[Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] 1.0.11rc3 on 2.4.19 on old Caldera

[Jim G. <jgl...@he...>]

Responses/comments embedded below.

Jim Gleason

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 08:36 +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Jim Gleason wrote:
> > I am having trouble getting a Soundblaster live 24-bit to work.  I have
> > built 1.0.11rc3 (drivers, libs, utils) on a 2.4.19 kernel running on a
> > very old Caldera system with limited updates (the card worked fine on my
> > debian/testing machine).  (I don't have a choice on the system.)  I had
> > to modify the /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound and /usr/sbin/alsaconf scripts
> > to work with very old versions of bash and grep. When I enter aplay as
> > follows:
> > 
> > aplay  -Dplug:cards.pcm.default -f S32_LE -c2 -r44100 /dev/urandom
> 
> Why don't you just use -Ddefault?
No particular reason - Just trying to eliminate anything that might play
a role in the problem.
> 
> What are the contents of /proc/asound/cards and
> /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params?
> 
[11:44:20 root@ccs /root]# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [CA0106         ]: CA0106 - CA0106
                      Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0410] at 0xcc80 irq 27
[11:44:28 root@ccs /root]#
[11:44:30 root@ccs /root]# cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S16_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 48000 (48000/1)
period_size: 1024
buffer_size: 8192
tick_time: 10000
[11:44:52 root@ccs /root]#
> > In /proc/interrupts, I get no or very limited interrupt action.
> 
> Looks like the interrupt isn't configured correctly.  Try enabling or
> disabling ACPI.
*** The following is from our .config file
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI=m
.
.
CONFIG_ACPI=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_BUSMGR=m
CONFIG_ACPI_SYS=m
CONFIG_ACPI_CPU=m
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=m
CONFIG_ACPI_CMBATT=m
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
*** There are not *acpi* modules currently loaded
> 
> HTH
> Clemens
>