[linux-audio-user] Problems with Redhat 9(Shrike)

[Mark Knecht]

Stew,
   As others have said, check out PlanetCCRMA. I use it on a couple of my machines and it's great for Redhat users. Fernando also tends to be pretty responsive to questions asked on that list as it's pretty low bandwidth and a very focused group of users.

   That said, I think that there is no 'Redhat sound stuff'. What might be running depends on what windows environment you are running. KDE and Gnome use different sound servers, I think. fluxbox, which I use for audio applications, uses no sound server so Alsa has nothing to conflict with.

   If you are using KDE, then there is a system configuration panel in the KDE menus, and in that panel there is a sound configuration page. >From there you need to uncheck the 'Start Arts on startup' or whatever that item says, and also tell KDE not to play any sounds. You might also want to turn off the automatic polling of your CD drive for audio disks as this will sometimes start Arts also.

   As for Gnome, I don't use it so I don't know how to help you there, but I'm sure it's probably pretty similar.

   Again, you could try out fluxbox as you will have no conflicts using it, but many GUI oriented folks think it's too minimalistic. It all comes down to preferences.

   One last option. A app called qjackctl has some commands for stopping other sound servers before it starts Jack for Alsa. You might try that out, even if you're not going to use Jack.

Cheers,
Mark
  -----Original Message-----
  From: linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin at music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Stewart Felstead
  Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:30 AM
  To: linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu
  Subject: [linux-audio-user] Problems with Redhat 9(Shrike)


  I’m attempting use the Shrike alsa rpm’s from fresh from to install alsa and it’s libs and utils.

   

  My pc is and athlon xp2000+ with an onboard via82c686 and am having problems getting alsamixer to launch. I keep getting the error no such device. My .asoundrc looks like this

   

pcm.via82xx {           type hw           card 0        }         ctl.via82xx {           type hw           card 0        } 

  my modules.conf has this in it

   

# OSS/Free portion - card #1        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                # OSS/Free portion - card #2 (cmipci)        alias sound-slot-1  snd-card-1         alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss        alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss        alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss 

  I’m concerned that I need to disable the default Redhat sound stuff but have no as the system log shows errors trying to grab the port. But I have no idea how to do that. HELP!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been struggling with this for weeks, and I’m getting pretty p$ssed off. 

   

  Rgds

  Stew

   

   
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