Re: ALSA 0.9

[christophe barbé <christophe.barbe@lineo.fr>]

I agree that the alsa-source is in a bad state.
This is amazing to see the file which explains (badly) how to compile the
modules to be a file prepocessed during the build process :  
	alsa-source_VERSION_.README.debian.in
There's alsa-base.README.debian but this one contains no revelant
information.
The config file to store you build preference (pnp yes/no, which modules)
seems to not be documented.

The alsaconf produces (try) a 0.5 conf file.

...

Christophe

Le sam, 04 aoû 2001 07:55:42, David A. Greene a écrit :
> [Sent to debian-devel because I think the alsaconf package
>   needs to be updated and probably the install messages
>   produced by the build/install of alsa-source.]
> 
> I'm trying to get the ESS Maestro3 in my laptop (Dell Latitude
> CPx/J) working, so I built modules from the Debian alsa-source
> package (0.9+0beta4-5).  I'm running testing so I pulled the
> unstable alsa-utils (0.9.0beta4-1).  Ok, so the versions don't
> exactly match.  Is this a problem?  They installed ok.
> 
> I can modprobe snd-card-maestro3 just fine and even got
> the autoloader to work.  Most everything in /proc/asound looks
> good.  I created the /dev/snd devices with snddevices in the
> module source directory, added what I think are the appropriate
> entries in /etc/modutils/aliases (including OSS support) and
> ran update-modules.
> 
> Problem is, when I cat /proc/asound/sndstat I get:
> 
> Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta4 emulation code)
> Kernel: Linux waller 2.4.5 #1 Wed Jun 20 11:19:45 EDT 2001 i686
> Config options: 0
> 
> Installed drivers:
> Type 10: ALSA emulation
> 
> Card config:
> ESS Maestro3 PCI at 0xd800, irq -1
> 
> Audio devices:
> 0: Maestro3 (DUPLEX)
> 
> Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
> 
> Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
> 
> Timers:
> 7: system timer
> 
> Mixers:
> 0: mixer00
> 
> So the card is definitely detected but some (OSS?) devices
> aren't enabled (MIDI and synth).  lsmod looks like this
> (relevant portions only):
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> snd-seq                41472   0
> snd-seq-device          4272   0  [snd-seq]
> snd-pcm-oss            37088   0  (autoclean)
> snd-mixer-oss           9344   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-card-maestro3      12624   0
> snd-pcm                47456   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-card-maestro3]
> snd-timer               9472   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
> snd-ac97-codec         23200   0  [snd-card-maestro3]
> snd                    25888   1  [snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss 
> snd-mixer-oss snd-card-maestro3 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
> soundcore               3856   2  [snd]
> 
> It looks like things are mostly there, except I get this from amixer:
> 
>  >>-waller-> amixer
> amixer: Mixer attach hw:0 error: No such file or directory
> 
> I am stumped.  There's an empty /etc/alsa/0.9 directory.  According
> to the information when I installed the Debian package, this is
> supposed to contain an ALSA config file, and alsaconf is supposed
> to help with that.  Unfortunately, alsaconf is outdated and
> doesn't know about the Maestro3.  The ALSA docs don't mention
> any sort of config file from what I can tell.  I cobbled together
> the necessary module alias information from the source INSTALL
> file (commented entries were things noted on the ALSA web page
> mini-HOWTO -- I think it's out of date WRT 0.9):
> 
> # ALSA modules
> alias char-major-116 snd
> #alias snd-minor-oss-0 snd-card-maestro3
> #alias snd-minor-oss-3 snd-pcm-oss
> #alias snd-minor-oss-4 snd-pcm-oss
> #alias snd-minor-oss-5 snd-pcm-oss
> #alias snd-minor-oss-12 snd-pcm-oss
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-maestro3
> options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
> 
> # OSS/Free setup
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> 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
> 
> Help!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>                                    -Dave
> 
> --
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> 
> 
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