Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

[Tom Schutter <t.schutter@att.net>]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 06:16, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [2004.04.09.1408 +0200]:
> > I may say that I have had sound working with ALSA previously. It
> > could be that the chip is hosed. Since it's a laptop, I can't
> > really verify that. I'll try the OSS driver when I get a chance.
> 
> Semi-success: I can playback using Alsa OSS emulation (via /dev/dsp
> and the snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss modules).
> 
> So the card isn't hosed. But native Alsa does not work. I tried
> alsaplayer as well as the Alsa output plugin to the latest (Debian)
> xmms.
> 
> Getting there...

Martin, have you seen my thread "no sound with 2.6.3, nForce2, and
ALSA"?

I have just discovered the same thing you did. xmms works with the
Output Plugin set to "OSS Driver 1.2.9", but I get no sound if it is set
to "ALSA 1.2.9 output plugin".  aplay does not work at all.  It sounds
like we are in exactly the same boat!

The downside is that I do not have an answer yet.

I was thinking that maybe we are seeing a conflict between OSS drivers
and ALSA drivers, and then I saw this from the "ALSA Cannot find Sound
Device" thread:
  This looks really like there are already OSS modules loaded.
  If there any sound modules loaded that don't start with an "snd", it
  will be like that.

  Then you should remove them via rmmod and run dpkg-reconfigure
  alsa-base.

  Now the card should be found.

  Last step is to prevent Debian from loading the OSS modules while
  booting.

That is what I am going to pursue now...

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Tom Schutter <t.schutter@att.net>