[linux-audio-user] sound on debian 2.4.26

[Laura Conrad]

Thanks to everyone who wrote with helpful advice. 

I have tried most of the suggestions, and am still getting no sound.


    First I got the agnula kernel.  I used the advice at
    <http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installkernelandsound.html#SECTION00023200000000000000>
    to configure the alsa implementation.  When I ran that, i got no
    sound and no error message.

    I downloaded the 2.6 kernel, and got a kernel oops when I tried to
    reboot.

    I tried booting the knoppix CD, which has kernel 2.4.26 and oss,
    and it wouldn't play sound either.

    I tried booting back to 2.4.l8, and it doesn't play sound now
    either.  I tried removing the alsa apps and going back to oss,
    which really used to work.  It doesn't now, but it isn't clear
    that I really removed all the alsa stuff, although the loaded
    modules look like the oss ones to me.  This version gives me an
    error message when I try to play a MIDI file:

          $ timidity score.midi
            Couldn't open output device

I have some questions, none of which may be relevant, but I really
need sound to work:

     I believe that via82cxxx_audio is the module for the soundcard
     that's on the motherboard, which I don't want to use.  Why does
     it keep loading it, even though I have told the bios to turn it
     off?  And how do I make it stop loading this module?

     /proc/interrupts reports that both the SB-Live and the onboard
     sound are sharing interrupt 9.  Is this likely to be causing
     problems?

     Does anyone have any idea what changed between kernel 2.4.18,
     when OSS sound worked, and 2.4.25 when it doesn't?

     I believe the 2.6 kernel that I loaded was 2.6.7 -- is it likely
     that a less recent one would work better?

     i have checked the connections, and the speakers certainly work
     when I'm driving them from something other than my computer, and
     the computer seems to be seeing the SBLive soundcard in the
     normal ways, but is there any chance that something's wrong with
     the soundcard that just happened at the same time as I started
     playing kernel games?

Is there anything else I should be trying?

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