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gsfgf Veteran
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 4:16 pm Post subject: Sound problems |
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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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huw Apprentice
Joined: 13 May 2002 Posts: 220 Location: UK
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gsfgf Veteran
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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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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huw Apprentice
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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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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gsfgf Veteran
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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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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huw Apprentice
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Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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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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gsfgf Veteran
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Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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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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huw Apprentice
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Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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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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gsfgf Veteran
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 2:58 am Post subject: |
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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
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/dev/mixer and /dev/sound/mixer both exist. |
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gsfgf Veteran
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 4:16 am Post subject: |
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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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nanobyte n00b
Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Rome, Georgia
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 2:19 am Post subject: Same error... |
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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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