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 <no output!> 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 <several other midi/codec/pcm modules> 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!) :) -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts