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Re: alsa not working



A little more info.

I can get sound in kde if I do not set the sound system
to alsa, but set it on automatic or oss...

John


On Friday 11 June 2004 21:51, John van Spaandonk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I searched linuxquestions.org and the last year of this list but
> could not find anything relevant.
>
> Problem:
> alsa sound not working.
> alsaconf is not working either. It says no pci cards found, and
> scanning for legacy ISA cards is not useful, I don't have those.
> So automatic configuration does not work.
>
> Symptoms:
> alsamixer says:
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or
> directory
>
> Additional info:
> /dev/dsp points to /dev/sound/dsp (which seems to be ok)
> I am a member of groups cdrom, audio and video
> See attached the output of lspci, lsmod
> and my /etc/modules and /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
>
> My hardware:
> Asus p4p800 deluxe
> Soundblaster live!
>
> The funny thing is that I can hear sounds just fine by playing a flash
> animation with sound, eg the casini one found on http://www.nasa.gov/home/
>
> So the hardware works.
>
> However I cannot get arts to work.
> Also xmms does not work using the alsa output driver
>
> I guess I am still missing some alsa-specific configuration stuff.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> John



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