[linux-audio-user] VXPocket v2 fixed - mostly

Jonathan Beilin jbeilin at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 4 18:55:58 EDT 2004


OK so I mostly fixed the problems however i have to run vxloader manually.

Sorry for the noise.


>From: "Jonathan Beilin" <jbeilin at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: A list for linux audio users 
><linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
>To: linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu
>Subject: [linux-audio-user] VXPocket v2 help please
>Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:34:30 -0700
>
>I have a VXPocket v2 PCMCIA soundcard. I got pcmcia-cs working just fine 
>and followed all the ALSA install instructions on the alsa-project. I 
>started the pcmcia service and started alsasound. /proc/asound lists card0 
>(i8x0) and card1 (vxpocket). cat devices lists, for card 1,
>32: [1- 0]: ctl
>36: [1- 0]: hardware dependent .
>
>aplay -l lists no playback for this card, and alsamixer reports no mixer 
>elems found for the card. xmms output plugin, predictably, also lacks an 
>option to output to the card.
>
>
>any idea what's wrong? gentoo, running kernel 2.6.4-mm1 on a dell 8600.
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>
>here are the steps I took during installation:
>(for those unfamiliar with gentoo, the emerge command is used to compile & 
>install packages)
>
># emerge pcmcia-cs
>(copied some other guy's config.opts since cardmgr crashes w/ default 
>options.)
>
># emerge alsa-utils
># emerge alsa-tools
># emerge alsa-firmware
>
>copied vxpocket.conf from alsa source to /etc/pcmcia
>
>compiled a new kernel with ISA, PCMCIA, and ALSA support, with the VXPocket 
>driver compiled in (not as modules).
>
>added these lines to /etc/modules.d/alsa:
>alias snd-card 0 snd-intel8x0
>alias snd-card-1 snd-vxpocket
>post-install snd-vxpocket /usr/bin/vxloader
>options snd cards_limit=2
>
># modules-update
>
>restarted computer with the new kernel.
>
>#/etc/init.d/pcmcia start
>#/etc/init.d/alsasound restart
>
>(I also tried removing the i8x0 lines and making snd-vxpocket card 0 but 
>that failed also. the intel i8x0 sound works just fine, it's just the 
>vxpocket that is presenting a problem)
>
>Thanks again!
>
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