[linux-audio-user] sound on debian 2.4.26

[Christian Henz]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:48:35PM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
>
> I ended up with both the alsa and the oss modules loaded.  Does anyone
> have any idea why the oss modules are loading?  They certainly aren't
> anywhere in either modules.conf or modutils/*.
> 

/etc/modules maybe? That file specifies what modules to load. You could also
try to move the modules in question out of the way (or even delete), same
goes for the ones that give you depmod errors.

> When I do that, and then run "/etc/init.d/alsa start", here are the
> modules I end up with:
> 
> snd-emu10k1            75336   1 (autoclean)
> snd-pcm-oss            39464   1 (autoclean)
> snd-mixer-oss          13848   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-pcm                61124   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-timer              14532   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
> snd-hwdep               5248   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
> snd-util-mem            1264   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
> snd-ac97-codec         55580   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
> snd-rawmidi            13504   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
> snd-seq-device          4160   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
> snd                    33508   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
> soundcore               3940   6 (autoclean) [snd]
> 
> Does this look right?  soundcore has the same name as an oss driver, I
> think.  Is there any chance I'm loading the wrong one?
> 

No, soundcore ist just the generic sound support module, it is the same for 
ALSA and OSS. Otherwise it all looks good to me. Just for comparison, here is
what 'lsmod | grep snd' gives me for my onboard Via:

snd_pcm_oss            53800  0
snd_mixer_oss          19712  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx            29028  1
snd_ac97_codec         68868  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm                94756  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx
snd_timer              24452  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11720  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7616  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            24576  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8264  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    55268  15 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9824  1 snd
gameport                4608  2 snd_via82xx,grip


> When I run timidity on a MIDI file, either from my own account or from
> root, it looks like it thinks it's playing, and I get no error
> messages as a user.  I have unplugged a usb device and removed its
> module, and this gets rid of the messages about sharing IRQ's that
> were showing up in /var/log/messages, so there are now no error
> messages anywhere that I know about.
> 

Run alsamixer again and make sure that the channels are turned up AND unmuted 
(press 'm' to toggle).


cheers,
Christian

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