On Friday 06 October 2006 23:09, stephan beal wrote:
On Friday 06 October 2006 21:05, Carl Hartung wrote:
Repeat the first of the three steps I provided last night and
configure the card *once* with YaST and then leave it alone. The
fact that all the controls were there and the test button played
sound the *first* time indicates success. After that, *do not* try
to test or configure the sound again using YaST or it will corrupt
your sound setup. Been there, done that, so have many others.
Bummer - i didn't realize it could be such a fuss to configure the
sound card. i've never had any problems with Linux and sound before
except on one machine where the microphone input refuses to work.
Hi again!
Okay, i tried your first suggestion:
- Delete /etc/modprobe.d/sound and run alsaconf
As before, alsaconf sees only my Ensoniq (as expected), but the test
audio at the end of the setup failed to play and i couldn't play audio
files afterwards (error is pasted in below).
So i tried the second suggestion:
- remove kdemultimedia3-mixer
- rcalsasound stop
- rm /etc/asound.state
- rcalsasound start
- alsactl store
- alsaconf
Then my sound didn't work at all. After going to Yast -> HW -> Sound and
setting it up there, i'm back to the same place as yesterday: xine
plays audio from movies, but audio files can't play.
i tried qamixer, as you suggested, as well as alsamixer. Curiously
enough:
owl:~ # alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
owl:~ # qamix
Could not open CTL hw:0.
owl:~ # alsactl names
owl:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
options snd-ens1371 enable=1 index=0
# B35A.F2uWXyTiEa3:Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
owl:/media/suse/suse # lsmod | grep ens
snd_ens1371 22944 1
kmixer runs and, as before, can change my audio levels (and the changes
do affect xine's output), but non-video audio still won't play.
stephan@owl:/space/sounds/seal/seal_i> aplay crazy.ogg
ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3968:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:550: audio open error: No such device
Very, very weird. At this point i think i've just got to assume the
problem is related to the MoBo, because this card has worked in other
systems and on other Suse 10.1 installations. i'll check for a bios
update, and if that doesn't work i'll give up. (After doing a quick
search for asrock bios updates, it would seem that you have to run the
updates from FLOPPY disk in DOS mode - and i have neither!)
:)
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