ALSA not working with a Santa Cruz

amanset

Hi,

After failing to get my Santa Cruz working with the kernel drivers (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21333) I have been trying to get ALSA to work instead and I am still getting problems.

I know this card works. It works fine in Windows.

My /etc/modules.d/alsa looks like this:

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:35 pm Post subject:

Apologies if you already know this, but the ALSA drivers mute all sound channels by default, so you won't hear anything until you unmute them. Try running amixer or alsamixer to get it unmuted.

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:35 pm Post subject:

Apologies if you already know this, but the ALSA drivers mute all sound channels by default, so you won't hear anything until you unmute them. Try running amixer or alsamixer to get it unmuted.

amanset · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tip, but I have that covered as well.

I have:

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 8:15 pm Post subject:

Oops, double posted

What version of the drivers are you using? The rc2 version is still the latest shown in portage, unless you use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", but I've used rc3, rc4, and I'm currently using rc5 (with a Santa Cruz), and everything works fine. rc4 and above should also automatically give you multi channel sound, so give them a try if you haven't already. My /etc/modules.d/alsa looks pretty much the same as yours, and as far as I can see all the modules you need are there. What did you do with the sound options when you compiled your kernel? I think you just need to compile in the basic sound support and leave out everything else.

Edit: Oh yeah, one other thing that's worth a try: look at the back of your computer, and check which port on the card your speakers are connected to. If it's the one right next to the joystick port, try it in the next one along.

amanset · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:27 pm Post subject:

Wedge_ · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:45 pm Post subject:

I get the same messages, but they don't seem to cause any problems, so I've just been ignoring them

I can't think of anything else to try just now

I'll post back if I think of something.

amanset · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your help, anyway.

A friend who has also been helping me found this:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Failure+to+write+the+GPIO+pins+for+slot+12&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=pan.2002.10.28.04.54.02.777969%40sbdj.dontevenbothertospamme.co.uk&rnum=1

Where someone using Redhat 8 has the same problem. He also writes that it worked with an earlier version of Redhat. My friend speculates that it could mean either a kernel problem or a GCC 3.2 problem.

I will probably try and older kernel to see if I get anywhere, but trying an odler version of GCC is goign a bit too far...

Wedge_ · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 3:08 pm Post subject:

A couple of other things you could try (I don't know if these will help or not, but I've always had mine set up like this): compile the basic sound support into the kernel instead of as a module, and before you emerge the alsa-driver package, do export ALSA_CARDS=cs46xx, which makes it build only the modules for the cs46xx chipset cards. I don't know if it'd make a difference, but what kernel version are you using? I've used gentoo-sources (r7 and r9) and I'm currently using the latest lolo-sources kernel, and ALSA worked with all three.