Problems with sound

[Tyler Aviss]

Do you see your soundcard at all when you run "alsaconf"? Maybe you've
actually got an OSS driver loading and not the appropriate ALSA PCI
one (what's the result of "lspci" and "lsmod").


On 9/24/07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:57:09PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote
>
> > >   Yes, that's correct, mpg123 reports "Success" but fails.  mpg321
> > > reports an error but plays the mp3 properly.
> >
> > Has it ever worked?  What sound device?
> >
> > Does the driver version of alsa (in the kernel and /proc/asound/version)
> > match the version of the alsa library and utilities?
>
>   It was a PEBKAC error.  I built the new kernel but forgot to make it
> the default at bootup.  They say that memory is the second thing to go,
> I forget what the first is.
>
>   Anyhow I had ALSA 1.0.13 in the kernel, with 1.0.14 alsa-lib and
> alsa-utils.  That obviously doesn't work.  OK, so I've now set up the
> kernel properly, and rebooted, re-emerged alsa-lib and alsa-utils and
> audacious and audacious-plugins, but am still having the same problems
> (audacious and mpg123 which use ALSA, die; Realplayer and mpg321 get by
> with the OSS api on ALSA).  revdep-rebuild doesn't find anything wrong.
> What do I do now to recover ALSA functionality?  emerge --world?
>
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