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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 5:31 pm    Post subject: Sound -> OSS Emu -> No Sound Reply with quote

Hi,

I'm using mm-sources with ALSA compiled in, and sound has been working fine. Then I had some problems with /dev/dsp missing and realized I left out OSS emulation in my kernel config, so I went and put that in. Now I've got no sound at all. I already checked my mixer levels and they are correct, and I don't get any errors. What could be wrong? Here are the relevent kernel config options:

Under Sound:
<*> Sound card support

Under Open Sound System:
< > Open Sound System (DEPRECATED)

Under Advances Linux Sound Architecture:
<*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<*> Sequencer support
< > Sequencer dummy client
[*] OSS API emulation
<*> OSS Mixer API
<*> OSS PCM (digital audio) API
[*] OSS Sequencer API
< > RTC Timer support
[ ] Verbose printk
[ ] Debug

Under PCI Devices:
<*> VIA 82C686A/B, 8233 South Bridge

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everything looks grand to this Goon as far as your kernel config is concerned. I'd recommend re-emerging alsa-lib alsa-tool and alsa-utils -- then make sure you replace your /etc/init.d/alsasound file with the new version and then correctly merge your pre-exsisting /etc/modules.d/alsa with the new one (if there is even a new one at all, I did not get a new one.)

Then make sure you add alsasound to your boot runlevel and you should be good to go -- at least it looks that way to me from where I am sitting.

Hope that can help!!

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alright, re-emerging alsa-lib and alsa-utils now, and emerging alsa-tools since I don't already have that installed. Is it necessary?

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where can I find the new versions of alsasound and /etc/modules.d/alsa? For alsasound, do you mean the changes described by Murf here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=97157&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just doing the emerges has not fixed the problem. Right now I do not have alsasound run at boot.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the newer /etc/init.d/alsasound file I got when I re-emerged the newest stable alsa-lib (I think that was the package that updated this file, not 100% sure though):

/etc/init.d/alsasound:
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#!/sbin/runscript
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsasound,v 1.5 2003/12/04 16:38:42 vapier Exp $
#
# Gentoo users: add this script to 'boot' run level.
# ==================================================
#
# alsasound             This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
#                       the ALSA sound driver.
#
# This script requires /usr/sbin/alsactl and /usr/bin/aconnect programs
# from the alsa-utils package.
#
# Copyright (c) by Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
#
#
#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#
#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#  GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
#  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA

#       Edited to support Linux kernel 2.5 and above as well as 2.4
#       John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>
#       July 29, 2003

alsactl=/usr/sbin/alsactl
asoundcfg=/etc/asound.state
aconnect=/usr/bin/aconnect
alsascrdir=/etc/alsa.d

depend() {
        need bootmisc localmount
        before modules
        after isapnp
        provide alsa-modules
}

start() {
        if [ -d /proc/asound ] && [ -z "$(grep ' no soundcards ' /proc/asound/cards)" ] ; then
                ebegin "ALSA Detected"
        else
                ebegin "Loading ALSA drivers"

                # I really dislike this and would like to tidy it up.
                # Anyone running 2.4 + alsa-driver willing to help me?

                DRIVERS="$(modprobe -c | grep snd.* | grep pci: | awk '{ print $3 }' | uniq)"
                if [ -z "${DRIVERS}" ] ; then
                        # Fallback on older modprobe syntax
                        DRIVERS="$(/sbin/modprobe -c | grep -E "^[[:space:]]*alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]" | awk '{print $3}')"
                fi

                [ -z "${DRIVERS}" ] && eerror "Unable to find any ALSA drivers. Have you compiled alsa-drivers correctly?"
                OSS="$(modprobe -l | grep "snd.*oss" | sed -e "s:\/.*\/::" -e "s:\..*::")"
                for i in ${OSS}
                do
                        DRIVERS="${i} ${DRIVERS}"
                done

                for DRIVER in ${DRIVERS}
                do
                        if [ ! "${DRIVER}" = off ] ; then
                                einfo "Loading: ${DRIVER}"
                                /sbin/modprobe ${DRIVER}
                        fi
                done

