Hello I'm still having trouble configuring sound for my box. I'm using the 2.4.18-596-demudi kernel and ALSA-0.9beta ... that comes with the distro. I've successfully loaded my soundcard modules (by hand). But still no Joy. I checked /proc/asound and all the inormation is there for both soundcards - ESS Solo-1 and an sbawe64 all present and correct, although I've not checked the /proc/asound files exhaustively.The /dev/snd directory is present also. As you see I have minimal / low powered setup. I need to be able to access my external synthesiser keyboard (an old Roland D10) and I'd like to use MusE / Rosegarden-4 to edit my MIDI files. I'm not expecting wonders, but I do think it's possible without having to revert to OSS. It's clear that something is not configured right, some essential link in the chain is missing or misdirected, but what? It would be useful to know what these config utilities are supposed to do. I don't know what to do next. Please tell me if there's something obvious that an experienced user would have done in these circumstances. Or if I could be asking better questions or offering more focused information. How do you define an $AUDIOSERVER? cheers tim hall What follows is a healthy portion of Luncheon Meat fyi - please prompt me if you need more | less focussed information than this. ***************************************************************************** Errors: Magpie can't parse the infolines so puts all demudi apps into 'unspecified' category - this isn't of course a major problem. Back at my desktop menu (I'm using fluxbox) Midi connection panel gives 'Error opening sequencer' MusE fails to open and proceeds to thrash the cpu at 99% for some reason. Alsa Mixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Unknown error Jack connection panel won't open. Jack Audio server brings up an xterm flashes text too fast to read and then exits. AlsaPlayer tells me that there's no $AUDIOSERVER GEM rather rudely hung the system. Soundcard detection semi-works: giving: """ Storing ALSA mixer settings ... :done Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.cvs20021017) :done Starting ALSA sound driver [..] :es1938 es1938 :done Restoring ALSA mixer settings :done Incorrect password. Try again? (y/n) """ It rewrites /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 to launch two instances of es1938, overwrting sbawe for card1 (???) amixer on the command line produces lots of text output. If I try to cat anything to /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p, I get: cat: write error: File descriptor in bad state. /var/log/messages doesn't have much to say except for a few lines of: kernel: snd_es1938_write_cmd timeout (0x02c0/0x0280) **************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** Contents of relevant /proc/ files: [--] Contents of /asound/... (not including sub-dirs) 0 [es1938         ]: ES1938 - ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)                      ESS ES1938 (Solo-1) rev 0, irq 12 1 [sbawe          ]: SB AWE - Sound Blaster 16                      Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&5   0: [0- 0]: ctl   8: [0- 0]: raw midi  16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback  24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture  33:       : timer  32: [1- 0]: ctl  36: [1- 0]: hardware dependent  40: [1- 0]: raw midi  48: [1- 0]: digital audio playback  56: [1- 0]: digital audio capture 01-00: OPL3 FM 00-00: es-1938-1946 : ESS Solo-1 : playback 2 : capture 1 01-00: SB16 DSP : DSP v4.16 : playback 1 : capture 1 G0: system timer : 10000.000us (10000000 ticks) P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE P0-0-2: PCM playback 0-0-2 : SLAVE P1-0-0: PCM playback 1-0-0 : SLAVE P1-0-1: PCM capture 1-0-1 : SLAVE Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.cvs20021017. Compiled on Oct 17 2002 for kernel 2.4.18-586-demudi with versioned symbols. [--] cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 12 cpu MHz : 133.638 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 bogomips : 266.24 [--] devices: Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 14 sound 29 fb 108 ppp 116 alsa 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw Block devices: 1 ramdisk 3 ide0 22 ide1 [--] dma: 1: SoundBlaster - 8bit 4: cascade 5: SoundBlaster - 16bit [--] execdomains: 0-0 Linux [kernel] [--] interrupts: CPU0 0: 6795186 XT-PIC timer 1: 10032 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 139198 XT-PIC serial 5: 0 XT-PIC SoundBlaster 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 14: 226891 XT-PIC ide0 15: 0 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 1 [--] ioports: 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0213-0213 : isapnp read 0220-022f : SoundBlaster 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0330-0331 : MPU401 UART 0376-0376 : ide1 0388-0389 : OPL2/3 (left) 038a-038b : OPL2/3 (right) 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(set) 0620-0623 : Emu8000-1 0a20-0a23 : Emu8000-2 0a79-0a79 : isapnp write 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 0e20-0e23 : Emu8000-3 6000-601f : Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II] 6100-613f : ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive 6200-620f : ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive 6300-630f : ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive 6400-6403 : ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive 6500-6503 : ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive 9000-900f : Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] 9000-9007 : ide0 9008-900f : ide1 [--] isapnp: Card 1 'CTL00c5:Creative SB AWE64 PnP' PnP version 1.0 Product version 1.0 Logical device 0 'CTL0045:Audio' Device is active Active port 0x220,0x330,0x388 Active IRQ 5 [0x2] Active DMA 1,5 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x220-0x220, align 0x0, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x330-0x330, align 0x0, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x0, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5 High-Edge DMA 1 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 5 16-bit word-count