[gobolinux-users] ALSA doesn't work

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:43:36 +0200, Patrick Smith <baelog01 at yahoo.com> 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?
>
More information could help. Output of 'lsmod' and relevant output from 'lspci'.
You could also try the solution I suggested below, removing/moving the OSS
module.

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/Jonas

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