Alsa and sblive: more adventures

Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Cheryl Homiak]

I got alsa installed; I thought I had had ncurses5-dev installed prior to the
compile of the utils but when I removed the configure-cache everything
recompiled fine, so I must have been mistaken.
Now I have made an alsa file in /etc/modutils (because in debian you aren't
supposed to directly edit modules.conf), and I will show the file below.
However,  i still get
Unable to open /dev/audio: no such device
when I try to run sound.
Do I perhaps need to put irq, dma, io port, etc. in this file?
cat /proc/interrupts does shou the emuk1 at irq 11.
Thanks.

/etc/modutils/alsa
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias snd-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Cheryl -

Did you run the script "./snddevices" in the alsa-drivers
directory? It is supposed to create the necessary devices.

Chuck



On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> I got alsa installed; I thought I had had ncurses5-dev installed prior to the
> compile of the utils but when I removed the configure-cache everything
> recompiled fine, so I must have been mistaken.
> Now I have made an alsa file in /etc/modutils (because in debian you aren't
> supposed to directly edit modules.conf), and I will show the file below.
> However,  i still get
> Unable to open /dev/audio: no such device
> when I try to run sound.
> Do I perhaps need to put irq, dma, io port, etc. in this file?
> cat /proc/interrupts does shou the emuk1 at irq 11.
> Thanks.
>
> /etc/modutils/alsa
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias snd-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
>
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Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Ryan Mann]

Did you run the snddevices script? 
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, 
Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> I got alsa installed; I thought I had had ncurses5-dev installed prior to the
> compile of the utils but when I removed the configure-cache everything
> recompiled fine, so I must have been mistaken.
> Now I have made an alsa file in /etc/modutils (because in debian you aren't
> supposed to directly edit modules.conf), and I will show the file below.
> However,  i still get
> Unable to open /dev/audio: no such device
> when I try to run sound.
> Do I perhaps need to put irq, dma, io port, etc. in this file?
> cat /proc/interrupts does shou the emuk1 at irq 11.
> Thanks.
> 
> /etc/modutils/alsa
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias snd-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> 
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Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi Chuck. Yes, I did run ./snddevices.
Thanks.

Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Cheryl. Did you run ./snddevices after you compiled the alsa package? You will have to run this after compiling so that it can create the appropriate symlinks in /dev. Hope this helps. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net>
To: speakup <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 1:25 PM
Subject: Alsa and sblive: more adventures


> I got alsa installed; I thought I had had ncurses5-dev installed prior to the
> compile of the utils but when I removed the configure-cache everything
> recompiled fine, so I must have been mistaken.
> Now I have made an alsa file in /etc/modutils (because in debian you aren't
> supposed to directly edit modules.conf), and I will show the file below.
> However,  i still get
> Unable to open /dev/audio: no such device
> when I try to run sound.
> Do I perhaps need to put irq, dma, io port, etc. in this file?
> cat /proc/interrupts does shou the emuk1 at irq 11.
> Thanks.
> 
> /etc/modutils/alsa
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias snd-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> 
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Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Gregory Nowak]

Did you run the snddevices script in the drivers directory? If not, then you need to run it.
Greg


On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:25:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I got alsa installed; I thought I had had ncurses5-dev installed prior to the
> compile of the utils but when I removed the configure-cache everything
> recompiled fine, so I must have been mistaken.
> Now I have made an alsa file in /etc/modutils (because in debian you aren't
> supposed to directly edit modules.conf), and I will show the file below.
> However,  i still get
> Unable to open /dev/audio: no such device
> when I try to run sound.
> Do I perhaps need to put irq, dma, io port, etc. in this file?
> cat /proc/interrupts does shou the emuk1 at irq 11.
> Thanks.
> 
> /etc/modutils/alsa
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias snd-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> 
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> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi everybody!
I ran the snddevices; it showed the devices made; this is _NOT_ THE PROBLEM! I
know it's the obvious one; but i've gotten about a half dozen devices asking me
this and no, I never once in all the times I've compiled it, forgotten that.
Thanks for trying to help though.

Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Kerry Hoath]

no such device seems to indicate that the oss
compatability stuff isn't being loaded. I t hink 
that the oss stuff is separate in the 0.9.x drivers but am not sure, make sure
you have aliases for the oss stuff and check /var/log/syslog
or /var/log/messages for modprobe errors etc.

Regards, Kerry.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:36:32PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> I ran the snddevices; it showed the devices made; this is _NOT_ THE PROBLEM! I
> know it's the obvious one; but i've gotten about a half dozen devices asking me
> this and no, I never once in all the times I've compiled it, forgotten that.
> Thanks for trying to help though.
> 
> 
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Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi Kerry and all..
Yeah, I had already checked for those kind of errors and there weren't any. the
kernel-compiled sblive sounded like it was mono and it was murdering 'saytime"
with lots of staticky noise. Alsa wasn't producing any sound, though my speakers
came on and there would be interference in the speakers when I did totally
non-sound-related things. I finally gave up and downloaded the OSS evaluation
from www.opensound.com. Worked beautifully. I can even run two sound aps at
once if I want with the same card, which is probably possible with alsa too
but I had had it. I bought it. Am a very satisfied customer.

Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Brian Borowski]

Cheryl:
Did you load in the modules snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss and did you
build with --with-oss=yes  ?

Brian Borowski


On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> I ran the snddevices; it showed the devices made; this is _NOT_ THE PROBLEM! I
> know it's the obvious one; but i've gotten about a half dozen devices asking me
> this and no, I never once in all the times I've compiled it, forgotten that.
> Thanks for trying to help though.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>

Re: Alsa and sblive: more adventures

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi Brian. Oh yeah, I sure did, though actually I believe with-oss is the
default. Anyway, I checked after the config was done to make sure I had done
what I thought I'd done, and I checked my aliases ad infinitum. But thanks for
trying to help.