[linux-audio-user] Debian 2.6.14 alsa problems

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 06 January 2006 16:42, Laura Conrad wrote:
> >>>>> "NH" == Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> writes:
>
>     NH> Hi Laura On Debian Sarge/Etch, using Alsamixer v1.0.10 , the only
> controls NH> affecting midi output are. Master; Front; and Music; obviously
> with the NH> Audigy switch unmuted also.
>
> For the SBLive, 1.0.10 doesn't seem to have either Front or Music.
> I'm pretty sure Music is now Synth; does anyone know what Front turned
> into?
>
>     NH> I'm using Kmid, and Emu10k1 Wavetable Emu10k1 Port2 -ALSA device
> (shown in NH> Kmids midi config), and the other 3 ports are ok.
>
> Kmid looks like it would be really nice,  if it would only play the
> sound.
>
>
>     NH> Souncard is: Audigy2 soundblaster (emu10k1). Chip: Sigmatel
>     NH> STAC9721/23
>
> Card: SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]
> Chip: TriTech TR28602
>
>     NH> Kernel: 2.6.11-1-386
>
> Kernel: 2.6.14-2-386
>
>     NH> Alsa version: 1.0.8      (with the 2.6.11 kernel)
>
> [~]# cat /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc1 (Mon Sep 12
> 08:13:09 2005 UTC).
>
>     NH> Alsa components installed:
>     NH> alsa-base      1.0.10-3
>     NH> alsa-modules-2.4-27-2-386  1.0.10+1    (I have a 2.4 kernel, as
> well as the NH> 2.6)
>     NH> alsa-oss        1.0.10-1
>     NH> alsa-utils        1.0.10-1
>
> [~]# dpkg -l alsa-modules-2*
>
> ||/ Name                        Version                     Description
>
> +++-===========================-===========================-===============
>======================================================= ii  alsa-base       
>            1.0.10-3                    ALSA driver configuration files ii 
> alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686   1.0.6a+4                    Advanced Linux
> Sound Architecture (drivers) ii  alsa-oss                    1.0.10-1      
>              ALSA wrapper for OSS applications ii  alsa-utils              
>    1.0.10-1                    ALSA utilities ii  alsaplayer               
>   0.99.76-0.2                 PCM player designed for ALSA ii 
> alsaplayer-common           0.99.76-0.2                 PCM player designed
> for ALSA (common files) ii  alsaplayer-gtk              0.99.76-0.2        
>         PCM player designed for ALSA (GTK version) ii  alsaplayer-oss      
>        0.99.76-0.2                 PCM player designed for ALSA (OSS output
> module)
>
>
>     NH> ps: sorry messing with the BIOS didn't fix it.
>
> No problem.  If I'm not profusely thanking people for trying to help
> with every message, it isn't because I'm not grateful.

Hi Laura. Lee Revell posted a reply to someone else on this thread. You may 
have missed it. He says to make sure that "Synth" volume is up, so I think 
that's saying that with the "Live" card, "Synth" equates with "Music" on my 
Audigy2.

Also he asked for the output of:
cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1

Would you post the output of this please, as it will confirm if the soundfont 
is loaded.

I also compared your lsmod with mine, and there are only minor differences. 
Mine has snd-usb-audio, for the sake of my USB midi keyboard. Yours has 
snd-rtctimer, and snd-mpu401-uart, which mine doesn't. Not sure of what 
snd-rtctimer is for , but as I don't have realtime in this kernel, it may be 
something to do with that.

This is a real Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys mystery. Nigel.