Help on Alsa on Debian Sarge
I needed Alsa for the Gatos programs which can drive my
ATI video capture card. So I installed a bunch of Alsa stuff
using Kpackage -- including alsa-base 1.0.87, alsamixergui,
alsa-headers, alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-386 -- (I previously installed
kernel image 2.4.27-2-386 and am running that) -- alsa-oss,
alsaplayer-alsa, alsaplayer-common, alsaplayer-daemon.
Since then, not only does the sound on Gatos still not work,
but my KDE startup sound does not play until 2 minutes after starting up.
The KDE system sounds work, and some programs such as Noatun
and Audacity work, but Xmms -- with Xmms, when I set the output plugin
to Alsa, I got garbage sound; then I set it to OSS, and the Xmms sound
now works.
In my attempts to get this to work, I ran alsaconf and got these 2 lines
in a file "sound" which I put into /etc/modprobe.d:
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 ac97_clock=0 ac97_quirk=-1 enable=1 index=0 joystick=0
Also I added those 2 lines to my /etc/modules file. I don't know if any of
that helped.
Now, doing lsmod, the lines pertaining to sound are the following:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-intel8x0 16704 1
snd-ac97-codec 48280 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm-oss 34048 0
snd-mixer-oss 11000 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-pcm 50216 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer 12548 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 28260 1 [snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss
snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore 3268 4 [snd]
snd-page-alloc 4296 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm
snd-timer snd]
I see OSS there, but I don't see any ALSA. Also, I notice that even after I
supposedly installed Alsa, I still get artsd loaded. One problem is, I don't
understand the relative jurisdictions of all these components -- OSS, Arts,
Alsa, -- I don't know what each one is supposed to do, and how they fit
together, or if they are stepping on each other's toes, or what.
Any help would be appreciated.
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