#153 Alsa general problem ...

[LAMBEAU Bernard]

PC : laptop Dell Latitude Cpi D266XT
Sound card : Crystal (Cirrus Logic) CS4237B - module
cs4236.o
Linux distrib : Debian
Linux kernel : 2.4.16
Alsa version : 0.9

alsa-driver configure & make & make install OK
alsa-lib configure & make & make install OK

./snddevices works fine.
chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi

without problem !

alsa-utils configure OK
alsa-utils make :
>Making all in alsamixer
>make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-0.9.0rc5/alsamixer'
>source='alsamixer.c' object='alsamixer.o' libtool=no \ >depfile='.deps/alsamixer.Po'
>tmpdepfile='.deps/alsamixer.TPo' \ >depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../depcomp \ >gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -g -O2 -c
`test -f >alsamixer.c || echo './'`alsamixer.c
>alsamixer.c:117: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
>make[1]: *** [alsamixer.o] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-0.9.0rc5/alsamixer'
>make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I disabled alsamixer make in Makefile ... that's work !

/etc/init.d/alsasound start
>Starting sound driver: snd-cs4236 done
>No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to
unmute your card!

result of lsmod :
>Module Size Used by Tainted: P
>snd-cs4236 19808 0 (unused)
>snd-cs4231 19392 0 [snd-cs4236]
>snd-mixer 27656 0 [snd-cs4236 snd-cs4231]
>snd-pcm 31904 0 [snd-cs4231]
>snd-timer 9600 0 [snd-cs4231 snd-pcm]
>snd 33568 0 [snd-cs4236
snd-cs4231 snd-mixer snd-pcm snd-timer]
... i think it's ok !

amixer :
>amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or
directory

alsaplayer :
>snd_pcm_open: No such file or directory (default)
>/usr/local/lib/alsaplayer/output/libalsa_out.so failed
to load error opening /dev/dsp
>/usr/local/lib/alsaplayer/output/liboss_out.so failed
to load
>NOTE: THIS IS THE NULL PLUGIN. YOU WILL NOT HEAR
SOUND!!
>...done playing

mpg321 test.mp3 :
>Playing MPEG stream from Eva Cassidy - Ain't No
Sunshine.mp3 ...
>MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo
>Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?)

I thing it's something wrong ?

thx
A+
Bernie
blambeau@student.info.ucl.ac.be