Re: sound structure on a Dell inspiron 8600

[Peter <peter@bsqt.homeip.net>]

You should not have to create anything in /dev, but I have often had to chmod 
666 /dev/snd/* /dev/ami* /dev/adsp*   to let mere mortals control sound.

Were you running alsaconf as root?  if not try doing so and see if it "finds"
the devices.

Try to configure your applictions to talk to a sound server for your 
environment (arts is the sound server for KDE, esd is for gnome) and
just work on getting the sound server working.   Having too many apps
talking to the sound drivers will confuse things.

Are you sure you have all the modules?  
Here is the list of modules on a working ALSA (on a Dell Latitude D600, 
centrino) Is that what it looks like?

# lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0m          19652  1
snd_intel8x0           33056  1
snd_ac97_codec         77536  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            53028  0
snd_mixer_oss          21760  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                89348  4 
snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              25476  1 snd_pcm
snd                    51812  11 
snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              11616  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         11780  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
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On Friday 07 January 2005 14:47, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> recently i was forced to do a debian re-installation from scratch, for my
> Dell laptop.
>
> 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:34:30 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> The sound wasn't working perfectly, so I installed (with wajig) all the
> alsa modules. and then *hurray* the sound for the cd player, dvd player
> (totem) and xmms (but only if i choose oss as my output plugin) worked
> perfectly!
>
> however, when i restarted the laptop a few days later, nothing worked.
> /dev/dsp was non-existant, so i copied another dsp file there. but still i
> can't seem to get any sound. and dsp seems to dissapear every time i
> reboot.
>
> user:/# MAKEDEV dsp
> /sbin/MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "dsp"
>
> it seems weird. it seems like it is loading the right drivers etc, but
> still doesn't work. For example. if i run alsaconf, then the card is set
> up. the modules seem to be loaded and there's no errors. but then, if i try
> to run amixer for example, it says device not found.
>
>
> anyone have any ideas?
>
>
> cheers
> wendy