on the sound.
When i mute/unmute channels in kmix ican see it happening in alsamixer in terminal...
i am totally confused and will prolly give up tonight lol
thanks for the suggestions so far, everyone
freakyg::: analog and digi ins/outs
___J ::: thanks for that info... at least I now know not to worry about it as I think you're saying its nvidias closed code? arent you? if I understand correctly
Last edited by snakecreepsdown; 05-09-2005 at 03:40 PM.
after a nights sleep, I decided to start the day by installing DROPLINE-Gnome
guess what...
with a minor bit of tinkering, I can now get sound from the outputs on the breakout box WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
which is wierd... cos when I had it running in SuSe I could only get sound from the lil jack (for headphones) at the rear of the card... the breakout-box was not configured.
So, all I have to do now is verify that the other 6 outs and 8 ins are working
oh yes,,, and MIDI too - shouldn't be too taxing on the ole grey-cells
Then finally I'll be downloading Jack, ardour and some other funky music tools and all shall be sorted
thing is... I'm using an OSS drv...
please, is ALSA better?
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