On Thursday 12 August 2004 10:09, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:42:09 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: <snip> > > So basically, here is what works and dont: > > 1. xmms works provided I chose ALSA on the output plugin > > 2. playing CD audio with something like kscd works > > 3. playing ogg123 doesn't work, just give staticky noise. This is true > > whether I use gnome, which make ogg123 runs with ALSA driver, or KDE -> > > ogg123 runs with Artsd > > 4. Playing any wave files with 'playwave' does not work, give staticky > > noise 5. system-config-soundcard "Test" button only gives static noise > > also > > Hmmm, smells much like your ALSA OSS compatibility driver doesn't work. That's along the line of what I'm thinking, but I don't know how to fix it. > Trouble-shooting sound problems in FC2 needs a bit of background. The ALSA > drivers support the native ALSA devices /dev/snd/* and OSS compatibility > devices /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer and friends. Not all applications or > utilities use native ALSA devices yet. E.g. system-config-soundcard plays > the test sound via /dev/dsp (OSS). playwave uses SDL and ALSA > library. ogg123 uses libao, which supports OSS and EsounD. If in XMMS you > switch to OSS output, I assume you get the same static noise, right? All you said make sense, and you guessed right with XMMS. Output to ESD or OSS gives me static. > And > the same when you "cat" some WAV file into /dev/dsp. Some users seem to > have problems with audio driver routing issues, where ALSA and ALSA OSS > seem to be fully separate and one works while the other one doesn't. > Setting the mixer levels with an OSS compatible mixer doesn't change the > ALSA mixer levels for the same soundcard and things like that. You would > use alsamixer for ALSA and e.g. aumix for OSS. Yep, aggreed, true. I know and have tried both alsamixer and aumix (the gnome-volume-control and kmix is just the 'fancy' GUI). > ALSA loads two sets of modules, one set for OSS (via modprobe.conf.dist), > the other for native ALSA. Yep, correct. As far as I know, all the necessary module is loaded. Still, no luck with OSS emulation. Here is what I think the pertinent lsmod output: # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss 40740 0 snd_mixer_oss 13824 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_via82xx 19104 1 snd_pcm 68872 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx snd_timer 17156 1 snd_pcm snd_ac97_codec 50436 1 snd_via82xx snd_page_alloc 7940 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm gameport 3328 1 snd_via82xx snd_mpu401_uart 4864 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi 17184 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 6152 1 snd_rawmidi snd 38372 11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 6112 1 snd So, that's all the troubleshooting background. Any idea on the solution ? Does anyone else experience this with the same soundcard / chipset? Thanks a lot for the respond. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D>+ G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
