[gobolinux-users] ALSA doesn't work

Patrick Smith baelog01 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 29 17:43:36 UTC 2007


Hi, I have an audio problem with GoboLinux 013.

I read through the mail list and it seems that sound is a perpetual problem with GoboLinux and yet the wiki has nothing on how to fix sound problems. I think sound problems certainly deserve some attention.

Anyway, my problem is that ALSA doesn't recognize my soundcard. Since ALSA doesn't work most other things that depend on it (arts, Noatun, ...) don't work either. I added the proper module (snd-via82xx) in the boot settings and that doesn't help.

I should point out that KDE does work with OSS, MPlayer also works. I don't remember if this worked before I added the module.

Here are the relevant details:
- the card is an integrated VIA 82xx
- during bootup ALSA reports: "No soundcard found"
- lspci does list the card
- /dev/dsp does exist
- arts pops up with a "sound server error" if KDE is set to use ALSA
- arts generally doesn't work
- alsaconf reports an error, something  like  "cannot find default: no such card"

So how do I fix this?

Thanks in advance.
    Baelog
       
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