[SATLUG] Sound card has started working :)

[David Salisbury]

Well, got my sound working again.  I regressed to the ALSA drivers from my 
original Slack CDs (which was version 1.0.5a) and that seemed to do it.  I 
narrowed it down to using swaret to upgrade to the alsa-1.0.9 packages being 
the problem, as that seems to be doing something to my modules configuration 
that removes some necessary stuff.  I compiled ALSA 1.0.9 from scratch and 
installed it (modules only) that way, and it worked fine.

Still had a problem afterwards where "/dev/dsp" didn't exist, and things 
compiled with only OSS support (and not ALSA) were not playing sound, but 
after some searching I found that the "snd-pcm-oss" module wasn't loaded 
along with all the others, and loading that module has indeed salvaged OSS 
support.

I'm still not sure exactly everything that happened, but I think I have a 
*slightly* better understanding of the Linux sound system and modules now. 
:)  Thanks for your suggestions, y'all!  (I still haven't upped to udev 
0.62, so I avoided that problem by accident I guess!)

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis H." <solinym at gmail.com>
To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List" <satlug at satlug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Sound card has stopped working :(


> That kind of message seems to occur to me when I haven't loaded a
> kernel module for the relevant device.
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