Oh, and as an aside.

Post #101,475

5/12/03 2:14:03 PM

I have to say I'm impressed with all the progress the alsa sound drivers have made over the last year. Last year when I tried to put Mandrake linux on this thing alsa just couldn't deal with it, and it choked and died. Now I see that it lists support for every sound card I own, including the 24-bit card on my windows machine! Though I did need to run alsaconf and have it probe irqs in order to get the sound on my laptop working.

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Post #101,476

by pwhysall

5/12/03 2:25:54 PM

ALSA is fabulous...

...apparently. It's the very devil to install, which is why it's only really a runner if your distro supports it by default.

Word on the street is, ALSA is to be the default sound architecture supported by the kernel in 2.6.

Post #101,481

by folkert

5/12/03 3:06:33 PM

Aye... same thing

I've heard too... and by reading at www.kerneltrap.com as well.

BTW, Debian's install of Alsa works in Sarge and Sid... haven't had the chance to try it in Woody. The only thing I holler about is the shiiteload of modules it uses... Sheesh!

snd-seq-midi            3424   0  (autoclean) (unused)\nsnd-emu10k1-synth       4028   0  (autoclean) (unused)\nsnd-emux-synth         24508   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth]\nsnd-seq-midi-emul       4544   0  (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]\nsnd-seq-virmidi         2808   0  (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]\nsnd-seq-oss            24288   0  (unused)\nsnd-seq-midi-event      3208   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss]\nsnd-seq                38416   2  [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth\n                                   snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi\n                                   snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]\nsnd-pcm-oss            37956   1\nsnd-mixer-oss          11608   1  [snd-pcm-oss]\nsnd-emu10k1            59956   2  [snd-emu10k1-synth]\nsnd-hwdep               4544   0  [snd-emu10k1]\nsnd-pcm                57344   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]\nsnd-page-alloc          4416   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]\nsnd-timer              14536   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]\nsnd-ac97-codec         31776   0  [snd-emu10k1]\nsnd-rawmidi            12928   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1]\nsnd-seq-device          4004   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth\n                                   snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq\n                                   snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]\nsnd-util-mem            1360   0  [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1]\nsnd                    29476   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth\n                                   snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss\n                                   snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss\n                                   snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep\n                                   snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec\n                                   snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-util-mem]

Yikes! But it works very well... better than the other options out there as far as I can tell. It also support sharing the same device extrememly well, I had 4 different "things" addressing the sound device at the same time... I heard all four distinctly.

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Post #101,489

by deSitter

5/12/03 3:50:41 PM

Re: Aye... same thing

In SuSE 8.0 one had to manually install the kernel modules as an add-on package and then separately compile them - but basically it was

cd /usr/src/packages/alsa

./configure --with-oss=yes --with-seq=yes --with-cards=Spiffo --with-isapnp=yes

make

make install

In 8.2 it's integrated.

The problem issues came from inappropriate entries in modules.conf.

-drl

Post #101,488

by deSitter

5/12/03 3:45:00 PM

Good Man

One caveat with alsa - be sure when you make a custom kernel you don't double select your sound card! That is - I assume your on 8.2 - deselect all the sound cards on the first "Sound" screen, go to the bottom to the "Alsa" submenu, and pick the card from that list.

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Post #101,496

by cwbrenn

5/12/03 4:00:24 PM

I just used alsaconf...

... and it seems to work -- although every time I reboot, I get sound everywhere except when I start up "Civilization: Call to Power" -- I have to run alsaconf *again* to get it to work there. Not sure why, like I said, it works fine everywhere else.

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Post #101,502

by deSitter

5/12/03 4:15:38 PM

Arts is definitely still WIP

What's you 'Pad?

-drl

Post #101,509

by cwbrenn

5/12/03 5:00:21 PM

TP 600.

Uses Crystal drivers, 4236 if I remember the number correctly.

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