Re: alsa: no device

[Thaden <thaden@freenet.de>]

Am Don, 2002-11-07 um 20.41 schrieb Jack O'Quin:
> Thaden <thaden@freenet.de> writes:
> 
> > I'm running debian sarge, and after reading a good many google hints,
> > faqs, etc (also the bit on linuxorbit.com) i still can't get alsa to
> > play any sound.
> > 
> > thanks for any hints,
> 
> A few hints from *you* would be helpful, too.  :-)

er, sorry, yes.
> 
> I presume you have a sound card.  Which one?
it's an onboard c-media chip cm 8738

> What does /etc/modutils/alsa contain?

alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore

options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660
snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias snd-card-0 snd-cmpci
#alias snd-card-1 snd-serial
#alias snd-card-2 snd-share
#alias snd-card-3 snd-virmidi

alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-slot-2 snd-card-2
alias sound-slot-3 snd-card-3


snd-cmipci.o is in the appropiate /lib/modules directory

> 
> Does "lsmod" show that any snd* drivers are loaded?
"lsmod | grep snd" shows the following:
snd-seq-midi            3232   0 (unused)
snd-rawmidi            12864   0 [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq-midi-event      3096   0 [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq                37484   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-timer              10432   0 [snd-seq]
snd-seq-device          3904   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq]
snd                    25704   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3684   2 [cmpci snd]


still clueless,

thaden.