Using alsa, I get no sound from the sound card.
Background info :
Dell Inspiron 7500 notebook, PIII
ESS 1978 "Maestro 2E" sound card
OSS module 'maestro' does (did, when it was loaded :-)) work
I successfully installed alsa on the machine at home which has a
Sound Blaster Pro ('sb8') card
The situation :
I rebuilt the kernel (2.4.20) with the alsa modules. I booted
with the new kernel, loaded the sound modules and saw that the
card was detected and the device nodes exist (I'm using devfs, so
once the kernel recognizes the device the /dev file is created).
I ran 'alsamixer' and set every volume level to the maximum. I
tried each of 'alsaplayer', 'esd', and 'xmms'[1] but did not hear
anything from the speakers, even with all hardware volume knobs
turned to the maximum.
Pertinent info :
$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
snd-dummy 4000 0
snd-pcm-oss 39972 1
snd-mixer-oss 13592 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-es1968 16612 2
snd-pcm 61028 0 [snd-dummy snd-pcm-oss snd-es1968]
snd-timer 14500 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 5116 0 [snd-dummy snd-es1968 snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 39752 0 [snd-es1968]
snd-mpu401-uart 3312 0 [snd-es1968]
snd-rawmidi 13376 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 4288 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 30532 1 [snd-dummy snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3972 8 [snd]
$ ls -l /dev/dsp
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 2003-08-10 13:14 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp
$ ls -l /dev/sound/*
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 1969-12-31 19:00 /dev/sound/audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 9 1969-12-31 19:00 /dev/sound/dmmidi
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 1969-12-31 19:00 /dev/sound/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 1969-12-31 19:00 /dev/sound/midi00
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 1969-12-31 19:00 /dev/sound/mixer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 1969-12-31 19:00 /dev/sound/unknown
Any ideas or insights are welcome!
-D
[1] with xmms I tried each of the alsa, oss, and esound output plugins
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