[Alsa-user] no sound with stable

[Eric N. <en...@me...>]

Hi, 
I am sure I am missing something here. I am running debian woody with kernel
2.4.17 on an athlon 800 with a sblive and a delta-1010.
			and
I have no sound. I have tried catting files, wav's, what have you to 
/dev/snd/pcm* + /dev/audio and all I get is a slight buzz when doing so.
	so first some background and system info.
After installing debian and upgrading to woody, I apt-get'd all the tools I 
needed to bring this machine into X and installed ximian gnome desktop with 
apt-get. after which I installed the nvidia driver and simultaneously built my
new 2.4.17 kernel with soundcore support and _no_ drivers as instructed by the
mini-howto and all the things I read in docs. X works fine, everything appears 
normal and I install and grab the latest stable alsa sources from the main page.

Driver	Library	Utilities
0.5.12a	0.5.10b	0.5.10

I untar'ed em and systematically built them one by one as instructed in the mini
howto and INSTALL with
./configure --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes --with-debug=full
make
make install

first alsa-driver, second alsa-lib, then third alsa-utils.

after which, I added the following to /etc/modutils/aliases
*note* I have been adding a few here after reading posts and observing the 
members' modules.conf files

# alsa sound
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 sndcore
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=2
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k
alias snd-card-1 snd-card-ice1712
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-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
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=0 snd_id="SBLive"
------------------------------ snip ----------------------------------

with these everything seems okay. I insert the modules by hand in 
/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh like this

modprobe snd-card-emu10k1
#modprobe snd-card-ice1712
modprobe snd-pcm-oss

I'm commenting out the delta card driver for now since nothing works and I need
to get a grasp on what's going on.

viola. here's our modules.

blasphemy:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P 
NVdriver              818912  14  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss            20256   0 
snd-pcm-plugin         14960   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss           5152   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-card-emu10k1        2304   0 
snd-emu10k1            25856   0  [snd-card-emu10k1]
snd-pcm                37600   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer              11360   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi            12064   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-emux-mem            1840   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec         26688   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-mixer              33864   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-seq-device          4124   0  [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd                    42144   1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-emux-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device]

alsamixer works beautifully. I unmute everything and save using alsactl store.
gmix also works too. don't know if that means anything =)

so if there's something obvious I'm missing I can't tell. It appears the driver
is loading correctly and I get no arguments or stderr to speak of when loading
the modules. 

blasphemy:~# cat /proc/asound/sndstat 
Sound Driver:3.8.2-980706 (ALSA v0.5.12a emulation code)
Kernel: Linux blasphemy 2.4.17 #4 Fri Dec 28 08:31:16 PST 2001 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers: 
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config: 
Sound Blaster Live! at 0xac00, irq 5
Audio devices:
0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: TriTech (3)

any ideas, insults or pointers would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks,
-- 
Eric Nelson       		  en...@me...