Help with alsa.

Help with alsa.

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, list. I have a problem and I hope someone can help with this.

First, off I'll preface this by stating this is my first install of alsa,
and don't know much about setting up alsa, and have always depended on the
oss drivers supplied with the kernels.

I've already downloaded the alsa-drivers version 9.0 rc5, and have run
./configure, make, and make install.It seamed to build ok and the sound
drivers have been installed to /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/sound.
However, at this point I don't know what to do, and haven't as yet found any
detailed docs which gives me a step-by-step instructions on how to:

1. remove my existing oss sound drivers.
2.  Setup/configure the alsa sound drivers.

Any suggestion, comments, or help is welcome. Thanks.

PS
I am using a soundblaster live which is the snd-emu10k1 driver.

Re: Help with alsa.

[Gregory Nowak]

To disable oss, you'll need to rebuild your kernel without the emu10k1 driver.

I believe this is true even if you have it as a module, because you would still have a problem in the symbol table.

Greg


On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:09:57PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi, list. I have a problem and I hope someone can help with this.
> 
> First, off I'll preface this by stating this is my first install of alsa,
> and don't know much about setting up alsa, and have always depended on the
> oss drivers supplied with the kernels.
> 
> I've already downloaded the alsa-drivers version 9.0 rc5, and have run
> ./configure, make, and make install.It seamed to build ok and the sound
> drivers have been installed to /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/sound.
> However, at this point I don't know what to do, and haven't as yet found any
> detailed docs which gives me a step-by-step instructions on how to:
> 
> 1. remove my existing oss sound drivers.
> 2.  Setup/configure the alsa sound drivers.
> 
> Any suggestion, comments, or help is welcome. Thanks.
> 
> PS
> I am using a soundblaster live which is the snd-emu10k1 driver.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Help with alsa.

[John Covici]

First, rtfm applies -- the INSTALL file will tell you how to set up
alsa pretty well and if you can go on the speakup relfector many
people have sb lives so they can tell you of the weird syntax of
amixer.

You need to reconfigure your kernel so you just have sound support
without any specific board, clean out any sound modules you have
aside from alsa, and recompile.  If you are using Debian, put the
module statements in an appropriate place in /etc/modutils and do
update-modules and you should be good to go.  Be aware that
everything starts out muted in a new install.


on Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:09:57 -0400 "Thomas Ward" <slingshooter@valkyrie.net> wrote:

> Hi, list. I have a problem and I hope someone can help with this.
>
> First, off I'll preface this by stating this is my first install of alsa,
> and don't know much about setting up alsa, and have always depended on the
> oss drivers supplied with the kernels.
>
> I've already downloaded the alsa-drivers version 9.0 rc5, and have run
> ./configure, make, and make install.It seamed to build ok and the sound
> drivers have been installed to /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/sound.
> However, at this point I don't know what to do, and haven't as yet found any
> detailed docs which gives me a step-by-step instructions on how to:
>
> 1. remove my existing oss sound drivers.
> 2.  Setup/configure the alsa sound drivers.
>
> Any suggestion, comments, or help is welcome. Thanks.
>
> PS
> I am using a soundblaster live which is the snd-emu10k1 driver.
>
>
>
>
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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: Help with alsa.

[Igor Gueths]

Hi there. You're also going to want the alsa lib and alsa utils. Also,
make sure that /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound is in your modprobe search
path, or else modprobe will complain. I had this problem, and I fixed it
by installing the module to /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc. Once you have the
alsalib and utils installed, you should modprobe snd-emu10k1,
snd-mixer-oss, snd-seq-oss (if using midi). You should also modprobe
snd-pcm-oss and snd-pcm. If these modules loaded successfully, you can now
use amixer to set up all your outputs/inputs to the apropriate levels.

May you code in the power of the source,
may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hi, list. I have a problem and I hope someone can help with this.
>
> First, off I'll preface this by stating this is my first install of alsa,
> and don't know much about setting up alsa, and have always depended on the
> oss drivers supplied with the kernels.
>
> I've already downloaded the alsa-drivers version 9.0 rc5, and have run
> ./configure, make, and make install.It seamed to build ok and the sound
> drivers have been installed to /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/sound.
> However, at this point I don't know what to do, and haven't as yet found any
> detailed docs which gives me a step-by-step instructions on how to:
>
> 1. remove my existing oss sound drivers.
> 2.  Setup/configure the alsa sound drivers.
>
> Any suggestion, comments, or help is welcome. Thanks.
>
> PS
> I am using a soundblaster live which is the snd-emu10k1 driver.
>
>
>
>
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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