Alsa Startup Question
I have recently installed the Debian ALSA 0.90rc6 packages from Debian
Testing for the 2.4.19-k7 kernel. Everything seems to be working fine,
but I get a message on startup about "no sound cards defined". I do get
sound out of the CDROM, and all other sound sources (except midi) that I
have on my system. The sound chip is the VIA8233...part of the VIA
"Southbridge" chipset used on my MB. As everything seems to be working
OK (xmms, Timidity, mplayer sound, etc), this message is more of an
annoyance than anything else, but it does "worry" me that I might have
done something wrong during the setup.
I have traced the source of this message (I think) to the alsa
initscript in /etc/init.d/alsa. There is a message that matches the one
I am seeing at about line 103 of the script, that will be sent to the
screen if a series of tests fail. Unfortunately, my minimal coding
skills prevent me from understanding what is happening, and just why the
script is falling through to this line.
I have the the sound card setup in /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 as:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
----------- etc ------------------
Is there some other place I must "define" the sound card?
TIA for any help in helping me understand this...
Any thoughts on getting MIDI working with this chipset would be welcomed
too!
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
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