[PlanetCCRMA] ALSA 1.0.8 Feedback

Saul Lethbridge saul_lethbridge@hotmail.com
Tue Jan 18 14:02:00 2005


Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 03:01, Saul Lethbridge wrote:
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>>This probably has nothing to do with CCRMA - however everything installs 
>>fine, kudzu detects my Echo Darla 20 but jack can't load that alsa 
>>driver (nor can any other audio app)? Any suggestions on things I can 
>>check for?
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>As Mark says we need more info...
>I would immediately suspect the firmware loader, supposedly that happens
>now through hotplug but it may not be working correctly. I don't have a
>card handy that I can use to test that. 
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>In addition to Mark's questions: once the machine is up and running, do
>you see anything in /proc/asound/?, "cat /proc/asound/cards"? "cat
>/proc/asound/devices"?
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>-- Fernando
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OK here it is (thanks for your help):
Modprobe.conf

alias eth0 tulip
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias char-major-195* nvidia
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias char-major-81 snd-darla20

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commands
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[root@localhost saul]# /etc/init.d/alsasound start
[root@localhost saul]# /sbin/lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS645DX Host & 
Memory & AGP Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI 
bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: ddd00000-dfefffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: cda00000-ddbfffff

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL 
Media IO] (rev 04)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
        Flags: medium devsel
        I/O ports at 0c00 [size=32]

00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 
(prog-if 80 [Master])
        Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE 
Controller (A,B step)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128
        I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at dfffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at dfffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 
Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at dfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 
Controller (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at dffff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:08.0 Multimedia controller: Motorola DSP56301 Digital Signal 
Processor (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Echo Digital Audio Corporation: Unknown device 0010
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
        Memory at dffe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 
21142/43 (rev 30)
        Subsystem: Digital Equipment Corporation DE500B Fast Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]
        Memory at dfffbf80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at dff80000 [disabled] [size=256K]

00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host 
Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at dfffb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:0c.0 Modem: Motorola: Unknown device 3052 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
        Subsystem: Motorola: Unknown device 3020
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
        Memory at dfffa000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 
5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
        Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at dfee0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0

[root@localhost saul]# cat /proc/asound/cards
cat: /proc/asound/cards: No such file or directory
[root@localhost saul]# cd /proc
[root@localhost proc]# cd asound
bash: cd: asound: No such file or directory
[root@localhost proc]# ls
1     2     3293  3779  4485  4590  buddyinfo    interrupts  net
105   20    3305  3780  4486  470   bus          iomem       partitions
11    21    3315  3781  4489  4701  cmdline      ioports     pci
113   254   3346  3782  4490  4703  cpuinfo      irq         self
1321  2589  3456  3783  4494  4704  crypto       kallsyms    slabinfo
1322  269   3510  3784  4497  4705  devices      kcore       stat
1332  275   3540  379   4499  4725  diskstats    kmsg        swaps
1344  3     3541  382   4501  4728  dma          loadavg     sys
1504  3024  3551  4     4503  4755  dri          locks       sysrq-trigger
175   3079  3608  4109  4505  4789  driver       mdstat      sysvipc
176   3083  3618  424   4507  4794  execdomains  meminfo     tty
177   3104  3627  4269  4543  4803  fb           misc        uptime
178   3124  3646  4294  4545  5     filesystems  modules     version
1817  3175  3656  4430  4582  6     fs           mounts      vmstat
1982  3263  3667  4458  4587  acpi  ide          mtrr

[root@localhost proc]# cat /proc/asound/devices
cat: /proc/asound/devices: No such file or directory