Oh - my mistake was to download only the alsa-driver package. I didn't realize alsa-lib and alsa-utils, too, were needed. OK, I downloaded and installed them. But... First, I tried DVD and TV. Well, it seems 'xine' needs an audio plugin for alsa. It now only has plugins called 'oss' and 'esd.' No sound. Then I tried 'alsamixer'. It does show the correct title VIA 8233A/C Avance Logic ALC650 rev 0 and a collection of bars. The meaning of many of them is unclear to me, but I tried to up the volumes on most. Unfortunately, when I tried to play a MIDI file with 'aplay', no sound resulted. I also downloaded and tried the old 'playmidi', but it doesn't find '/dev/sequencer'. Sakari Aaltonen

I tried TiMidity++-2.11.3, but it wouldn't compile: ........................................... alsa_a.c: In function `check_sound_cards': alsa_a.c:116: storage size of `ctl_hw_info' isn't known alsa_a.c:117: storage size of `pcm_info' isn't known alsa_a.c:152: warning: passing arg 2 of `snd_ctl_open' makes pointer from integer without a cast alsa_a.c:152: too few arguments to function `snd_ctl_open' alsa_a.c:186: warning: passing arg 2 of `snd_ctl_pcm_info' makes pointer from integer without a cast alsa_a.c:186: too many arguments to function `snd_ctl_pcm_info' alsa_a.c:194: `SND_PCM_INFO_PLAYBACK' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:194: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once alsa_a.c:194: for each function it appears in.) alsa_a.c: In function `set_playback_info': alsa_a.c:231: `snd_pcm_channel_info_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:231: parse error before `pinfo' alsa_a.c:232: `snd_pcm_channel_params_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:233: `snd_pcm_channel_setup_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:241: `pparams' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:244: `pinfo' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:245: `SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:258: `SND_PCM_FMT_S8' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:258: `SND_PCM_FMT_U8' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:260: `SND_PCM_FMT_S16' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:260: `SND_PCM_FMT_U16' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:306: `SND_PCM_FMT_S16_LE' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:309: `SND_PCM_SFMT_S16_LE' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:345: `SND_PCM_SFMT_U8' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:426: `SND_PCM_MODE_BLOCK' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:428: `SND_PCM_START_GO' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:430: `SND_PCM_XRUN_FLUSH' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:485: `psetup' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c: In function `open_output': alsa_a.c:541: `SND_PCM_OPEN_PLAYBACK' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:541: warning: passing arg 2 of `snd_pcm_open' makes pointer from integer without a cast alsa_a.c:560: `SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c: In function `output_data': alsa_a.c:590: `snd_pcm_channel_status_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:590: parse error before `status' alsa_a.c:595: `status' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:596: `SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:604: `SND_PCM_STATUS_XRUN' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c: In function `acntl': alsa_a.c:670: `snd_pcm_channel_status_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:670: parse error before `pstatus' alsa_a.c:671: `pstatus' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa_a.c:672: `SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [alsa_a.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/TiMidity++-2.11.3/timidity' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 ................................ Sakari Aaltonen

I tried, but none of the links on the page seem to work (Page Not Found, FTP Error, FTP Timeout, etc.) Sakari Aaltonen

There is a source rpm (for redhat) at the Planet CCRMA site: http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ -- Fernando

I have been using ALSA with OSS compatibility and can use xine and Timidity both. I'm wondering if you loaded the ALSA stuff properly. As Patrick said earlier, you might want to start the load from scratch. I have some docs on doing everything from tarballs on my page at http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html. It's mostly for Ardour but it might help. Jan On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 14:06, Sakari Aaltonen wrote:

Sakari Aaltonen wrote: Well it will be there if you decide to try again. OIC, Just DVDs and TV :P -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've ever done. Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002 The Scotsman

BUYO-BUYO-IGOR @Prompt-mode-only@slack8.1(2.2.19) @GatewaySOLO-2100=ESS's ES1888(or maybe ES1688) chip @PentiumMMX150@48MB-RAM would like to thank Paul on this list for encouraging me by teaching me the abracadabra: modprobe sb and that made mpg123 @ root make sound well..but my favorite Tori Amos sings in an excorcist way (sLOW) it says that the file has a junk in the beginning don't know why yet but maybe because the original file was made @ MacOS9 and burnt to cd @ Windows98 ? most of you with this chip are using ALSA ? or staying at OSS ? depends on the application that you use? mine will be Csound & Jsyn(@sun's Java1.4.x) BUYO-BUYO-IGOR--- @ micro people --- http://buyobuyo.isgenius.com

On 9 Jan 2003, Jan "Evil Twin" Depner wrote: Well, my ALSA setup could be OK right now, but I don't seem to under- stand how to *use* it. For example, I didn't know the M's on top of alsamixer's bars meant "mute" - I thought muting was accomplished by setting the volume to zero... I have no idea what some of the bars are for. amixer says there are some 20 simple controls and some 40 complex ones. This is much too complicated for me. After I unmuted Main and PCM, I did get some sound output with aplay and a MIDI file (from the old playmidi package.) But it was garbage - evidently, aplay didn't recognize the format. And xine won't use ALSA at all, so the unmuting didn't help the DVD-and-TV thing. As I said earlier, I was unable to compile TiMidity. I'm still looking for a MIDI player that I could make run. Sakari Aaltonen

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Patrick Shirkey wrote: I did, but there is not much there. Perhaps I should read the sources? Yes, xine seems to work for others; it doesn't for me. The /dev/dsp* permissions are (and were) crw-rw-rw-. Thanks for the pointer - I downloaded TiMidity++-2.10.4.tar.bz2. Unfortunately, the patch recommended, timidity-2.10.4-alsa9-pl1.dif, seems to be HTML, and 'patch' rejects it. Sakari Aaltonen

On/le Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:05:09 +0200 (EET) Sakari Aaltonen <sakari(a)aplac.hut.fi> wrote / a écrit quelque chose comme: try aumix if it is installed with your distro. Simpler one, but good looking. I had the same behaviour once with xine, but it was xine's fault: the volume of xine was too low. Hope this helps. And don't give up, it's worth the try. It can be time consuming first, but once you succeed at making sounds works, it works rock solid. [snip] Guy CLO~ ----------------------------------------------- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/guy.clotilde/index.html -----------------------------------------------