leaving for canada in 6 hours.. need snd help fast plz!
 

just did a fresh install of slackware w/o any GUI-based packages, just using a console and was about to listen to a mp3 using mpg321 and i got a

"can't find a suiteable libao driver. (is device busy?)"

I have done nothing to the system other then install slackware and logged in. Whats the next step?

ANY help would be great, im in a rush and figured this would be the best place for the quickest help.

thanks guys!

Hi Ben!

sndconfig

Hope that's a bit of a help.

Did a quick googling for ya, libao is a Cross Platform Audio Output Library, so maybe you didn't install it?

don't have sndconfig but maybe a quick rpm of it would work... lemme go check

You can plop in your Slack install CD and type pkgtool to get to a list of packages to install. Then maybe you can locate both of them.

Here is another option...

I installed nothing but ultra basics on one of my systems, and used the static of this program to play CD's. I did have to have the kernel configured for my soundcard, and that was all it took. No sndconfig, or any 'extra' packages.

Anyway, go here to get that program:
http://www.stack.nl/~brama/mp3blaste...?page=download

Get the static!

sndconfig needs a whole bunch of dependencies :( lemme look at your new posts.

thanks for the help C ;)

No problem Ben, I like helping out people who do things that I recently did. It makes my adventures worth something besides their self-worthiness. ;)
How you been doing?

Not to bad. Been busy with work, working on a PHP/SQL/XML intranet inventroy yadda yadda yadda...

You on AIM? gaim, kit, jabber and/or everybody can get you connected, easier to chat there :)

my screen name is: motionsiren
hope we can talk through there, been meaning to get in touch with you...

Cool! Yes I am, it's the only chat program my mom can use at work so I had to set one up. I can't do it at work though, they keep us locked down on things like that. I am CLCurvin777 on there. I will add you when I get home though.
Any luck with the sound yet?

Cool

Oh, but at work I was able to get mIRC working. Don't know if that would be any help as I have only messed with it twice and only know how to connect to #linux on (I think it's called) openservers.

K, will message you when I get back from Canada then (the 31st)

Im downloading all the dependencies needed by sndconfig but... theirs also a dependency listed...

kernel >= 2.4.0 is needed by sndconfig-0.68-4

maybe trying an older version of sndconfig will help out... i gotta get this down quickstyle, i'll be gone for two weeks and I haven't even packed yet... still trying to get sound! :( kinda funny tho.. you can definetly tell im geek.. lol

What version of slack is it?

And what dependencies are you having problems with? I am thinking that you might want to get the sndconfig from the slack cd, it might not have the same issues, and might work better.

Or, you can try that mp3blaster program I was talkin about in the earlier thread... I didn't run into any dependency issues or any problems at all when I ran the static.

looks like im going to have to recompile my kernel. Something i've never done before nor have the time to do this evning :(

How come? What version? (uname -r btw)

Slackware 8.0

uname -r

2.4.18

You should have no problems with that player I am talkin about then. No support for your soundcard? Does lsmod not show anything? modprobe it and see what happens

lsmod

soundcore (autoclean)

is what it gave, plus the other things.

BTW, god bless you for all your help. ty ty ty

what would i give the modprobe?

/dev/audio ?

No, you would give it whatever your sound card is. example for SoundBlaster Live!
modprobe emu10k1

So what soundcard do you have?

you know... i've been assuming it's a soundblaster but... i've been looking on google and haven't found any info on it other then a replacement soundcard is $5

It's a Toshiba Satallite Pro 400CDT (90mhz version)

It's the ESS688 sound card , I will be right back, gonna find the module name. Try modprobe esssound, not too sure though, be right back.

# modprobe esssound
modprobe: Can't locate module esssound

modprobe snd-card-audiodrive1688

And it claims to be SB compatible, so if for some reason that modprobe doesn't work (which according to alsa that's right), then try:
modprobe snd-card-sb16

You might be able to remove the "card" part from each of those if it doesn't work that way.

same :(

im out of ideas...

Hmmm
modprobe snd-pcm1-oss But that probably won't be of any help either. http://new.linuxnow.com/docs/content...a-sound-5.html was where I got some of that.

What's the error when you do a modprobe sb16?

# modprobe snd-card-sb16
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-sb16

http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/

It says that if that is your soundcard (which someone giving a kernel how to had your laptop and it came with the ESS688, that's where I found it), then the es1688 module should work. What did modprobe es1688 comeback saying?

Without the snd-card part

all say the same. :\

Damn, yeah, sounds like the kernel recompile will be what's needed. You could get it started, and then run
make dep &&
make modules &&
make modules_install

while you pack. :)
The && will keep it from going further if there is an error during compile, but if no errors, then you will be ready for make bzImage or whatever and then cp to /boot the bzImage, edit lilo to reflect the changes, and then give the modprobing a run.

heres hopeing i got time! :)

thank you for yours.

Better get a packing, 4 hours left.
Talk to you sometime after the 31st. :)

Cool, have a good trip dude. And good luck on the kernel bit.
See ya

1 hour kernel compiling

2 hours packing, double check your luggage, don't bring your
T-10, T-15 screwdriver along

another 1 hour to reach the airport. Can you make it? Need shower? :D

Don't know if I you have already compiled your kernel or not, but this is what you might need:


1) modprobe sound
2) modprobe <sound card driver>

I ain't near my linux box right now, but if I recall correctly this is where you can find all the sound drivers that the kernel supports:

/usr/var/linux/drivers/sound

the driver directory is located in the directory whjere your kernel is.

Hope this helps.

P.S. almost forgot, if you do a modprode then you will need to add the two modprobe lines at the end of the /etc/modules.conf file (Not sure of the file name though)