Re: Problems with sound under etch

[carlopmart <carlopmart@gmail.com>]

In /dev/snd:

savannah:/dev/snd# ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      200 Nov 23 18:38 .
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root    14180 Nov 23 17:39 ..
crw-rw----   1 root audio 116,  0 Nov 23 18:38 controlC0
crw-rw----   1 root audio 116, 24 Nov 23 18:38 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----   1 root audio 116, 16 Nov 23 18:38 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----   1 root audio 116, 25 Nov 23 18:38 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----   1 root audio 116, 26 Nov 23 18:38 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----   1 root audio 116, 27 Nov 23 18:38 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw----   1 root audio 116, 20 Nov 23 18:38 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw----   1 root audio 116, 33 Nov 23 18:38 timer

 I am using 2.6.12-1 kernel's original from debian repositories. Do i 
need to upgrade to 2.6.14???

devis wrote:
> carlopmart wrote:
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have some problems with sound under etch. I have installed udev
> > alsa-utils and alsa-base packages from repositories. When system
> > starts up only device /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/audio are created but
> > /dev/dsp0, /dev/audio0, etc ... does not exists. How can I fix this??
> >
> > Modules loaded are:
> >
> > snd                    56260  8
> > snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> > soundcore               9696  2 snd
> > pcspkr                  3332  0
> > serio_raw               7108  0
> > snd_page_alloc          9860  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> > snd_pcm                93416  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_pcm_oss            54848  1
> > snd_mixer_oss          19968  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_intel8x0           34016  2
> > snd_ac97_codec         83960  1 snd_intel8x0
>
>
> Do you have anything in /dev/snd/ ?
> had the same issue, i resolved it by installing udev, not that i really
> wanted it. This seems to be linked to 2.6.14 kernel. Reverting to my
> previous 2.6.13, all issues are gone.
>
> I run multiple sound cards, and now my issue is to make it respect the
> index=0 option to specify in which order i want the cards on my system
> to appear, still on 2.6.14.
> Hope this helps.
>
> -d.

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