Re: Help on Alsa on Debian Sarge
On Tue March 22 2005 12:16 pm, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:40:09 +0100, Bill Pierce wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If you are running KDE then all those applications need to send their
> output to the arts daemon rather than to ALSA directly.
>
> > 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
>
> OK
>
> > Also I added those 2 lines to my /etc/modules file.
>
> /etc/modules should only contain module names, e.g.,
>
> snd-intel8x0
>
> > 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]
>
> Please provide a full lsmod output.
>
> > I see OSS there
>
> No, the modules names beginning with 'snd' are all ALSA module names.
> Those that begin with 'snd' and end in 'oss' are ALSA's OSS-emulation
> modules.
>
> > but I don't see any ALSA. Also, I notice that even after I
> > supposedly installed Alsa, I still get artsd loaded.
>
> arts is not an alternative to ALSA. It is a userspace daemon that makes
> use of either OSS or ALSA (which run in kernelspace).
>
> --
> Thomas Hood
Thank you so much. I am attaching the complete lsmod.
I wonder if I should perhaps reinstall Debian Sarge, and there might be an
Alsa option, which the installer might do a better job of installing than I
have done.
Module Size Used by Not tainted
input 3040 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 19432 1 (autoclean)
lp 5540 0
parport 21608 1 [parport_pc lp]
i810_rng 2368 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19504 0 (unused)
usbcore 52268 1 [usb-uhci]
ide-scsi 8272 0
scsi_mod 86052 1 [ide-scsi]
e100 42868 1
agpgart 39108 0 (unused)
nls_cp437 4284 3 (autoclean)
ntfs 45088 3 (autoclean)
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]
ide-cd 27072 0
cdrom 26212 0 [ide-cd]
rtc 5768 0 (autoclean)
ext3 65388 1 (autoclean)
jbd 34628 1 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean) (unused)
piix 7784 1 (autoclean)
ide-disk 12448 5 (autoclean)
ide-core 91832 5 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix 12752 107 (autoclean)
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