On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:08, JeeBee wrote:
Thanks Nigel, that is the one I'm currently experimenting with.
I have these installed:
# rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.11-4.rc2
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.2.rc1.fc5
alsa-tools-1.0.10-2.fc5
alsa-lib-1.0.11-4.rc2
alsa-utils-1.0.11-4.rc2
Then I also downloaded/compiled and installed the newest
alsa sources 1.0.12.rc1 from
alsa-project.org.
The modules seem to be loaded:
# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 19220 0
snd_hda_codec 142592 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 4484 0
snd_seq_oss 34688 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7936 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 54224 5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 9612
3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 43168 0
snd_mixer_oss 18560 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 79364 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 24836 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 56548 10
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_devic
e,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 10017
1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
aplay does not give an error, but I do not hear anything:
# aplay `locate KDE_Startup_new`
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup_new.wav' : Signed 16 bit
Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo
What more can I try?
# /etc/init.d/alsasound status
ALSA sound driver loaded.
This command hangs for ever:
# /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
Shutting down sound driver:
Here I would have suggested, if your using KDE, to make sure that the aRts
sound server is not running, as the card is not capable of hardware mixing,
and aRts would interfere with other apps, as it grabs the sound card. But I
would have expected some sort of error from Aplay in that case.
It's probably worth checking alsamixer on the CLI. I don't know what sliders
and switches are there for that card. The "external amplifier" switch
sometimes causes problems, and is worth unmuting that. Hit M to toggle the
switches, and make sure that sliders like "master" , "PCM" , and
"front" are
up.
Thanks for any suggestion,
JeeBee.
Nigel.