Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I've been unable to get alsa working on my Woody installation. Here's what
> I've done so far:
>
> * installed/compiled alsa-source
> * run alsaconf to configure my sound card
> * run update-modules to update modules.conf
> * cat /proc/interrupts to make sure I don't have an IRQ conflict (I don't)
> * looked at an identical machine (Dell Optiplex GX1) to make sure IRQ/DMA,
> etc settings are correct
> * lsmod shows that all the drivers are loaded
> * /etc/init.d/alsa restart works fine with alsa reporting no errors
Debian's packaging of ALSA is a mess. Your best chance is to
1) Remove everything you already installed including the drivers,
libasound, the alsa utils, xmms plugins, etc.
2) Get the latest 0.90beta8a packages from http://www.alsa-project.org/
3) Compile and install the drivers, lib, oss emulation, and utils in that
order.
ALSA is hard to package because the API in practically evey revision is
incompatible with the previous revision. I hope the packaging may get
straightened out when ALSA solidifies. I'd even volunteer to maintain the
packages.
-jwb
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