Hi all, I may have made a mistake in choosing ALSA sound instead of OSS on my woody box... I just installed the first thing that said "sound drivers" in dselect and I heard later that ALSA has a reputation for being, er, non-trivial to get working... But hey: in for a penny, in for a pound... right? So here goes: I installed alsa-base 0.9+0beta12, alsa-modules 0.9+0beta10, and alsa-utils 0.5.10-1... This required me to upgrade to kernel 2.4.16-686. Done (and verified with uname that that is the currently booted kernel). I established that my card (SBLive! 5.1) is called emu10k1, and told ALSA to use that module... lsmod has this to say: snd-card-emu10k1 1952 0 (unused) snd-emu10k1 47200 0 [snd-card-emu10k1] snd-pcm 46176 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 9056 0 [snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 11456 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-hwdep 3456 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-util-mem 1184 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-ac97-codec 22848 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 3744 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd 23336 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-seq-device] soundcore 3556 2 [snd] (Including only the results that look (to my untrained eye) relevant.) Now when I run alsaconf, it doesn't detect my card; so I choose SB Live off the list, hit okay, hit enter a few times to accept the identifier CARD_0, the max. dac 128, max. adc 64... Then it says: OK, 1 card(s) configured. will prepare the card for playing now. Now I'll run '/etc/init.d/alsa start', then I'll use 'amixer'... Then we get this response: Loading driver: Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0beta10): emu10k1. Restoring ALSA mixer settings...done. Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected correctly. And every time gdm starts, it gives me a sound-related error, umm... "could not open /dev/pcm" (I *think* that's what it says) And, (obviously?) any sound-related apps don't make any sound. So... can anybody tell me what I missed? or what I should try next? Many thanks, Chris
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