hi,
I'm having the hardest time understanding what's wrong with my sound system. I have ALSA 1.3.1 installed on my slackware 10.0 ( updated to current ).
When I run alsaconf it doesn't find any legacy PCI devices. Though I'm sure my card is supported:
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>/sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) 00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) 00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
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According to alsa website I needed the i810_audio module, so because alsa wouldn't detect it, I loaded it manually:
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>modprobe i810_audio
>lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
smbfs 41328 1 (autoclean)
usb-ohci 19240 0 (unused)
8139too 14376 1
mii 2272 0 [8139too]
crc32 2880 0 [8139too]
ohci1394 24112 0 (unused)
ieee1394 42276 0 [ohci1394]
ds 6548 1
yenta_socket 10336 1
pcmcia_core 39972 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ntfs 51424 2 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 9328 0
i810_audio 23484 1
ac97_codec 12084 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 3396 2 [i810_audio]
usb-storage 66176 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [usb-ohci usb-storage]
agpgart 43940 0 (unused)
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(I've also loaded the ac97_codec because this is the driver's name that pops up under windows, a shot in the dark...)
my /etc/modules.conf file is empty, because alsaconf wouldn't run... I didn't feel the need to edit this file because now my sound works (xmms plays songs just fine). One of my questions is: "is alsa actually running now or have I bypassed to by manually loading modules?"
I'm having the biggest difficulties getting aRts to work, one should think that once sound is up and running *any* sound daemon should be able to use it. (mainly I want to use JuK, that apparantly uses aRts and for software mixing ) I've been searching all over this place and lots of others and couldn't find the solution to my problem. Some specs :
when I open aRts control center and play a file in JuK I see the oscialtions ( meaning data is being played ) but no sound comes out of my speakers. I then thought perhaps my alsamixer muted this somehow but
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>alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
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(I've edited the /etc/group file so the current user was in the audio group, as suggested elsewhere in the forum)
kmix seems to be working just fine though.
/dev/dsp exists
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>ls -all /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2005-01-13 00:56 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
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I'm using kernel 2.4.26 strait from the box, but strangly after installing alsa a directory /lib/modules/2.4.28/ turned up with some extra sound drivers inside of it.
I'm just trying to post as much information as possible, I don't have a clue anymore on what the problem might be or what I could do to solve it. dozens of different threads suggest dozens of different solutions, I believe I've tried most of them
Any suggestions on how I could get my sound to work properly so I can use aRts. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
MuSHi
