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PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2002 4:16 pm    Post subject: Sound problems Reply with quote

I have a Vaio F580 w/ integrated sound. How can i figure out which sound card driver to use. All sony says in its MS sound compatable. I have MS souns system enebled in the kernel, but i have no sound. I tried the generic sound blaster driver "sb.o", but it just froze the com. Is there generic driver such as pcm in BSD?
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PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2002 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

www.linux-laptops.net listed this site

http://jeigh.com/~ian/pcgf580.html

lots of useful info on how to set up alsa with your sound card - looks like you need the snd-card-ymfpci module.

HTH
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PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2002 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I installed alsa and xmms-alsa. I moved the alsa libs from /usr/lib/xmms/Output to /usr/lib/xmms/Plugins and now when i start xmms i get this error.
Code:
bash-2.05a# xmms
fs seg 0x40172000
Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
645.209000 MHz Pentium III (Coppermine) processor detected
xmms: simple.c:1070: snd_mixer_selem_get_id: Assertion `elem && id' failed.
Aborted
bash-2.05a#
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PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2002 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a quick look on the alsa-xmms maillist - suggested this odd error is a permissions problem for the sound device.

You can edit this via /etc/devfsd.conf which has an ALSA/OSS section. If you use the defaults there you'll need to add users to the audio group.
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PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2002 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

huw wrote:
I had a quick look on the alsa-xmms maillist - suggested this odd error is a permissions problem for the sound device.

You can edit this via /etc/devfsd.conf which has an ALSA/OSS section. If you use the defaults there you'll need to add users to the audio group.


I'm running as root (I know its bad) so aren't these the correct premissions>
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# ALSA/OSS stuff                                                               
# Comment/change these if you want to change the permissions on                 
# the audio devices                                                             
LOOKUP          snd          MODLOAD ACTION snd                                 
LOOKUP          dsp          MODLOAD                                           
LOOKUP          mixer        MODLOAD                                           
LOOKUP          midi         MODLOAD                                           
REGISTER        sound/.*     PERMISSIONS root.audio 660                         
REGISTER        snd/.*       PERMISSIONS root.audio 660 
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2002 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those look OK. If you add your username to the audio group then you should be able to run as a normal user - unless you get those errors as root as well, in which case it's not a simple permissions problem.
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2002 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

huw wrote:
Those look OK. If you add your username to the audio group then you should be able to run as a normal user - unless you get those errors as root as well, in which case it's not a simple permissions problem.


I get them as root as well.
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2002 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK then it's not simple. Hmmm I would suggest a read through of postings on the alsa-xmms maillist as a start point. Wish I could help more, but I just dont have enough experience of alsa to do that.
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PostPosted: Tue May 28, 2002 2:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found the gentoo sound guide. and tried to install alsa that way. When i run amixer i get an error

Code:
bash-2.05a# amixer
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

/dev/mixer and /dev/sound/mixer both exist.
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PostPosted: Wed May 29, 2002 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

alsactrl says i don't have any soundcards. I loaded the module. What else do i need to do? It is a built in card.
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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2002 2:19 am    Post subject: Same error... Reply with quote

I am on a sony vaio fxa33 and get the same error message:

root@mymachnine chris # amixer
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

Any suggestions?
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