ALSA NForce2 issues

punkrocher · 04-18-2004, 11:12 AM

Hello, ive searched around the forum on this topic for a while now, and im still having a few problems concerning sound.

My problem is this:

ALSA properly detects my NForce2 audio chipset, and when selected, audio does not work. Alsamixer has been set up correctly. I followed the directions on the chipset page at alsa-projects.org verbatem. The only program i can get sound to work in, is XMMS. And here is the kicker, only as root. Ive done a chmod 666 on all necessary things in /dev. But still, no sound in XMMS as user. It says something along the lines of Checking Sound Card to see if its properly configured. I at least want to get XMMS playing as user for now. Getting sound to work with KDE and other apps can come later.

Thank you for your help!

-nick

tank728 · 04-18-2004, 11:23 AM

Did you run alsamixer as user or as root? That might have something to do with it, because I think it works like X. Each user can have there own separate window manager/desktop environment. So it could just be the default settings for user, which is muted.

-tank

punkrocher · 04-18-2004, 11:39 AM

First of all, i ran it as root. But i don't think that really matters, since it wont play the files at all as User. It doesn't play them muted. it doesn't even load the song, and says something about checking my sound card configuration, or something is blocking my soundcard.
thanks!

-nick

EDIT: i got XMMS to work as user... i was unaware that modules.conf was not used in 2.6.4 and modprobe.conf was used in place. but still, there is no sound for other programs, such as GAIM or the boot up sound in KDE...

also...

i tried running aplay sound1.wav as user and got this msg..

Code:

nick@punk:~$ aplay sound1.wav
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1057: (snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p failed: No such device
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:868: (snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:507: audio open error: No such device

i ran ./snddevices as root, but that changed nothing. any clues?