Re: [Alsa-user] Intel 82801 Sound Setup in Slackware 8.0

[Frans K. <ket...@wa...>]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:44:09 -0500
Marc Lanctot <mar...@ma...> wrote:

> 
> Hello everyone. I just subscribed to this group in hope that I will find the 
> answer to all my grief ;-) 
> 
> So here's the history: 
> 
> I just installed slackware 8.0. I would like to get sound working. I was 
> running kernel version 2.2.19, and someone told me to try i810_audio module, 
> which worked ok for small segments of sound, but sucked for mp3's (it played 
> back way too fast). 
> 
> After a few Google searches, it seems ALSA was a promising answer to my 
> problem, so I dowloaded it. Impressive package, I must say. Maybe I'll get 
> around to contributing to it this summer if I'm up to the challenge. In the 
> mean time, I compiled 0.5.12a. When I loaded my sound module 
> snd-card-intel8x0 I got the "unresolved symbol: waitqueue_lock" error in 
> snd-timer.o. After a few more Google searches, it seems a kernel recompile 
> was a good solution.
> 
> I recompiled and am now running 2.4.5. Recompiled and re-installed 
> alsa-driver and alsa-util-0.5.10. Now, it seems that ALSA loads fine (when I 
> run "utils/alsasound start") but tells me that my channels are muted and that 
> I have to edit my /etc/asound.conf. I've modified my /etc/modules.conf and 
> added:
>  
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> 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
> 
> 
> I've tried download some samples of this /etc/asound.conf because I haven't 
> the slightest clue what the syntax for it is, and there was none already 
> created. I've tried alsamixer and amixer. alsamixer says that it can't open 
> mixer #0/#0. When I add the "-c" option, it says can't open mixer #-19/#0. 
> When I add the '-m' option, it just says can't open mixer #0/#1. amixer says 
> it can't find an ALSA driver but when I do lsmod, everything is there ! Also, 
> I've tried kmix, which used to have a valid mixer (when I was running 2.2.19 
> and before ALSA installation). Now, when I open it is just has a flat panel 
> that says "Unknown mixer".
> 
> Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks a lot, 
> Marc

If you are using devfs make sure you edited the devfsd.conf file as described
in the INSTALL file in the alsa-driver directory. HTH,

    -Frans