Re: Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec

[Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>]

On Monday 25 November 2002 02:03 pm, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > I also heard of the reports of people using ALSA on this laptop, so I
> > installed alsa-drivers-0.9: `modprobe snd-intel8x0` succeeds, but xmms
> > gives an error: "oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp):
> > No such device"
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Maybe you forgot to enable the OSS compatibility when compiling the alsa
> drivers (or your modules.conf file is bad). 

In fact, I didn't have OSS support in the kernel. Now I compiled it in (as a 
module), but I get the same error. Here is the relevant lsmod output.

sound                  59244   0  (unused)
snd-intel8x0           11712   0  (unused)
snd-pcm                54784   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer              10816   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec         26816   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart         3296   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi            13664   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          4396   0  [snd-rawmidi]
snd                    27304   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer 
snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3844   2  [sound snd]

I had to `modprobe sound` manually, as `modprobe snd-intel8x0` doesn't cause 
sound.o to load.

All of this is strange because when I briefly tried Mandrake 9.0, the sound 
worked (somehow).

Thanks
Oleg