Yes that's the correct DVD image. Just pay attention, the difference between i386/x86 and x86_64 can be confusing at times.

Great! I'll let you know when I finish downloading and installing it!
Thank you very much!

Thetargos, Thanks for all your help! I've been able to install Fedora 3 and everything works great, thanks again!

Glad you got it working!

Thetargos, some more questions: [list=1][*]I haven't been able to set automatic loggin to a user in a GNOME session, it always goes to KDE (GNOME is the default session). Any ideas?[*]The KDE wallet keeps asking me for my password to acces the different passwords I save in it. Is there a way to remember also the wallet's pass so that it stops asking?[*]Is there a way to automatically activate NumLock for all types of sessions and even for the logging screen?[*]When I log in a KDE session, in the desktop appear, among others, CD-ROM (hdc) [/media/cdrecorder],CD-ROM (hdc) [/media/cdrom] and CD/DVD-ROM but I have in my computer a normal cdrom and a DVD recorder, I don't have 3 cds! Even worst, when I try to explore the cd's in any of the 2 CD(let's call them readers), it tells me:
mount: No medium found
Please check that the disk is entered correctly
But the same CDs are properly mounted if I am in GNOME.
My /etc/fstab is:
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_ubject_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_ubject_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_ubject_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
The faces up there are " : "
[*]I have Wireless Keyboard and Mouse from Logitech. The keyboard comes with a lot of extra buttons for internet apllications, media functions etc etc. and the mouse has 3 buttons plus a whell that is also a 4th button. The thing is, I would like to configure both of them but I don't know if this is posibble.I give more importance to the keyboard media buttons (play, stop, next, previous, volume)[*]iPods and Palms. Both managed by windows, I imagine there is no way of using them with both operating systems? Am I wrong?[/list=1]

Ok, for the thread's sake, lets not take it too off topic, shall we?

You may contact me via e-mail to thetargos at tutopia dot com, you don't need to send me all your inquiries again (I'll read them off this post) and I can then answer your questions better and leave this thread dedicated to ALSA.

Hi there - First I want to thank you guys for having this thread, it has been educational to me.

However, going through all of the steps etc. when I "cat /proc/sound/cards" it simply says === no soundcards ===

How do I get my sound card in there? I am assuming that the process outlined in the how to should populate this and it shouldn't be a manual entry.

When I use alsaconf it doesn't detect my sound card.

I know I should post a lot more information for help, but I wanted to be sure that this tread is still actively being monitored.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

First of all, did you try to manually load the drivers with "modprobe"? Did that affect /proc/asound/cards? How about your modprobe file? And most importantly, what soundcard do you have?

dang - i tried to post a link to an external site and it wiped out my whole comment.

Okay - let's try again.

Thanks for responding - glad to see that you are still monitoring this thread. It looks like you have been a big help to a lot of people.

when i do a modprobe intel8x0 it get returned to the # prompt without errors, but this doesn't change the /proc/sound/cards.

I am using the following MOBO with on board sound Foxconn WinFAST 6150K8MA-8EKRS: you can fid it at foxconnchannel dot com

I can't post a link to their site but the chipset is based off the Nvidia chipset AC97. I verified on the Alsa website that the generic driver for this is the intel8x0.

I have even downloaded the specific linux driver from Nvidia (OSS) and it seemed to install fine, but still no sound.

I will post up my configs shortly - just excited that you replied.

Thanks again,

Mike

Fedora Core 4
kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4
gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)

/etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0 3c59x
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
alias eth1 forcedeth
# nvidia kernel module
# alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-8178
# alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-8178
# nvidia sound card
# alias snd-card-0 nvsound
# alias snd-intel8x0 off
# alias i810_audio off
# install nvsound /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install nvsound ; sleep 1; /usr/bin/nvmix-reg -f /etc/nvmixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
# remove nvsound { /usr/bin/nvmix-reg -f /etc/nvmixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove nvsound
# onboard sound card
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
# alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 ivtv
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias char-major-81-2 ivtv


