Re: ALSA problems sarge 2.4.25

[lebbatdot@cogeco.ca]

* David (dbree@duo-county.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:19:12AM -0500, lebbatdot@cogeco.ca wrote:
> > ALl
> > I have been trying to get ALSA working on my admitadly old IBM 300PL for
> > the last while.  Extensive Googling and several kernel recompiles later
> > I think I am in reverse!
> > I am running sarge kernel version 2.4.25
> > Here is the output of aadebug from the ALSA website
> > 
> > Loaded Modules --------------------------------------------
> > snd                    34276   0
> > 
> > Modules Conf ----------------------------------------------
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > options snd major=116 cards_limit=4
> > 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
> > alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-cs46xx
> > alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1370
> > alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0
> > alias snd-slot-1 snd-card-1
> > alias sound-slot-1 snd-slot-1
> > 
> > ANy ideas on what to try next?
> > 
> > 
> > Help appreciated
> 
> Perhaps your sound card requires some options.  try
> "modinfo <your-card>".  I had a problem similar to this after an upgrade
> of alsa, and I go it working by adding a line as follows to my
> /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 file:
> 
> options snd-sgalaxy index=0 id=CARD_0 sbport=0x220 wssport=0x530 irq=10 dma1=0
> 
> and then running "update-modules".
> 
> Your line will be different - my card is an s3, but you get the idea.
> This may not "stick" after an upgrade.  My alsa was working and then
> suddenly quit after an upgrade ( or maybe after going from 0.9 to 1.0) -
> the driver refused to load- 
> or maybe the options line was being found somewhere else, but anyway,
> after doing the above, my alsa began working again.
> 
> 
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Thanks for the reply Dave but it seems in this kernel version the
modules are not even loading., I just get a failed message after
/etc/init.d/alsa start.  I do not see any info using modinfo, as I
believe the modules are not even there?  

Here is modinfo on the snd module
sarge:~# modinfo snd
filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.25alsa3/alsa/snd.o
description: "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards."
author:      "Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>"
license:     "GPL"
parm:        major int, description "Major # for sound driver."
parm:        cards_limit int, description "Count of auto-loadable
soundcards."
parm:        device_mode int, description "Device file permission mask
for devfs."
sarge:~#

Another thing is I cannot see where to engage debug on the alsa module?
There is a reference to it when one does the dpkg install on a web page
but I do not see that option when I install it from the testing (sarge)
apt site.

I find the lack of any errors being generated in any logs that I look at
disconcering, not sure how to turn them on.