Kent West wrote:
I just got blessed with a Gateway E-3400 933MHz PIII box; sweet machine.I've recompiled a new 2.4.2 kernel and everything's working well except for sound.
It's an "AC'97 soft audio using ADI 1881" setup (according to Gateway tech support). According to the ALSA mini-HOWTO, this requires the
snd-card-intel8x0
module, which I have downloaded and compiled, along with the appropriate libs and utils. (I'm running a 2.4.2 kernel). After installing the module, lsmod reports:
snd-card-intel8x0 6992 0 (unused) snd-pcm 49248 0 [snd-card-intel8x0] snd-timer 9664 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 18336 0 [snd-card-intel8x0]snd 27696 1 [snd-card-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]vmnet 17632 1 vmmon 18672 0 3c59x 22848 1 appletalk 17680 0 vfat 10576 0 (unused) fat 30624 0 [vfat] smbfs 33744 0 (unused)I also ran .snddevices as per the instructions, which presumably created the /dev files needed (there is a /dev/snd directory now).When I try to "splay" some sound file (.wav or .mp3), I get: Cannot open /dev/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp! splay: Failed to open sound device. When I run "saytime", I get no sound and no errors. When I try to cat (SomeSoundFile) > /dev/dsp, I get bash: /dev/dsp: No such device Same for /dev/audio. I am in the audio group. I've also tried all this as root.
Just now I found another piece; according to the ALSA mini-HOWTO I needed to "modprobe snd-pcm1-oss", which didn't exist. However, I did find a "snd-pcm-oss". After loading it, I can now cat soundfiles to /dev/[audio|dsp] without getting an error. However, I still get no sound. This is a brand new machine, so I don't even know for sure that the sound hardware (speakers, wires, etc) work correctly, so I'll try to verify that everything's working there.