alsa "can't find" onboard audio
I'm trying to get realtek ALC850 onboard HD audio to work on Fedora 10/64. I downloaded and built the latest alsa driver, apparently including intel-hda support and the realtek codec. However, I cannot test the module (or the card) because alsa keeps saying things like this:
Code:
[root] modprobe snd-hda-intel index=0 id=sndcard
[root] aplay this.wav
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:583: audio open error: No such file or directory
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[root]alsactl init sndcard
alsactl: init:1725: Cannot find soundcard 'sndcard'...
[root]alsactl init 0
alsactl: init:1725: Cannot find soundcard '0'...
All the modules do load. It could be because of some configuration file somewhere, but the alsa documetation I have found is very poor and fails to explain the software in detail (unless you really need to know how to move a mixer slider with your mouse). I'm also presuming that alsactl was intended to replace alsaconf, but again, the alsa-project seems to have determined that end users do not need real documentation.
Does anyone understand how this is supposed to function? |