                sleep 1

                if [ -f /proc/asound/seq/drivers ] ; then                        SEQUENCERS="$(cut -d"," -f1 /proc/asound/seq/drivers)"
                        for SEQUENCER in ${SEQUENCERS}
                        do
                                einfo "Loading: ${SEQUENCER}"
                                [ -n "${SEQUENCER}" ] && /sbin/modprobe ${SEQUENCER}
                        done
                fi

                einfo "Running card-dependent scripts"
                for DRIVER in ${DRIVERS}
                do
                        TMP=${DRIVER##snd-}
                        [ -x "${alsascrdir}/${TMP}" ] && ${alsascrdir}/${TMP}
                done

                [ ! -d /proc/asound ] && eerror "ERROR: Failed to load necessary drivers"
        fi

        einfo "Restoring Mixer Levels"
        if [ ! -r $asoundcfg ]; then
                ewarn "No mixer config in $asoundcfg, you have to unmute your card!"
                eend 1
        elif [ -x $alsactl ]; then
                CARDS="$(cat /proc/asound/cards | awk '/: / { print $1 }')"
                for CARDNUM in ${CARDS}
                do
                        $alsactl -f $asoundcfg restore ${CARDNUM}
                done
        else
                eerror -e "ERROR: Cannot find alsactl, did you forget to install media-sound/alsa-utils?"
                eend 1
        fi
        eend 0
}

stop() {
        if [ ! -d /proc/asound ] ; then
                eerror "ALSA is not loaded"
                return 0
        fi

        ebegin "Unloading ALSA"
        terminate
        einfo "Storing ALSA Mixer Levels"
        if [ -x $alsactl ]; then
                $alsactl -f $asoundcfg store
        else
                eerror -e "ERROR: Cannot find alsactl, did you forget to install media-sound/alsa-utils?"
                eend 1
        fi

        LOADED_MODULES="$(/sbin/lsmod | grep -E "^snd" | awk '{print $1}')"
        einfo "Unloading modules"
        for MODULE in ${LOADED_MODULES}
        do
                /sbin/rmmod ${MODULE} 2> /dev/null
        done
        /sbin/rmmod soundcore 2> /dev/null
        /sbin/rmmod gameport 2> /dev/null
        eend 0
}

terminate() {
        #
        # Kill processes holding open sound devices
        #
        # DEVS=`find /dev/ -follow -type c -maxdepth 1 -print 2>/dev/null | xargs ls -dils | grep "1*1[46]," | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d" " -f2; echo /proc/asound/dev/*`
        ossdevs="/dev/admmidi? /dev/adsp? /dev/amidi? /dev/audio* /dev/dmfm* \
                        /dev/dmmidi? /dev/dsp* /dev/dspW* /dev/midi0? /dev/mixer? /dev/music \
                        /dev/patmgr? /dev/sequencer* /dev/sndstat"
        alsadevs="/proc/asound/dev/*"
        fuser -k $ossdevs $alsadevs 2> /dev/null 1>/dev/null

        #
        # remove all sequencer connections if any
        #        [ -f /proc/asound/seq/clients -a -x $aconnect ] && $aconnect --removeall
}


With this in my boot rc-level it detects that ALSA has been compiled into the kernel and simply takes care of any undone stuff (which for me I think is just mostly like Murf's post -- it restores my mixer settings autmatically. However I've not gone over this entire file and it could do a lot more that I am unaware of. Course I'm still not well versed in bash scripting anyway (is this bash scripting?!? -- hehe).

Sorry I'm not much more help here -- your configuration looks good to me. Just be sure the check the basics again and try recompiling your kernel without changing the configuration -- be sure you mounted the boot partition before copying the new kernel and be sure that you update your /boot/grub/grub.conf if need be.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay, while I did have the old alsasound, but even with the new there is still no sound. Let me check a few things out and I'll be back later today..

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You missed the most important alsa file to re-emerge, alsa-driver. Whenever you re-compile your kernel, you must re-emerge at least alsa-driver and nvidia. Before you re-emerge all the alsa files, make sure you have "alsa" and "oss" listed as USE variable in your /etc/make.conf file.

