[gobolinux-users] ALSA doesn't work

[kenneth marken]

On Friday 29 June 2007 19:43:36 Patrick Smith wrote:
> 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?
>

dont know, all i can say is that i have a similar problem here. the 
interesting bit is that alsamixer can still be used.

also, im sure my card worked when booting from 013 the first time round, but 
after doing some updating it broke. dont know when.