Re: [linux-audio-user] Mixers (maybe)

Steve> I think you need to run the script that creates the Steve> devices, on my machine the config is in Steve> /etc/makedev.d/alsa, but I've no idea how you run it. There's nothing like that here, but I've run /usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices several times. If you have to give it arguments, I don't have any idea about that either. Mark> So it looks like drivers aren't loaded. What's in Mark> modules.conf/modprobe.conf? In debian (I think any debian), modules.conf is a file, which is created from the files in the /etc/modutils directory. The sound-related stuff in modules.conf is: (This part is because I created /etc/modutils/alsa from directions on the net.) ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 # 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 (This part is there in any knoppix system, I think.) ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-base above snd-pcm snd-pcm-oss above snd-mixer snd-mixer-oss above snd-seq snd-seq-oss Mark> What's the output of lsmod? I think this might be the problem -- I have emu10k1 instead of snd-emu10k1, although previously when that's been the problem I haven't had anything work at all. In the current setup I don't seem to be able to unload emu10k1 without rebooting, and whenever I reboot, I get it back. I have tried telling hotplug not to load it, but it comes anyway, so maybe it isn't hotplug doing it. Another frustration is that I can't boot any kernel-image that I download (with the corresponding alsa-modules), because the knoppix install formatted the root drive as ext3, and the premade kernel-image's load ext3 as a module, so they can't deal with a root ext3 partition. I've tried several things to work around that, without success, too. -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139