PulseAudio

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 01:32:58PM -0800, Thomas Milne wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:07:16PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> >> The system does appear to see the soundcard:
> >>
> >> scribe at scribe14:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
> >>  0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
> >>                      HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 22
> >> scribe at scribe14:~$ lspci | grep -i audio
> >> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
> >>
> >> but dmesg seems to show nothing:
> >>
> >> scribe at scribe14:~$ dmesg | grep -i "sound|audio|snd"
> >> scribe at scribe14:~$
> >
> > Alsa doesn't believe in being noisy if things work.
> >
> > lsmod probably shows something.
> >
> 
> Ah, okay. Well, this is what lsmod shows:
> 
> scribe at scribe14:~$ lsmod | grep -i snd
> snd_hda_codec_analog    59292  1
> snd_hda_intel          26984  2
> snd_hda_codec          75708  2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
> snd_hwdep               7200  1 snd_hda_codec
> snd_pcm_oss            37920  0
> snd_mixer_oss          16028  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                75520  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_dummy           2656  0
> snd_seq_oss            28576  0
> snd_seq_midi            6432  0
> snd_rawmidi            22208  1 snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq_midi_event      6940  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq                50224  6
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_timer              22276  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device          6920  5
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> snd                    59204  16
> snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
> soundcore               7264  1 snd
> snd_page_alloc          9252  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> 
> Should it now show 'nvidia' somewhere in there?

nvidia's audio is intel hda compatible, so it is covered by snd_hda_intel.
Note that it said 'HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia' above.

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Len Sorensen
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