compatible Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x220-0x280, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x330, align 0x2f, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x0, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 5,6,7 16-bit word-count compatible Alternate resources 0:2 Priority acceptable Port 0x220-0x280, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x330, align 0x2f, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 5,6,7 16-bit word-count compatible Alternate resources 0:3 Priority acceptable Port 0x220-0x280, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 5,6,7 16-bit word-count compatible Alternate resources 0:4 Priority acceptable Port 0x220-0x280, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x330, align 0x2f, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x0, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:5 Priority acceptable Port 0x220-0x280, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x330, align 0x2f, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:6 Priority acceptable Port 0x220-0x280, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible Alternate resources 0:7 Priority functional Port 0x220-0x280, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x330, align 0xf, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x394, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 5,6,7 16-bit word-count compatible Logical device 1 'CTL7002:Game' Compatible device PNPb02f Device is not active Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x200-0x200, align 0x0, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x200-0x208, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Logical device 2 'CTL0022:WaveTable' Device is active Active port 0x620,0xa20,0xe20 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x620-0x620, align 0x0, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0xa20-0xa20, align 0x0, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0xe20-0xe20, align 0x0, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x620-0x680, align 0x1f, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0xa20-0xa80, align 0x1f, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Port 0xe20-0xe80, align 0x1f, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding Card 2 'TCM5094:3Com 3C509B EtherLink III' PnP version 1.0 Product version 1.0 Logical device 0 'TCM5094:Unknown' Supported registers 0x2 Compatible device PNP80f7 Device is not active Active port 0x320 Active IRQ 15 [0x2] Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x210-0x3e0, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,5,7,2/9,10,11,12,15 High-Edge [--] modules: ppp_deflate 39488 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp 4032 0 (autoclean) ppp_async 6080 0 (autoclean) ppp_generic 18184 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 4496 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] tap0 2464 1 (autoclean) serial 44064 1 (autoclean) snd-sbawe 16160 0 (unused) isa-pnp 28168 0 [serial snd-sbawe] snd-opl3-lib 5152 0 [snd-sbawe] snd-sb16-dsp 5376 0 [snd-sbawe] snd-pcm 53280 0 [snd-sb16-dsp] snd-timer 9280 0 [snd-opl3-lib snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 2576 0 [snd-sbawe snd-sb16-dsp] snd-rawmidi 11552 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3696 0 [snd-sbawe snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi] snd-sb16-csp 15072 0 [snd-sbawe] snd-sb-common 7048 0 [snd-sbawe snd-sb16-dsp snd-sb16-csp] snd-hwdep 3424 0 [snd-opl3-lib snd-sb16-csp] snd 23176 0 [snd-sbawe snd-opl3-lib snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-sb16-csp snd-sb-common snd-hwdep] sound 52620 0 (unused) soundcore 3492 5 [snd sound] af_packet 11528 1 rtc 5528 0 (autoclean) ext2 30784 9 (autoclean) ide-disk 6624 10 (autoclean) ide-probe-mod 8080 0 (autoclean) ide-mod 130892 10 (autoclean) [ide-disk ide-probe-mod] ext3 56864 0 (autoclean) jbd 35272 0 (autoclean) [ext3] unix 13316 60 (autoclean) [--] pci: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430VX - 82437VX TVX [Triton VX] (rev 2). Master Capable. Latency=32. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 1). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 0). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x9000 [0x900f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 1). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x6000 [0x601f]. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 1). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe3ffffff]. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 1). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24. I/O at 0x6100 [0x613f]. I/O at 0x6200 [0x620f]. I/O at 0x6300 [0x630f]. I/O at 0x6400 [0x6403]. I/O at 0x6500 [0x6503]. [--] version: Linux version 2.4.18-586-demudi (free@leporello) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Oct 15 11:19:17 CEST 2002 [--] Contents of /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 ############################################### # # ALSA modules configuration file for modprobe # ############################################### # # ALSA portion # # Native ALSA devices major number alias char-major-116 snd # Toplevel soundcard modules. # String 'snd-card-%i' is requested for native devices where %i is # soundcard number from zero to seven. alias snd-card-1 snd-es1938 options snd-es1938 snd_id=es1938 alias snd-card-0 snd-sbawe options snd-sbawe snd_id=sbawe # # OSS/Free portion # # Emulated OSS devices major number alias char-major-14 soundcore # String 'sound-slot-%i' is requested for native devices where %i is # slot number (for ALSA owner this means soundcard number). alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 # Autoloading for ALSA's add-on OSS/Free emulation modules # String 'sound-service-%i-%i' is requested for OSS/Free service # where first %i means slot number (e.g. card number) and second %i # means service number. 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 alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss # Options options snd snd_device_mode=0666 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0 *************************************************************************** the end!