hi there.
well i managed it to load my sound modules somehow. now when i am starting kde i get no sound... (before i got a error message /dev/dsp not found but after reinstalling alsa it worked).

i unmuted my volumne. xmms is playing but i cannot hear any sound. everything works fine it seems, ecxept there is no sound coming out of the speakers.

ya, i booted with XP and there IS sound (so no speaker problems)

before with 2.4.22 everything was working fine.

any suggestions?

some output:

lsmod:

Module Size Used by
snd_seq 55568 0
snd_pcm_oss 51364 1
ipv6 243904 8
appletalk 37840 2
ipx 32292 2
snd_mixer_oss 20608 2 snd_pcm_oss
parport_pc 41004 1
lp 13864 0
parport 40424 2 parport_pc,lp
snd_intel8x0 32260 2
snd_ac97_codec 54788 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 88352 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer 24964 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 13060 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 9984 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 23840 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 10504 2 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 46948 10 snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 11232 3 snd
autofs4 17152 0
af_packet 21128 0
agpgart 29996 0
nls_iso8859_1 7936 1
ntfs 99564 1
msdos 12800 0
via_rhine 22792 0
mii 8192 1 via_rhine
crc32 8064 1 via_rhine
usb_storage 66880 0
usbcore 98524 1 usb_storage
apm 20716 0
rtc 14664 0
ext3 105128 0
jbd 59544 1 ext3

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB2 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0314 (rev a1)
02:02.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 (rev 01)
02:03.0 Network controller: Lucent Microelectronics: Unknown device ab10
02:04.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 8b)
02:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)

no idea how to show that i really unmuted my dev volumne though.



any ideas???? thx in advance.

have you rebooted since unmuting, if so, did you run alsactrl store, to save your default volumes?

heya. thx for answer.

ya i tried to reboot. and yes i stored the volumes and checked it after reboot. its weird.
everything behaves if sound would work (kontrolcenter is telling me dsp is in use and so on when playing xmms and trying to update the arts settings).

oh and i've checked the whole forum and searched for an answer... i couldnt find anything suitable. i had problems with installing before.
does anyone know which packages (debian) i have to install? i was installing everything containing the word "alsa"...

have you tried multiple file types, i.e. mp3, ogg, etc. to see if it is a file type recognition problem?

well it seems to recognize my mp3s. its telling me the name of the singer, title, length and so on and i am able to see the equilizer working.
when starting kde its playing smth different than mp3 (wav i think) as well i was testing the sound with alsaconf - nothing. oh and trying the test sound of kontrolcenter :-) everythinig the same result. kmixer looks working (no X in taskbar) and when opening everything is set to max.

additional info: could it be that 2.6.2 wont work together with alsabase 1.0.1-1?? i am using driver modules from kernel 2.6.2 and alsabase, utils, etc. from sarge/sid?

you may have hit the nail on the head. i took a look at the alsa site, and, the most recent driver packages 1.0.2c appear to have fixes for 2.6.x kernels. hope that helps.

ill try it and post a mess if it worked. thx for help meanwhile :-)

If you installed the alsa stuff via rpm, I believe that there is a specific kernel-alsa-"your kernel version number"-i686.rpm
I think those kernel-alsa rpms are indeed kernel specific.

PEACEDOG wrote something about patches for 2.6.2? where do i find them at alsa-project?

btw... i was installing the drivers from the kernel (they were included) and installed alsa-utils and the other stuff later.
this did not work.

now i recompiled the kernel WITHOUT alsa support but WITH soundcore. ill try to install .deb packages again. if this wont work either i will install alsa without deb packages... sigh. will be messy but if it works...

holy coconut!

i recompiled my kernel (without alsa support, but with soundcore),
deinstalled all alsa packages
installed all packages from alsa-project like the install instructions told me,

and now: STILL NO SOUND. everything is like before. unmuted, able to load modules without any errormessages, everything works fine: except i wont get any sound.

anyone able to help?

well i found out that OSS is installed as well... maybe this is causing the problems. right now i am running with OSS and it works. cannot mute / change volume within kmix though...

i will try to deinstall OSS and install ALSA. maybe this will help

Mate,

I went through all this drama with debian, 2.6.2 and alsa the other day. I managed to get alsa going only by installing several alsa packages via apt-get. I thought this sorta defeated the point of having it compiled into the kernel, but anyway.

Well alsa was working for xmms and mplayer, only after selecting for alsa in preferences. General apps were not producing any sound, eg games, or flash running in a browser.

What I read, alsa seems to be a major pain to configure.

I solved my hassles by reconfiguring the kernel with oss but not alsa, and running good old sndconfig.

Now I have perfect sound.

thx mctavish,

if no application is using alsa yet i wont install it (yet) i guess.
thanks for information...

btw... any experience using the OSS EMULATION optin within the kernel? did you try this or did you use the OSS option for itself?

I had the same problem yesterday using Slackware, end up recompiled with only sound support and installing the packages from source using the packages from alsa and the instructions on the site for my particular sound card. Only differemce now than from using 2.4 kernel is I have to modprobe my soundcard (snd-emu10k1) at boot to get it working rather than leaving it commented out in the Slack rc.modules file.

Don't know anything about OSS emulation, I just ignored alsa altogether and compiled in standard oss.

Looking_Lost, I also have a soundcard that uses that module (Soundblaster Live).

I used a command called modconf which added this line into my modules file to load it up at boot:
emu10k1

This may help you, I don't know.