Sound troubles
Sound was working fine with my system until recently, and now appears to
be quite screwed up in a way I cannot diagnose. Any help is appreciated.
I am running sid with the 2.6.6-2-k7 kernel. I have a soundblaster card
that is recognized:
aloysha:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CMI8738 ]: CMI8738 - C-Media PCI CMI8738
C-Media PCI CMI8738 (model 37) at 0x9400, irq 10
1 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live!
Sound Blaster Live! (rev.8) at 0x8800, irq 5
I am using the discover package, and it looks like it has loaded the
appropriate modules:
aloysha:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
radeon 115184 2
ipv6 252320 8
binfmt_misc 10312 1
af_packet 22408 2
emu10k1 83524 0
sound 83244 1 emu10k1
ac97_codec 18700 1 emu10k1
cmpci 35168 0
pci_hotplug 36272 0
amd_k7_agp 7820 1
agpgart 33960 2 amd_k7_agp
audio 47872 0
3c59x 38760 0
emu10k1_gp 3648 0
uhci_hcd 31760 0
usbcore 107292 4 audio,uhci_hcd
parport_pc 34944 0
parport 41544 1 parport_pc
snd_emu10k1 97540 0
snd_ac97_codec 64452 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_util_mem 4608 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_cmipci 36084 1
snd_pcm 96996 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_cmipci
snd_page_alloc 11460 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 11136 1 snd_cmipci
snd_timer 25284 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9504 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_opl3_lib
gameport 4736 2 emu10k1_gp,snd_cmipci
snd_mpu401_uart 8000 1 snd_cmipci
snd_rawmidi 24928 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8264 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 55140 13
snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10400 5 emu10k1,sound,cmpci,audio,snd
tsdev 7360 0
mousedev 10068 2
evdev 9536 0
capability 4164 0
commoncap 7232 1 capability
psmouse 20104 0
ide_cd 43140 0
cdrom 39968 1 ide_cd
ext2 72424 0
ext3 125672 2
jbd 61208 1 ext3
mbcache 9220 2 ext2,ext3
ide_disk 19776 4
ide_generic 1472 0
via82cxxx 14236 1
ide_core 148512 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,via82cxxx
unix 28528 432
font 8448 0
cfbcopyarea 3776 0
cfbimgblt 3072 0
cfbfillrect 3712 0
The appropriate audio devices appear to exist (and yes, I have run
MAKEDEV audio):
aloysha:~# ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jun 22 00:21 /dev/dsp
But, I hear no sound, and when I attempt the simple test of writing a
sound file to /dev/dsp (even as root, to avoid any permission issues), I
am told that the device doesn't exist!
aloysha:/home/dcw/sndkit/dsp# cat endoftheworld > /dev/dsp
cat: write error: No such device
Can anyone diagnose the problem? Has anyone else experienced this
problem? Thanks,
David
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