[gobolinux-users] bemoaning the lack of sound

[Isaac Dupree]

Michael Homer wrote:
> root at wispamok ~]dmesg|grep ALSA
> root at wispamok ~]
> So I think that's normal behaviour. Sound works for me with the same
> config as you.

okay

Note especially snd_hda_intel in this gobo list:

]lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           5248  1
nls_cp437               6912  1
i915                   23808  2
ipv6                  262372  12
sha256                 12160  0
joydev                 10816  0
sky2                   44804  0
ohci1394               31152  0
ieee1394               87352  1 ohci1394
video                  19728  0
output                  4864  1 video
appletouch             10624  0
i2c_i801               10384  0
snd_hda_intel         259612  0
i2c_core               24832  1 i2c_i801
iTCO_wdt               12452  0
intel_agp              24468  1
shpchp                 32276  0
pci_hotplug            29856  1 shpchp
tsdev                   9280  0



> Also, since Ubuntu is working, you can piggyback on its hardware
> detection by running `lsmod` on it and enabling the same modules on
> Gobo while I watched the logs. The snd_* modules are most of what you
> want, there may be dependencies on a few others which should be loaded
> automatically. Google suggests Macbooks have integrated Intel sound,
> same as me, so you're probably looking for either snd_hda_intel or
> snd_intel_8x0, both of which work pretty well in my experience.

there were lots of snd_ modules... probably mostly unnecessary... I 
could have another look.  Then I have to figure out how to reverse 
lookup where they are in kernel config, I guess.  What's snd_intel8x0? 
anyway I tried removing snd_hda_intel and adding it, and also tried 
snd_intel8x0m, and still couldn't make sound.

> You also need to have OSS emulation enabled for the Gobo KDE packages
> to work, as I recall. And the ALSA volume defaults to zero, so you
> need to turn that up to something reasonable. Those two wasted a fair
> bit of time for me when I was setting things up before I figured them
> out.

OSS emulation is enabled.  And I don't use KDE.  And, though `alsamixer` 
is very confusing, it looks like the volume is up (not defaulting to 0), 
and I haven't had any luck changing it (luck = sound comes out when it 
should).  Why can't there be a decent text/command-line control and 
display of sound stuff like most of Unix, or have I just not found it??

Isaac