[gobolinux-users] ALSA doesn't work

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:55:08 +0200, demian florentin <demianflorentin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/29/07, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Hello Patrick, i also use via82xx and i had a similar problem, I disabled
> all OSS  kernel support and alsa started working, I hope it helps.
>
That does imply that there's a conflict between the OSS and the ALSA module.
Patrick and Demian, you should try to delete or move the OSS module and see
if that helps. The OSS module should be somewhere under
/System/Kernel/Modules/Current/kernel/sound/oss/

-- 
/Jonas

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