Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:57:07PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no
> > other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I
> > will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely
> > inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote:
>
> This is perfectly normal behaviour.
>
> The GNU philosophy is, usually, to only complain in case of an error.
> Most tools will NOT output anything (extra) in case of success. If you
> get no output and the return value is 0, then the module was probed
> successfully. To confirm that, run "lsmod" to see that it's loaded; if
> it isn't, then maybe it loaded correctly and then unloaded due to an
> error (check your logs. Note that snd_pcm_oss probably won't do that,
> but some other could, I suppose).
>
> Also note that snd_pcm_oss doesn't actually load the OSS sound system,
> it just provides a compatibility layer so that programs which don't
> speak ALSA can still use the OSS interface.
>
> >
> > > Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> writes:
> > >
> > > > Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards
> > > > even with several different combinations of items parsed from the
> > > > relevant lspci line.
> > >
> > > According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try
> > > something like "rexima -d /dev/mixer". Parsing strings to rexima or
> > > aumix that have been taken from the output of lspci probably isn't the
> > > right thing to do.
> > >
> > > What exactly are you doing, and do you get any error messages?
> > >
> > >
> > > [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/rexima.1.html
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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The interesting thing is before I ran that modprobe command there was no
/dev/mixer on the system. After I ran the modprobe command though,
/dev/mixer must have been created and enabled.
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