(solved) Re: my sound card does not work in etch

[qipaishi <qipaishi@gmail.com>]

You're right. With "modprobe snd_pcm_oss", I can start xmix. After 
changing volume level, I can hear TV audio from xawtv. Thanks!

Florian Kulzer wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 08:26:35 -0400, qipaishi wrote:
>  
>
> > My sound card use cs4281 and it works in sarge
> > but it does not work in etch
> > xawtv has no sound
> > xmix can't start, it says no such device
> >    
>
> Which device is missing, /dev/dsp? You need OSS emulation for that one
> to be present. (OSS is the old sound system. ALSA, the new one, provides
> legacy support for application which still expect the OSS-specific
> devices to be present.)
>
>  
>
> > below is output by lsmod:
> >    
>
> [...]
>
>  
>
> > snd_cs4281 20000 0
> > gameport               14632  2 snd_cs4281
> > snd_rawmidi            22560  1 snd_cs4281
> > snd_ac97_codec         83104  1 snd_cs4281
> > snd_ac97_bus            2400  1 snd_ac97_codec
> > snd_pcm                68676  2 snd_cs4281,snd_ac97_codec
> > snd_page_alloc          9640  1 snd_pcm
> > snd_opl3_lib            9920  1 snd_cs4281
> > snd_seq_device          7820  2 snd_rawmidi,snd_opl3_lib
> > snd_timer              20996  2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
> > snd_hwdep               8836  1 snd_opl3_lib
> > snd                    47012  8 snd_cs4281,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
> >    
>
> [...]
>
>  
>
> > soundcore               9248  2 btaudio,snd
> >    
>
> [...]
>
> Try to do (as root):
>
> modprobe snd_pcm_oss
>
> If that does not help then you should post the output of
>
> cat /dev/sndstat
>
> and the error messages that you get from running "amixer".
>
>