On 29/05/2006, at 2:46 AM, Tyson Whitehead wrote:
I don't get any sound out of the system at all. Running one of the alsa sound test programs (speaker-test) produces no sound, and eventually the kernel starts barfing error messages "Bad page state" with much unilluminating hex numbers (is this an oops?).Yeah. That should give you some white noise. Any chance you didn't unmute the appropriate channels and turn up their volume (see alsamixer -- 'm'unmutes and the up arrow turns up the volumes)?
Right, this time I remembered to adjust the volumes. Still no sound. This is running on the XP1000.
Does the driver load okay, what does it claims you card is (mine is supposedlyan ES1888), and if the mixer program work?
The driver reports nothing. No messages appear in syslog other than udev messages about the making of appropriate device nodes. Should I get a message about hardware at that point? Interestingly, alsamixer lists the sound card as an ESS Audiodrive ES1887, which is correct.
I just tried the alpha-alsa.patch mentioned earlier in this thread but itmakes no difference.Well that does work for me.
No, definitely doesn't do anything for me. I am pretty sure that I am getting the patched module loaded this time.
However, just to be sure there hasn't been some fluke kernel version thing or something, could you please try the linux-image that works on my box (it's the stock Debian 2.6.14 kernel with the only difference being the addition ofthe alsa patch)
Sorry, but can't get that to work. The dpkg program reports that packages yaird, initramfs and initramfs-tools are not available and thus can't configure it. Trying to install these packages with apt- get fails, and when I searched directly on the debian package website I couldn't find them. Presumably these make an initrd image?
Michael.