[linux-audio-user] Not able to play sound

[Narendra Shah]

I see that the relevant modules are loaded. However, when I run 'sndconfig',
it finds identifies the sound card right and towards the end says'ALS4000
chipset is not supported'

-Narendra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hall" <tim at glastonburymusic.org.uk>
To: <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Not able to play sound


> Your email is confusing, did you mean to start a new thread or have I
missed
> something?
>
> I'm not familiar with RedHat
> Have you checked that the relevant modules are loaded? (lsmod)
> and the existence of sound devices? (ls /dev/snd)
> probably useful to know what alsa version you're using too, if you're
using
> 0.5 then alsaconf should do this for you. I know that utilities like
> sndconfig write their own sections to /etc/modules.conf, so may overwrite
> your modifications.
>
> please ignore this if I've just lost the thread & I'm stating the obvious.
>
> tim hall
>
> On Friday 21 March 2003 16:29, Narendra Shah wrote:
> > I am on RH 8.0, installed the alsa-driver-0.5.10b-2mlx.i386.rpm , which
as
> > mentioned on the site is tested for ALS4000 on 2.4.18-14 which happens
to
> > be the version on my box too. I have also modified
> > the /etc/modules.conf  to include:
> > # ALSA portion
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-als4000
> > # module options should go here
> >
> > # OSS/Free portion
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> >
> > # 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
> >
> > Still there is nothing coming out of the speakers.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
>
> I assume the rest of this is not relevant?
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <toby at tobiah.org>
> > To: <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Running Csound
> >
> > > dbdbdb wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone!
> > > >
> > > > Can you tell me the way to run Csound in Linux.
> > > > I downloaded the RPM package of the canonical (jffitch v4.23) but I
> >
> > don´t
> >
> > > > know what is next to RPMize it!
> > >
> > > First, be root.  Then simply type
> > >
> > > rpm
> > >
> > > If you get 'command not found', then you got the wrong
> > > file, and should get something like Csound-4.23.tar.gz,
> > > and begin the non-trivial task of getting it to compile.
> > > If the 'rpm' command gives you a screen full of help messages,
> > > then just go:
> > >
> > > rpm -i <your file name here>.rpm
> > >
> > > and you are done, and can type csound to begin.
> > >
> > >
> > > Tobiah
>