Re: [Openvortex-dev] getting au8830 alsa to work?

[Jeff Muizelaar]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Sean . wrote:

>
> lsmod returns the following:
> snd-mixer-oss          13848   1  (autoclean)
> snd-seq-midi            4192   0  (unused)
> snd-seq-midi-event      3528   0  [snd-seq-midi]
> snd-seq                40144   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
> snd-au8830             25240   1
> snd-ac97-codec         38048   0  [snd-au8830]
> snd-pcm                64768   0  [snd-au8830]
> snd-timer              15880   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
> snd-mpu401-uart         3824   0  [snd-au8830]
> snd-rawmidi            14688   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]
> snd-seq-device          4480   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
> snd                    32548   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi
> snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-au8830 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer
> snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
> soundcore               4228   3  [snd]
> NVdriver             1067424  10  (autoclean)
> snd-page-alloc          5292   0  [snd-pcm]
>
> I then used alsamixer to turn the volume up in the Master and PCM channel to
> 100%

Did you unmute them? Things are muted by default.

> However, whenever I use aplay, or even "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" I get
> no sound.  No cracks, pops, whistles, beeps, nothing, just complete silence.

to get /dev/dsp to work you need to have the snd-pcm-oss module loaded.

> I've tried everything I can think of.  The OSS drivers work fine, but I was
> interested in trying these new ALSA drivers.

what does dmesg give?

-Jeff