Thanks for the quick reply
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 10:52, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:14:25 +0100, Nick Pierpoint wrote:
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install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove sound-slot-0
I don't know where the install and remove lines came from or what they do. Should they be there? What should be in this file?
No, they are left over from RHL9. With Fedora Core 2, there should be entries which call alsactl to restore mixer settings made with alsamixer. Clean up all sound/mixer related stuff in /etc/modprobe.conf and rerun system-config-soundcard.
I removed modules.conf and changed modprobe.conf to:
# Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf! alias usb-controller ohci-hcd alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 options ne irq=10 alias eth0 nvnet alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias snd-card-0 nvsound
Is this what you mean by "clean up all sound/mixer related stuff"?
I tried also deleting the "alias snd-card-0" line but this stopped system-config-soundcard from starting at all.
When I run system-config-soundcard it doesn't seem to make any changes to modprobe.conf. Should it? Anyway - same result as before - test sounds play fine but no joy with xmms or gnome-cd or any other player.
You'll see 2 snd-card-0 entries. When using the snd-intel8x0 module I could get sound to work, but each time I reboot xmms is silenced and I have to go through sound card detection using system-config-soundcard. I can then run xmms with no problems
This is because you're missing the alsactl entries. Though, you need to be careful what output driver you choose in XMMS. Fedora Core 2 comes with ALSA, which also provides OSS compatibility drivers and device entries.
How do I get these alsactl entries?
My xmms is configured with the eSound output plugin - when I try to use the ALSA output plugin I get the following error message (when I start xmms from the command line):
** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such device
I get similar error messages dumped to the console when running system-config-soundcard:
[########### nick]# system-config-soundcard amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device -8 amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
Any ideas?
-- nick