[PlanetCCRMA] Chasing my tail with ALSA

[Michael]

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>What do you have in /etc/modules.conf?
>Did you configure your mixer and save your mixer configuration?
>If alsa activated to start on boot?
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I unmuted the soundcard with alsamixer, and used alsactl store to save 
my settings.

Is this right?

[mikes at localhost sbin]$ ./chkconfig --list alsasound
alsasound       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
[mikes at localhost sbin]$

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options ide-cd ignore='hdc hdd'
alias usb-controller usb-uhci

# -- Keep modules from being autocleaned

add options -k snd-card-0
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.1 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
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
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

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>>If I start jack, jack says on start up that I'm using a software plug, 
>>rather than hardware, but at this point, I seem to be able to use other 
>>jack-dependent apps, like Ardour.
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>You should use the "hw" device, not the "default". In a SBLive, I think,
>you will have to use a period of 512 or lower (not the default 1024). 
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How do I set this?

>>Alsa Patchbay shows only my EMU10k1 sound card, and earlier today, it 
>>actually showed my Midispaort 8x8/s (but that was way early this 
>>morning...) now it shows only the PCI512 soundcard.
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>You have to configure (manually) alsa to use the two "cards". 
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>>Patchbay also says it could not connect to LADCCA
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>That's fine. 
>-- Fernando
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At least something is O.K. ;-)

Thanks so far for the help,
-Mike

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