[PlanetCCRMA] alsamixer not finding audio devices

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:33:43 -0800, Noah Garrett Wallach
<logic at enabled.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:04:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
> > Noah,
> >    Hi. What's the output of lsmod? Also, any messages of interest in
> > dmesg?
> >
> 
> 
> thanks for your response Mark.
> 
> --- snip ---
> [root at dhcp-183-1-168-192 log]# /sbin/lsmod

It seems that all (or most of) the Alsa modules are missing? From my lsmod:

flash mark $ lsmod | grep snd
snd_pcm_oss            45352  0 
snd_usb_audio          57696  0 
snd_usb_lib            10496  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            19620  1 snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device          6920  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_mixer_oss          16768  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_atiixp             15400  0 
snd_ac97_codec         63968  1 snd_atiixp
snd_pcm                80008  4
snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              20740  1 snd_pcm
snd                    45796  9
snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7520  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7816  2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
flash mark $ 

Also, going back and looking at your modules.conf there seem to be
some things that I don't recognize. I'm on my Gentoo laptop right now,
but here's how I set up my internal sound chip:

flash mark $ cat /etc/modules.d/alsa                
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias snd-card-0 snd-atiixp
options snd-atiixp index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=1

alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1

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 /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

options snd cards_limit=2
flash mark $


Maybe you should try something more like this to start? (Obviously I
jsut hacked this really quickly. You need to test it for sanity. May
be a typo, etc.)

alias eth0 tg3
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-intel8x0 index=0
alsai snd-card-1 snd-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