Re: [Fwd: Re: Sound problem: apparently I don't have the alsa modules up yet after all
among others.
I'm going to systematically recapitulate for myself, and sharing, the settings
I have achieved so far for sound (the video problem is one of blurring digits,
and I'll get to that later if I have time).
joehill:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:02.0 Communication controller: Conexant: Unknown device 2f20
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
joehill:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-intel8x0 19584 1
snd-ac97-codec 59576 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm-oss 38176 0
snd-mixer-oss 13432 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-pcm 59272 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer 14148 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 34276 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore 3940 4 [snd]
snd-page-alloc 4936 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd]
input 3648 0 (autoclean)
i830 68476 1
agpgart 46244 10 (autoclean)
apm 9964 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 23880 1 (autoclean)
lp 6724 0 (autoclean)
parport 26504 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
af_packet 13000 1 (autoclean)
usb-storage 65088 0 (unused)
e100 50036 1
ehci-hcd 18412 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 23344 0 (unused)
usbcore 62924 1 [usb-storage ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
sd_mod 11756 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 95108 2 [usb-storage sd_mod]
ide-cd 31296 0
cdrom 29828 0 [ide-cd]
rtc 6440 0 (autoclean)
ext3 81068 5 (autoclean)
jbd 42468 5 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean) (unused)
piix 9096 2 (autoclean)
ide-disk 16800 6 (autoclean)
ide-core 108568 6 (autoclean) [usb-storage ide-cd ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix 14960 218 (autoclean)
Okay, as before the symptom is I can play the songs on a Duke Ellington CD, but
the tracks show playing with no actual sound coming out. The program I'm using
is CD Player under Multimedia under the Applications pulldown. We determined
previously that no cables were obviously connected badly (I have a green sound
cable going into the appropriately labeled "line out" green plug in the back of
the machine, and you'll see by the specs on the net (http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:9PkH8iJNtvQJ:www.cyberscholar.com/eMachines/doc/spring05_3985_SF.pdf+T3985+Desktop+PC+&hl=en)
that the thing has on-board sound and the bios has this enabled (just checke
again). My friend Bill Warner suggested these problems may happen from some kind
of conflict with the video driver, and that my problems might be best solved if
I install Sid (test) instead of sarge, but I'd like to have sarge going because
I want to use the system to help QA web stuff from my work.
Finally, I will review below as I go through my setup steps from this instruct-
ions page (http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/alsa.html#sargestock) I immediately
see that I do not have an /etc/modules directory, so that must have changed in
mid-sarge, presumably. I see the string "snd-intel8x0" in modules.conf. The
file has all the stuff listed in step 3 of the above referenced instructions,
and it also has a bunch of stuff that says "oss" on it, like:
above sound-slot-0 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-oss
.
.
.
above sound-slot-7 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
.
.
.
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
and I wonder if I need to delete these or comment them out...?
There is a whole mess of different discover files and directories in here too,
including a /etc/default/discover, /etc/init.d.discover, discover.d, and
discover.conf.d, and discover-v1.conf, and discover.conf-2.6 and
discover-modprobe.conf. I wonder if I just deleted all those things if it
might somehow improve the state of politics in the world.
Anyhow, if anybody out there could get me a little further with this additional
information, I'd sure appeciate it. I'd like to know I can really use this
machine before the takeback time (next Friday is the last day) comes due.
Sincerely, Xeno Campanoli