[PlanetCCRMA] alsamixer not finding audio devices

[Noah Garrett Wallach]

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 at 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 at 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 at dhcp-183-1-168-192 etc]# /sbin/depmod -a
> > [root at dhcp-183-1-168-192 etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound stop
> > [root at 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 at 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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