[Alsa-user] alsa trouble with esound and kernel 2.4.16

[Steve A. <sa...@ar...>]

Howdy:

I need some help with alsa :-(  I have a RH 7.2 setup, with the 
ximian updates and E 0.16.5.  I'm also running kernel 2.4.16-0.7 for 
a usb ethernet driver patch.  I have an sblive value card.

Since I updated the kernel, the kernel sound drivers have been 
messed up - occasional odd scratchy sounds instead of the regular 
sounds, and the mixer channels (4 channel sblive) got messed up as well.

I used alsa once before with an older redhat/E setup and an sbawe64 
card, and I eventually got it working (esound and all) but this time 
I'm not having any joy.  I compiled the latest alsa stable packages:

alsa-driver-0.5.12a
alsa-lib-0.5.10b
alsa-utils-0.5.10

but I couldn't get Tom's ESound/ALSA patch (src.rpm) to build, so I 
tried updating to the latest rawhide esound rpm:

esound-0.2.23.90-2

But I still can't get any sound.  The modules seem to load:

[root@rama SRPMS]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd-emu10k1            23120   0  (unused)
snd-pcm                31584   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer               8400   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-emux-mem            1520   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi            10048   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device          3856   0  [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec         24000   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-mixer              24512   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec]
snd                    34384   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer 
snd-emux-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer]
soundcore               4112   0  (autoclean) [snd]

When I try to load esd, I get the follwoing error:

[root@rama SRPMS]# esd
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 
16bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 
8bit failed
Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 
8bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 
8bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit 
failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 
8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 
8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 11.025Khz, mono, 
8bit failed
Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 8.192Khz, mono, 
8bit failed
Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono.
audio_alsa: no cards found!Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal.

I'm not sure what's wrong; I followed the INSTALL file, but I'm not 
sure I understand what to do next or even where to look.  Anybody 
care to help?  Please?

Thanks in advance, Steve

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