ALSA with kernel 2.6.7

[Gilles Fourchet]

Thanks Jason.

I indeed had the OSS driver selected along with the ALSA one.

That solved it.

Thanks,

Gilles

Anton Markov wrote:

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>Hi Gilles,
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>Is this the first time you are trying to use the ALSA drivers?
>
>Make sure you have the alsa-base, alsa-headers, alsa-utils, and
>libasound2 (or maybe libasound1 on sarge) packages.
>
>Did you include the old OSS drivers in the kernel? If yes, they could be
>conflicting with your alsa drivers:
>
>Check what alsa modules are loaded:
># lsmod | grep "snd-"
>
>Use rmmod to unload the old OSS drivers if necessairy. Then run:
># modprobe <name of the alsa module for your audio card>
>
>"alsaconf" should have told you the name of the module to use for your
>card. The module starts with "snd-".
>
>Finally, check the permissions on /dev/snd/* and make sure they are r/w
>for the "audio" group. Then make sure your username is in the audio
>group. "groups <your username>" should tell you what groups you are in.
>
>The permissions should look like:
>crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,   0 Apr  2 13:44 controlC0
>crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,  32 Apr  2 13:44 controlC1
>...
>etc.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>Gilles Fourchet wrote:
>  
>
>>I have just compile a brand new kernel 2.6.7 on Debian Sarge.
>>Everything is fine except for the Alsa part.
>>
>>I have used alsaconf and snddevices to configure everything.  Alsaconf
>>recognize my sound card without any problem.  However, when I do an
>>"alsactl restore", I get "alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards
>>found...".  If I start alsamizer, I get "alsamixer: function
>>snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device".
>>
>>The other weird thing is that, if I start XMMS, I of course get an error
>>when I configure it to work directly with Alsa.  However, it works fine
>>if I configure XMMS to work with OSS.
>>    
>>
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