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Niek
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 Posted: Tue May 14, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject: How to get via8233/ALSA working? |
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Hello,
I try to get my onboard via8233 soundcard working with ALSA. I merged alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-utils, alsa-tools and alsa-oss.
My /etc/modules.d/alsa looks like this: | Code: | alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss |
And this is my /etc/modules.d/aliases | Code: | alias snd-card-1 snd-via8233
alias snd-card-2 snd-via8233
alias snd-card-3 snd-via8233
alias snd-card-4 snd-via8233
alias snd-card-5 snd-via8233
alias snd-card-6 snd-via8233
alias snd-card-7 snd-via8233 |
I added alsasound to the boot-runlevel with 'rc-update add alsasound boot'. My kernel have sound support (CONFIG_SOUND=y), but no other sound modules. When I reboot I see no errors, and it seems that ALSA is running OK.
But when I try to play a file, I get this error:
| Code: | tussen root # aplay /usr/kde/3/share/sounds/pop.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/kde/3/share/sounds/pop.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:411:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed: Input/output error |
Do anyone know how I can solve this problem?
Greetings, Niek. |
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FINITE
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| Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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I am having the same exact problem. I havn't goten eny closer to getting it to work either. Pleas post here if you figured it out. Thanx  |
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thorne
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| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 6:03 am Post subject: |
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Using the alsa setup doc under the documentation page of gentoo.org got my card working with alsa, but I wasn't too satisfied with the sound quality and performance drop in video playback. Of course, that drop in performance could just be an error on my part, or a fluke on my system.
Check it out the The ALSA Configuration Guide. Make sure you follow it word for word. It does work.
All of the docs are here.
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cbrese
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:58 am Post subject: |
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I'm having the same problem
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ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:481:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed: Input/output error
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Did you find a solution?
I'm using a VIA VT8235 SB and the snd-via82xx driver and have followed the Gentoo Alsa Guide. |
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Gnufsh
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| sound support, I think, needs to be a module, not compiled in to the kernel. |
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cbrese
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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That not the problem, but just incase I did an make mrproper and rebuilt my kernel and modules.
Any other ideas? |
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boglin
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same card, and it will work
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#env ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" emerge alsa-driver
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,to install ALSA drivers. Then change all your 'snd-via8232' to 'snd-via82xx' (with the x's not the number of you card). |
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| boglin wrote: | I have the same card, and it will work
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... Then change all your 'snd-via8232' to 'snd-via82xx' (with the x's not the number of you card). |
Exactly.
Re-emerging alsa is most probably not necessary.
Rebooting might be necessary in this case (misconfigured alsa can be really stubborn, I guess because it's loadad at boot-runlevel). |
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cbrese
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Still having problems.
I've tried rebooting, reemerging alsa, rebuilding the kernel, etc.
I have alsa working on a couple of other machines and I've never had this problem.
I'm still getting this error
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ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:481:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed: Input/output error
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When I do a cat /proc/pci, I get this
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Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge (rev 0).
Bus 0, device 17, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
IRQ 255.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe40f].
Bus 0, device 17, function 5:
Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80).
IRQ 11.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff].
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Here's my /etc/modules.d/alsa
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# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
## ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
## OSS/Free portion
## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
##
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
## OSS/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=1
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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here's my /etc/modules.d/alsa (in case there's a difference: I don't notice it; bedtime  ):
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-2 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-3 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-4 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-5 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-6 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-7 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-8 snd-via82xx
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
Hope it's any use.
My /cat/proc/pci is identical. |
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cbrese
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Some more info...
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# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-via82xx 9196 0
snd-pcm 63904 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-timer 11944 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 3520 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi 14848 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 4348 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 30724 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd 28748 0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 3524 0 [snd]
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Also I don't have a /dev/dsp and /dev/sound is empty |
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cbrese
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| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:15 am Post subject: |
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I still can't get my sound to work. I've tried upgrading to 0.9.0_rc8 from 0.9.0_rc6 and that dosen't help. I've also tried replacing via8233.c with the lastest version from the alsa cvs.
I also tried a knoppix 3.1 cd and it could get the sound working either.
I can't think of anything else to try. |
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| Wild guess: think about hardware-related problems: check dmesg for IRQ problems, check your BIOS to double-check the sound card has been enabled, try and assign an interrupt for the soundcard....things like that. |
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cbrese
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| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:36 am Post subject: |
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The sound card is enabled in the BIOS, I tried disabling it to see what whould happen, but then the modules wouldn't even load.
Currently I have the BIOS handeling IRQ's automaticaly, I'll try turning it off.
I just built alsa from the most current cvs snapshot, but that didn't help.
I wonder if devfs could be the problem since I don't have a /dev/dsp and /dev/sound/ is empty. One wierd thing is ls /dev/snd returns this
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controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p pcmC0D1c pcmC0D1p timer
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cbrese
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 4:10 am Post subject: |
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I still don't have my sound working, but I think the problem is IRQ related.
If I pass acpi=off pci=biosirq on the kernel line in grub I don't get the error message anymore, but I still don't get any sound and there is still no /dev/dsp. |
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Isomorph
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject: I found a solution. |
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I had the same problem after i upgraded to gentoo 1.4 from 1.2.
But now I have solved it.
I downgraded to version 0.9.0-r2 for
alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils.
Just put 0.9.0-r6 in your /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
file like this
# aplay don't work on via8233
=media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc6
=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_rc6
=media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc6
And change ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" to ALSA_CARDS="via8233" for this version.
and change snd-via82xx to snd-via8233 in /etc/modules.d/alsa
Thats all. I still get some warning when I start alsasound but I got sound. |
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mart_man00
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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im getting a "ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:524:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed: Input/output error" error to with my sound blaster live, but i dont know what im doing? how did i get this thing setup?
also, how do you think the new alsa sounds?
thanks |
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erob
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 9:22 pm Post subject: alsa?!?! -> update the kernel |
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hi folks,
i tried everything with alsa, everything that is in this forum.... when I got my VT8233 working I got a scatching noise and my sounds at the same time.
For a Solution, you need to update your kernel... (as I read in a german thread! and it works)
read my post in this thread got futher instructions.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56076&highlight=vt8233
got fablolous sound now!
hope you all will too!
erob |
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