no more sound

**mojo jojo** · 11-11-2003, 11:47 PM

Today I installed the 2.6 kernel using the rpm I found. The install was good until I rebooted and it could not find the /dev/dsp >

and in kmix I doesn not show my sound card. But other then that I have no other porblems.

TIA
Michael

**Tyr_7BE** · 11-12-2003, 12:10 AM

Well, first and foremost, how do you like 2.6? ;D

Second, what's the output of "lsmod" as root? When you compiled your kernel did you enable ALSA? IIRC, the new kernel uses ALSA for sound.

**mojo jojo** · 11-12-2003, 12:21 AM

the 2.6 kernel is well...FAST!!!!!

I did not compile my kernel I just downloaded the rpm ;D what is IIRC ??? here is my lsmod

Module Size Used by
lp 10564 0
md5 3840 1
ipv6 210496 8
autofs 13952 0
8139too 20992 0
mii 4736 1 8139too
crc32 4352 1 8139too
ipt_REJECT 6016 6
iptable_filter 2688 1
ip_tables 15872 2 ipt_REJECT,iptable_filter
ohci1394 30088 0
ieee1394 211372 1 ohci1394
parport_pc 24616 1
parport 38504 2 lp,parport_pc
ide_cd 35972 0
cdrom 31392 1 ide_cd
hid 56384 0
ehci_hcd 20228 0
usbcore 95068 4 hid,ehci_hcd
ext3 101160 2
jbd 49432 1 ext3

**Tyr_7BE** · 11-12-2003, 01:49 AM

What kind of sound card is it?

Not sure if this exists on your system, or if you don't have it maybe you could try to find it, but try the command "sndconfig" as root. You might get lucky and have that work for you.

Also, make sure you try straight up "modprobe <drivername>" on whatever driver your sound card uses.

Alternatively you could try to get ALSA up and running. I must warn you that I've never gotten ALSA working. I think I've been damn close, but every time I try it's still no deal. The best I can do is start you off based on my cumulitive experience of wading through the poorly-documented beast.

Looking at your lsmod, there's no alsa drivers listed there. Alsa drivers start with snd*. Here's my output (this is with a Debian apt-gotten kernel, so something similar to your situation).

Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 2876 1 (autoclean)
apm 10028 1 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 13304 0 (autoclean) (unused)
es1371 26220 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13428 0 (autoclean) [es1371]
gameport 1676 0 (autoclean) [es1371]
snd-ac97-codec 40504 0 (unused)
snd 31044 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 3972 4 [es1371 snd]
af_packet 13512 0 (autoclean)
uhci 25436 0 (unused)
usbcore 62604 1 [uhci]
nls_cp437 4380 4 (autoclean)
via-rhine 13968 1
mii 2464 0 [via-rhine]
crc32 2880 0 [via-rhine]
parport_pc 23304 1 (autoclean)
lp 6816 0 (unused)
parport 25992 1 [parport_pc lp]
ide-scsi 10256 1
ide-floppy 13756 0
sr_mod 14552 2
cdrom 28672 0 [sr_mod]
scsi_mod 94688 2 [ide-scsi sr_mod]
rtc 6792 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 187792 1 (autoclean)
romfs 4172 0 (autoclean)
isofs 26708 1 (autoclean)
vfat 10604 2 (autoclean)
msdos 5996 0 (autoclean)
fat 32152 0 (autoclean) [vfat msdos]
ext2 35456 0 (autoclean)
ext3 64324 1 (autoclean)
jbd 41928 1 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 10608 0 (autoclean)
cmd64x 8004 0 (autoclean) (unused)
cmd640 2820 0 (autoclean) (unused)
cy82c693 2124 0 (autoclean) (unused)
slc90e66 4848 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sis5513 11568 0 (autoclean) (unused)
via82cxxx 10696 1 (autoclean)
aec62xx 6052 0 (autoclean) (unused)
amd74xx 9572 0 (autoclean) (unused)
serverworks 8348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
hpt34x 2536 0 (autoclean) (unused)
hpt366 15396 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ide-disk 16608 5 (autoclean) [hpt366]
piix 8264 0 (autoclean) (unused)
opti621 2604 0 (autoclean) (unused)
generic 1960 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sc1200 5264 0 (autoclean) (unused)
alim15x3 7764 0 (autoclean) (unused)
pdc202xx_old 11396 1 (autoclean)
pdc202xx_new 8100 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ns87415 2056 0 (autoclean) (unused)
rz1000 1096 0 (autoclean) (unused)
cs5530 3760 0 (autoclean) (unused)
adma100 872 0 (autoclean) (unused)
siimage 8964 0 (autoclean) (unused)
triflex 2508 0 (autoclean) (unused)
trm290 2506 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ide-core 97656 5 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-floppy ide-detect cmd64x cmd640 cy82c693 slc90e66 sis5513 via82cxxx aec62xx amd74xx serverworks hpt34x hpt366 ide-disk piix opti621 generic sc1200 alim15x3 pdc202xx_old pdc202xx_new ns87415 rz1000 cs5530 adma100 siimage triflex trm290]

Modules starting with snd* are alsa-related. A complete set of ALSA modules can be found in /lib/modules/2.6.xx/alsa. Check out the documentation and see which driver your card uses. Other than that, just experiment! Try different module combinations. You can test your driver configuration by running the command "amixer" or "alsamixer." Gstreamer's "gstreamer-properties" command has been known to give helpful debug messages as well.

**mojo jojo** · 11-12-2003, 02:12 AM

I have a soundblaster sound card, when I run readhat-config-sound I can get a test sound.

When I run "modprobe emu10k1" I get this

FATAL: Module emu10k1 already in kernel.

I just noticed I cannot play music cds >

to change a permission it would be "chmod 755 /dev/scd0" right ???

the other commands you suggest I try do not work ??? >

**mojo jojo** · 11-12-2003, 02:16 AM

well I thought I should post where I got the rpm http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/

**pbharris** · 11-12-2003, 02:55 AM

hello,
i use this in my modules .conf file for alsa:

i woudl think yours should be similar.

Code:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# module options should go here
 
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
 
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

**Tyr_7BE** · 11-12-2003, 04:57 AM

OK so your kernel can do the sound thing. Could be a daemon thing. What are you testing your sound with? Try opening up gstreamer-properties or XMMS and testing OSS and ALSA output separately.