[PlanetCCRMA] alsamixer not finding audio devices

Wed Nov 3 10:40:03 2004

Noah,
   You are going down a path that's not going to work well:

1) If you run your own kernel, then you build your own Alsa and you
cannot use PlanetCCRMA binary packages that Fernando puts together.

2) If you want to use the Planet, then you need to run the Planet's
kernel. Anything other then this (TTBOMK) is asking for trouble that
isn't worth the effort.

I have two types of machines - PlanetCCRMA machines. I take what I get
here and I'm very happy. I have Gentoo machines. I take what they
offer and build from source when I need to.

Both of the above options work well for me. I think that you'll nevel
get apt to be happy with your system unless you build your own
'Planet' kernel and handle Alsa as apt expects you to.

Just my thoughts. I tried it once....

- Mark

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:33:27 -0800, Noah Garrett Wallach
<logic@enabled.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:08:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
> > You need to faithfully and fully follow the instructions on this
> > page I think...
> >
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installkernelandsound.html
> 
> 
> Okay read through the documentation and I am still lost.
> 
> Here is my expereince:
> 
> 1) built my own custom kernel called 2.4.21-20.ELcustomsmp
> 2) I find alsa is not supported in it.
> 3) went to
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installkernelandsound.html to
> download alsa drivers.  did I download the proper files?  how do I know what
> is the source file?
> 
> --- snip ---
> $ ls alsa*
> alsa-kernel-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma-1.0.4-1.cvs.rh90.ccrma.i686.rpm
> alsa-kernel-smp-2.4.20-31.1.caps.rh90.ccrma-1.0.4-1.cvs.rh90.ccrma.i686.rpm
> --- snip ---
> 
> 4) find the alsa drivers do not match my kernel version number.
> 
> issues:
> 
> 1) what is my best next step here?  did I miss this in the documentation?
> 2) also the alsa kernel version numbers do not match my kernel version.
> should I roll back to the old kernel version - if so where do I download the
> kernel source please?  My apologies if I missed this in the documentation.
> 3) I would use the CCRMA kernel but there were issues with the windows
> managers - GNOME had errors and cant log in.
> 4) the older CCRMA kernel 2.4.20-31 does not have gig-E support so I have no
> network access.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Noah
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Noah
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:47:05 -0800, Noah Garrett Wallach
> > <logic@enabled.com> wrote:
> > > > To here, you still have the OSS configuration. Comment out those
> > > > lines, depmod -a, restart alsa (follow the directions in the web site)
> > > >
> > > > -- Fernando
> > >
> > >
> > > Fernando,
> > >
> > > okay I removed the OSS configuration so now this is what I am seeing.  what
> > > else could I have done wrong here? :)
> > >
> > > --- snip ---
> > >
> > > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 etc]# cat /etc/modules.conf
> > >
> > >
> > > alias eth0 tg3
> > > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> > > alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> > > alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
> > >
> > > alias snd-card-0 i810_audio
> > > options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> > > alias snd-card-1 rme96xx
> > > options snd-rme96xx index=1
> > >
> > > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > > alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
> > >
> > > # --- ALSA configuration
> > > alias char-major-116 snd
> > > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > >
> > > #--- OSS compatibility alias
> > > 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 sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > > alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > > alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
> > >
> > > #--- Options
> > > options snd cards_limit=2
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > #--- Keep modules from being autocleaned
> > > add options -k snd-card-0
> > > add options -k snd-card-1
> > > #--- ALSA configuration END
> > >
> > > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 etc]# /sbin/depmod -a
> > > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound stop
> > > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start
> > > Sound driver i810_audio is already loaded
> > > Sound driver rme96xx is already loaded
> > > [root@dhcp-183-1-168-192 etc]# alsamixer
> > >
> > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
> > >
> > > --- snip ---
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > > Noah
> > >
> > >
> > >
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