You did not say which sound card you have. The most recent "stable" release of alsa in Gentoo is alsa-driver-0.9.8. I had problems with my emu10k1 (SBlaster Live!) card. There are compatability issues with 0.9.8 and the emu10k1 card. I used the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" preface and updated all possible alsa to 1.0.0-rc2 and sound works flawlessly now.

If you want to see which alsa files are available and which versions you have installed, su to root in a termianl window and issue this command:

emerge --verbose -s alsa

You should have at least alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-oss, and alsa-utils installed.

I hope this helps,

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pluvius I think maybe you missed the point of this thread, merrimanjd is using the latest kernel 2.6.0 which includes the ALSA drivers into the actual kernel and so alsa-driver is obsolete when using the 2.6.x series of kernels. Please do NOT use the alsa-drivers if you have a 2.6.x series kernel.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 2:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, Bonez is right. Okay, so the new alsasound script starts fine, but when I shutdown it gives this error:
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modprobe: FATAL module snd_card_1 not found

There are 7 of these, snd_card_1 through snd_card_7. I assume that this is no problem though since I compiled ALSA into my kernel and the script is looking for modules. Also, I booted into my windows partition and I do have sound then, so that rules out any hardware failure. Any other ideas?

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

merrimanjd wrote:
Yes, Bonez is right. Okay, so the new alsasound script starts fine, but when I shutdown it gives this error:
Code:
modprobe: FATAL module snd_card_1 not found

There are 7 of these, snd_card_1 through snd_card_7.


I have the same problem. It happens when the script tries to store the mixer levels.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still haven't gotten it to work, but I will not be around my computer again until about January 5th...

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay, now I'm using mm-sources-2.6.0-r1 and still no sound... Maybe later today I'll try the modules route and see if I can get that to work.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:10 pm    Post subject: alsa Reply with quote

on my system 2.6 kernel, the pcm sound level is muted/zero by default (which pretty much means you get no sound...) anyway, after I emerged the gnome-alsamixer unmuted pcm, bang ! there is was. scared the poop outta me (I had xmms playing some industrial tune loud)

try that (or another alsa mixer)

its worth a try to get basic functionality
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope, thats not the problem. I unmuted everything with alsamixer.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems like a common problem now. There has to be some serious bug. Lots of people here are reporting the same problem (including me). Today I got it working for some time, but couldn't get it to work permanently. This is what I did when I got it working...
stop alsasound
reemerge alsa-lib and alsa-utils
start alsasound
set mixer levels with alsamixer

However, I can't reproduce the procedure now. It's just not working anymore! Tried stopping/restarting alsasound several times etc, compiled as modules, bultin...no go! :evil: :(
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm trying your sequence out now, stefanwa. My problems started when I enabled OSS emulation.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope... still no go for me too.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Last night I tried removing OSS emulation and rebuilding my kernel, and I found that there is still no sound. So I am not sure exactly what has changed between when I had sound and when I lost it. I don't know what else to try now.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably you forgot to load snd_pcm_oss?
I had some quite equal problem and a "modprobe snd_pcm_oss" fixed it for me..
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 4:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't
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modprobe snd_pcm_oss
because its compiled directly into my kernel, not as a module.

By the way, now my kernel is 2.6.1-mm1 with the same problem.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am having the same problem. I don't get any errors on boot up and when I run enemy territory it says my sound system is muted. But I have unmuted everything using amixer.... Strange. My sound was working well but when I was playing some music with juk the computer froze (I was using 2.6.0-test9 and kde-cvs) so that was expected. But when I rebooted I didn't have any sound. I am going to go back and see what I emerged that might have caused the problem.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I was able to fix mine. My DAC option was set to 0 and needs to be on if I want sound. Rebooting was resetting this to 0 for some strange reason. So make sure and test all your settings with alsamixer. I can't remember if this was always set this way but I suppose that it was. Strange that it just got reset like that.... I have a Sound Fusion CS46xx by the way.

Good luck everybody!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is this "DAC option"?

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is available if you one alsamixer. It probably depends on your card though. It just says DAC at the top and I turned it up and boom there was the sound.
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