Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable
Stefan Deibel wrote:
> Hi,
> After upgrading to Debian/unstable I want to get sound with ALSA. I install
> alsa-source and compiled the alsa-driver for Soundblaster 128 PCI (Ensoni1
> 1371) it using kernel 2.4.3. After installation lsmod shows
>
> snd-seq-midi 4816 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> snd-seq-oss 30400 0 (unused)
> snd-seq-midi-event 3520 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
> snd-seq 47360 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
> snd-seq-midi-event]
> snd-pcm-oss 20176 0 (unused)
> snd-pcm-plugin 15920 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-mixer-oss 5216 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-card-ens1371 2384 1
> snd-ens1371 13264 0 [snd-card-ens1371]
> snd-pcm 38912 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371]
> snd-timer 11040 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
> snd-ac97-codec 27104 0 [snd-ens1371]
> snd-rawmidi 12128 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371]
> snd-seq-device 4528 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq
> snd-rawmidi]snd-mixer 30576 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371
> snd-ac97-codec]
> snd 45264 4 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
> snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
> snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi
> snd-seq-device snd-mixer]
> soundcore 4112 7 [snd]
>
> This seems to be all right for me but I don't get any sound with aplay.
> I also installed the alsaplayer and alsaplayer-alsa packages. But when I
> call alsaplayer from within Gnome's menu
> nothing happens. Starting alsaplayer from the terminal yields
>
> AlsaPlayer 0.99.33-pre2
> (C) 1999 Andy Lo A Foe <andy@alsa-project.org> and others, see
> AUTHORS file for details
>
> and nothing happens.
> Does anyone have ideas what is missing?
>
If you were using alsa 0.5x before, try looking in syslog (or kernel log) for
some error messages. I recently tried 0.9+0beta3-1 (the latest version present
in sid, IIRC), and my sound card stopped working (i've got an integrated VIA
686a). The problem was about some options probably no more supported
(snd_pbk_frame_size and snd_cap_frame_size) with the new alsa driver. I've not
looked further, have only removed the options, so it will need some
investigation, anyway the sound now is working (but with esd, i've a very
disturbing noise in the left channel...)
Andrea
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