SBLive + Alsa weirdness

cult hero · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 3:01 pm Post subject: SBLive + Alsa weirdness

I have no idea why, but sound always turns out to be a pain in the butt every single time I do a new install of Gentoo. I have no idea why. Anyway...

I followed the directions in the ALSA guide and here is the result:

# /etc/init.d/alsasound start
* ALSA driver is already running.
# /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
* ERROR: "alsasound" has not yet been started.

Nonething involving sound is in modules.autoload so I haven't a clue as to what's up. /dev/sound/mixer exists and so does some midi stuff, but that's it. This is after a clean reboot. I'm really confused.

lsmod produces this:
# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-mixer-oss 13112 1 (autoclean)
snd-emu10k1 72048 1 (autoclean)
snd-rawmidi 14944 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-pcm 62048 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 11848 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-util-mem 1376 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec 29572 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-hwdep 4320 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 4348 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd 28620 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi snd-pcm snd-timer snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-hwdep snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3556 3 (autoclean) [snd]
ntfs 70508 2 (autoclean)
3c59x 24912 1
hid 12232 0 (unused)
mousedev 3924 1
input 3200 0 [hid mousedev]

Sound works. It's just... the alsasound script gives those weird results.

Miles · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject:

Have you tried manually to 'rmmod' the sound modules then start alsasound?

cult hero · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 3:19 pm Post subject:

You replied while I was editting the message so... see the original.

Miles · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 3:27 pm Post subject:

Have you added alsasound to the 'boot' or 'default' runlevel. It should be added to the 'boot' one.

After changing the runlevel try rebooting and see if it's working properly.

cult hero · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:14 am Post subject:

Ahhhh.

Yeah, that was the problem all right. I go back any forth to tinker with Linux as I have time and sound seems to change every time I install. I though having it load at "boot" was optional. I know it used to run at default. But anyway, thanks.