3 Feb
2003
3 Feb
'03
10:18 a.m.
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:13, tim@glastonburymusic wrote:
I'm having trouble with what should be a trivial
soundcard config.
Tech Spec: Debian-3.0/Linux-2.2.20 running on a P133 with 48mB RAM
Soundcard: Bluepoint/OPTi82C930 with MAD16 Driver
Problem: communicating with external MIDI device (Roland D10)
[No ALSA] using OSS
basic internal functionality for samples & MIDI is OK
http://www.alsa-project.org/ 'Tho, if you add these lines to
deb ftp://ftp.unix-ag.org/pub/mirrors/demudi woody demudi
deb ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/demudi woody demudi
deb ftp://ftp.agnula.org/demudi woody demudi
deb http://http.demudi.org woody demudi
deb http://http.demudi.org/debian woody local main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.demudi.org/debian woody local main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list ...then type dselect in an xterm, tell it to use
ftp as an access method, hit U for update when you close out of the access
window, wait for the listings to download and then hit S to select packages
...once in there... type / ...enter alsa {or demudi}, hit enter... then hit
\ to repeat the search {until you find the demudi alsa stuff}... dselect
will do the setup for you {:} Don't get carried away picking out software
...you will hate yourself for it.} In windowmaker a "setup soundcard" entry
pops up in the root menus under admin or somesuch. {Sorry... I'm not root
at the moment.} You can probably just select your card and hit enter through
the setup. {No... I don't promise. {I do think it will try to install the
Demudi kernel} :}}}
http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ {see above}
Basically every time I try to load the mpu401 driver I
get told "Device or
Resource busy". I've tried using modprobe, modconf and sndconfig, same thing
every time. CDrom audio is also disabled, and I have errors on loading unix
socket drivers (which I don't entirely understand). I've tried every
available I/O & irq combination that doesn't cause conflicts. It is entirely
possible that I'm just using the wrong syntax of course:~)
lsmod lists pcmcia_core, unix, lockd, sunrpc, af_packet, mad16, ad1848,
uart401, sound, soundlow, soundcore & joystick modules. I'm not sure if
there's anything obviously missing or conflicting.
modconf {unless that's a laptop {even if it is a laptop}}
Any pointers would be gratefully appreciated.
I guess you'll understand when I say that a functioning soundcard is as
important as video. Music will hopefully be one of the prime uses of my
setup & I'm very interested in stuff like Python OSS, tse3 & stk4 &
others
which run happily on my box already. Csound looks interesting too, but I may
need to improve my hardware
I've run debian on several {read 6 or 8} systems. Several of them have
been very weird. It usually autodetects about everything {Or I make
consistently lucky guesses in the module config bit in setup.} Why so
many problems?
Have you tried running stuff from the console rather than in x? You
really could use some more memory.
--
Rick Taylor <ricktaylor(a)speakeasy.net>
The Dispossessed