15 Jul
2004
15 Jul
'04
10:13 a.m.
Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
Quoting kmd <lazone(a)pi.be>be>:
i upgraded to 1.05, same problem: no error messages when playing
anything, but again no sound.
immediately worked like a charm with mdk 9.2.
unbelievable. the trouble
started with mdk 10.0. i managed to make it work after several days of
searching. don't ask me how, i woke up, booted and to my surprise it
worked. never change a winning configuration you would say. indeed.
today i reenabled the onboard audio chip in the bios, booted windows,
booted back linux and yes trouble happened.
Ouch. This reads like one of those bad soap operas where you know how it's
going to end, you shout at the TV screen "DON'T DO IT!!" but the actors
keep
continuing onwards to their doom.
alsa 1.0.2c
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is quite old. Have you considered updating to ALSA-1.0.5a?
You can try the "minimalist" approach of
just upgrading your drivers first,
and then the UTILITIES (not the libraries)... if you upgrade your libraries,
you might need to recompile/re-link every ALSA application in your box,
which would be a terrible amount of work and effort for just an experiment.
as i said, alsamixer works fine and is unmuted. amixer:
[kmd@bazz kmd]$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'DAC',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 16383
Front Left: Playback 12568 [77%]
Front Right: Playback 12568 [77%]
[kmd@bazz kmd]$ cat /proc/asound/card0/rme96
RME Digi96/8 PAD at 0xf6000000, irq 21 (index #1)
General settings
period size: 8192 bytes
Input settings
input: coaxial
sample rate: no valid signal
sample format: 16 bit
Output settings
output signal: same as input
sample rate: 44100 Hz
sample format: 16 bit
sample clock source: internal
format: IEC958 (consumer)
emphasis: off
non-audio (dolby): off
Analog output settings
monitored ADAT tracks: 1+2
attenuation: 0 dB
volume left: 16383
volume right: 16383
mandrake 10 official, standard 2.6 kernel
Yikes. I smell so much danger here, Will Robinson.
Verify the audio drivers are loading apropriately (check dmesg)
Verify mixer settings with a low-level tool like alsamixer. Double-check
MUTE settings. Check "procinfo" command for a registered IRQ on the sound
card, and that the IRQ count is non-zero. If it's a shared IRQ with another
active device, this won't give you any conclusive data.
Sorry, Monsieur KMD.
=MB=
thank you
kmd