I'm a bit ashamed about posting this, but I couldn't find anyone with
a similar problem googling. I admit up front that I'm ALSA-ignorant
so this could well be a silly configuration issue...
This is a Dell Latitude C640 with
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
I tried using ALSA in kernel or modular, but the three apps I use
(xmms, xine and gmplayer) all report -ENODEV on /dev/dsp. This is
/var/log/messages with in-kernel ALSA:
Dec 28 10:53:41 incident kernel: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.7 (Thu Sep 25 19:16:36 2003 UTC).
Dec 28 10:53:41 incident kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Dec 28 10:53:41 incident kernel: ALSA device list:
Dec 28 10:53:41 incident kernel: #0: Intel 82801CA-ICH3 at 0xd800, irq 11
and the card appears to be properly detected under /proc/asound;
this is the output when loaded as modular:
[asuardi@incident asound]$ ls
card0 cards devices I82801CAICH3 oss pcm timers version
[asuardi@incident asound]$ cat devices
0: [0- 0]: ctl
25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture
16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
33: : timer
[asuardi@incident asound]$ cat pcm
00-00: Intel ICH : Intel 82801CA-ICH3 : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: Intel ICH - MIC ADC : Intel 82801CA-ICH3 - MIC ADC : capture 1
[asuardi@incident asound]$ cat timers
G0: system timer : 1000.000us (10000000 ticks)
G1: RTC timer : 976.562us (100000000 ticks)
P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE
P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE
P0-1-1: PCM capture 0-1-1 : SLAVE
[asuardi@incident asound]$ cat version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.7 (Thu Sep 25 19:16:36 2003 UTC).
Compiled on Jan 3 2004 for kernel 2.6.1-rc1.
Using i810_audio from OSS just works; in 2.4 I've always been
using OSS successfully, ALSA never worked in any 2.5.x I've
tried.
Thanks in advance,
--alessandro
"Immagina intensamente e vedrai
dove gli altri pensano che non ci sia niente"
(Cristina Dona', "Salti nell'aria")
Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> I'm a bit ashamed about posting this, but I couldn't find anyone with
> a similar problem googling. I admit up front that I'm ALSA-ignorant
> so this could well be a silly configuration issue...
[snipped the /proc/asound details]
And it was; thanks to Gunther Sohler who tipped me the right way I
installed the software I was missing (alsa-lib, alsa-driver and
alsa-tools plus the xmms-alsa plugin), unmuted the audio channels
by means of alsamixer (*the* problem - somehow the channels are
muted by default), set volume for what I use and now xine/xmms
play audio fine.
As a bonus I cleared my mind about a few differences between ALSA
and OSS :)
Sorry for the waste of bandwidth and thanks again,
--alessandro
"Immagina intensamente e vedrai
dove gli altri pensano che non ci sia niente"
(Cristina Dona', "Salti nell'aria")