Re: More Problems configuring sound card with alsa on debian
I thought the official word was that alsaconf was no longer intended
to be part of the distribution and you really shouldn't be using it at
all:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509650
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 April 2009 22:30, Dancing Fingers wrote:
>> On Apr 8, 12:00 pm, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Many thanks Nigel for your eply.
>>
>> > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 14:56, Dancing Fingers wrote:
>> > > Hi guys,
>> > > I'm also having an ALSA problem. I put a SoundBlaster card in my
>> > > Lenny box. If I run alsaconf every time I boot and everything works
>> > > fine. What I don't understand is why the system resets the conf
>> > > files every time it boots?
>> > > Thanks.
>> > > Chris
>> >
>> > Hi Chris.
>> >
>> > I assume there is an onboard soundcard on the machine as well. What may
>> > be happening when you boot up is that both soundcards are being detected,
>> > and the onboard soundcard is being set as card0, and the audigy one as
>> > card1. Most audio apps use card0 as default, so you may find that
>> > plugging the speakers into the onboard soundcard (if there is one)
>> > produces sound.
>> >
>> > To check this out, reboot, then run the following command before running
>> > alsaconf, and post the results.
>> >
>> > cat /proc/asound/cards
>>
>> This is what I get:
>> 0 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
>> VIA 8235 with CMI9761A+ at 0xd800, irq 22
>>
>> > Then run alsaconf, and set up the audigy card, then run the command above
>> > again, and post the results.
>> >
>> > If what I say above is the case, and you want the audigy soundblaster to
>> > be set as card0 (the default), you can add a couple of lines to the
>> > bottom of: to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
>> >
>> > options snd-emu10k1 index=0
>> > options snd-???? index=1
>>
>> What I tried was:
>>
>> options snd-emu10k1 index=0
>> options snd-V8235 index=1
>
> Here you want the following options lines.
>
> options snd-emu10k1 index=0
> options snd-via82xx index=1
>
> Change your current options lines in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base to those above,
> then reboot, and post the output of, cat /proc/asound/cards.
>
> The sounds may now be working, but you may have to access alsamixer on the CLI
> (KDE's Konsole, or Gnomes Terminal), to see if some controls are muted, and
> unmute them. The M key does the mute/unmute. On my Audigy2 soundblaster card,
> controls, "Master", "PCM", "Front", need their sliders pushed up to get sound
> output. Check also the "Audigy A" control. Mine needs to be muted to get
> analog output, and sounds. That is on Lenny.
>
> Let's get the sounds working, eh!!
>
> Nigel.
>
>
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