Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:57, Stephen Gran wrote:
> I missed the beginning of this thread, sorry, but I guess the basics -
> are the relevant modules loaded?
Here's what it started with, the card seems detected (dmesg):
es1371: version v0.22 time 19:13:40 Nov 18 2000
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x03
es1371: found es1371 rev 3 at io 0xc800 irq 5
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor (0x000000) revision 0 (0x00)
es1371: codec features none
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
The modules are loaded (lsmod):
Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 3880 1 (autoclean)
serial 19640 0 (autoclean)
mousedev 3600 0 (unused)
usbmouse 1624 0 (unused)
usbcore 41804 0 [usbmouse]
input 2688 0 [mousedev usbmouse]
rtl8139 11144 1
sound 56364 0 (unused)
soundlow 368 0 [sound]
es1371 26544 0
soundcore 2440 7 [sound es1371]
vfat 9408 0 (unused)
ntfs 35012 1
nfs 43820 1
lockd 41720 1 [nfs]
sunrpc 55452 1 [nfs lockd]
unix 11336 227 (autoclean)
but 'cat /dev/sndstat' is empty:
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux blue 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
Seems like sndstat being empty doesn't mean anything. One guy has it
working fine but sndstat looks the same as mine.
> Many sound cards have different
> sound outs - try both the digital and the analog, as the module may
> not support both.
I'm on analog to my speakers right now, I can try the other one but it
looks like something else is bothering it since things hang and xmms
doens't even start playing files (I press play and it just stops right
away).
> Try (in /dev/) MAKEDEV audio - that'll recreate all
> the relevant /dev/ nodes.
Did that.
> Is your user in the audio group?
Yes, we also tried chmod 777 on both /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer
> When you cat a file to /dev/dsp, does it actually hang, or is it just
> pausing while the file is being catted? I mean, if you cat a 5 second
> .wav file, does it pause for longer than the 5 seconds.
It hangs. I waited 10 minutes on a small file.
> You can> strace these trials to see if the program thinks it is successfully
> opening /dev/dsp for writing, or if there is a problem.
I'll try that, thanks.
> OK - I'm out of ideas for now. Write back with details, and I'm sorry
> if I'm suggesting things already done.
No problems, I really appreciate the help and a fresh outlook is always
good.
-D
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