lsmod

Module Size Used by
snd_intel8x0 68520 0
snd_ac97_codec 144316 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 35456 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy 36740 0
snd_seq_oss 71268 0
snd_seq_midi_event 41344 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 95960 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 42896 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 90656 0
snd_mixer_oss 51328 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 135432 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 59016 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 97632 10 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_o ss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
parport_pc 65580 1
lp 49025 0
parport 77261 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 56905 1
rfcomm 109537 0
l2cap 94400 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 123333 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 210041 1
pcmcia 79729 0
yenta_socket 63053 0
rsrc_nonstatic 47169 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 81525 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
dm_mod 99337 0
video 52553 0
button 41185 0
battery 44233 0
ac 38985 0
ipv6 432321 18
ohci1394 71457 0
ieee1394 407641 1 ohci1394
ohci_hcd 57565 0
ehci_hcd 70477 0
tda9887 50769 0
wm8775 40269 0
cx25840 58065 0
tuner 80497 0
tveeprom 51409 0
ivtv 253780 0
i2c_algo_bit 43081 1 ivtv
i2c_core 59457 7 tda9887,wm8775,cx25840,tuner,tveeprom,ivtv,i2c_algo_bit
videodev 45633 1 ivtv
nvidia 4873140 12
nvsound 1750100 0
soundcore 45025 2 snd,nvsound
snd_page_alloc 43920 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
3c59x 84853 0
mii 39617 1 3c59x
forcedeth 60869 0
floppy 107993 0
ext3 179665 2
jbd 100073 1 ext3
sata_nv 44101 0
libata 98265 1 sata_nv
sd_mod 53697 0
scsi_mod 195321 2 libata,sd_mod


scsound.log

Config Soundcard --------
Tue Feb 21 20:57:15 EST 2006

------- lspci --------
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
04:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
04:07.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge (non-transparent mode) (rev 11)
04:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
04:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
05:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
05:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)


Thanks,

Mike

Hi all,
Thank you Thetargos for this thread!

I have a simple question: how can I have sound in a monolythic kernel?
(all built-in, no modules)

I'm running a custom 2.6.15.5 kernel and enabled the alsa driver and the oss compatibility options. I also compiled in the alsa driver for my card (ISA SoundBlaster 16). However, it won't get detected at startup:

I assume that the problem resides in the lack of module support, right? alsaconf fails when searching for ISA PnP cards with errors from modinfo (one for each checked driver).

Am I trying the impossible here? Please help! Thanks!

big_manel

PS: I will now recompile with module support just to test if that really is the matter, but I'd prefer a module free kernel!

Firt and foremost, you're welcome.

Second, unless you have a VERY good reason not to have a modular kernel, running all built-in can be rather difficult. Now that off the way...

If you have the drive built-in (and assuming only ALSA has been compiled with its own OSS support, and no OSS modules were built-in too), you should have your card working, as the driver is already loaded into the kernel image. Now what information do yo have in the various files and directories under /proc/asound/? For example, what does it list when you do a
Or
??

Check if even /proc/asound exists at all!

Thank you for replying!

cat /proc/asound/cards returned
[CODE]--- No soundcards ---[\CODE]

Now I am trying the modular kernel (just to check if modules are the issue), but I ran into more trouble because no modules are being loaded (the system boots fine, only the few enabled modules don't even spell out an error: alsa won't start and there won't be any /proc/asound dir. Insmod and modinfo complain about not finding any modules. Do I have to specify a module search path? And where? Do I need symlinks? Also, I am trusting modprobe.conf generated by generate-modprobe.conf)

All in all I think I was better off without modules as I still could fire alsa up :P

One question: When the driver is built-in, how will options be passed to it?

I'm lost here! Fortunately, sound is not of paramount importance in this box since it is a server (same reason I found modules to be unneeded: either you'll use a feature, or you won't!). This, however, doesn't mean I am not loosing sleep to this!

Thanks again for even reading my post!

big_manel

Depending on your distribution and whether if you use udev or devfs, it can change quite a bit. No matter what you use, as log as it is a 2.6.x kernel, modules are loaded according to the rules in /etc/modprobe.conf... You will have to map the devices there and pass the necessary options to the drivers (modules). Something like this will do the trick to load and map the necessary drivers and devices:

Good luck!

Thanks Thetargos, for the help!

However, I am still unable to set sound up in either kind of kernel (monolythic, buit-in sound and modularized).

-In the modularized kernel I did as you told and added those lines to modprobe.conf. I also added the options line as per the alsa-project site instructions (I did not know how to set all of the options: I entered the base and mpu ports, the irq and the low/high DMA addresses, I also set an option called 'enable' to 1, the others -'id', 'index', 'csm'- were not entered, is this ok?)
Then I tried to load the modules but nothing happened (guess I didn't quite know what I was doing...). 'modprobe snd' worked fine, but not 'modprobe snd-sb16' which said that 'No device found' or simmilar (the card 'is' there, and works well under kernel 2.4.28 with OSS drivers)
How should I fire up these modules?

-In the monolythic kernel also no luck. The documentation at the alsa-project site states that it is possible (though unrecommended) to build ALSA into the kernel, but I found no further support on that. I guess I will have to resort to modules, it's not such a big deal, but what if I needed a compact monolythic embeded system? The one thing I think would be hard to set up would be the driver options (I know I asked this before but did not understand your answer to this question, sorry). As I see it, they would either have to be harcoded or the driver would have to support configuration files, am I wrong?

Anyway, I'll focus on trying to set up ALSA on the modularized kernel... Please point me to the module initialization commands, because I really have little experience dealing with that!

Thanks again!

big_manel