sound not working = slight problem

Michael Havens bmike101 at cox.net
Sun Oct 29 14:22:58 MST 2006 

Speak of the devil! I got confirmation as to the soundcard when I started 
gaim.

bmike1 at 2[ayttm-0.4.6]$ gaim&
[2] 22949
[1]   Exit 127                gim
bmike1 at 2[ayttm-0.4.6]$ _IceTransOpen: Unable to Parse address ▒
ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver 
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned 
error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned 
error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA snd_pcm_open error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver 
returned error: No such device

etc..






 On Sunday 29 October 2006 2:10 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> DUDE! You're right.... it is an ISA card.
> Sorry for the confusion. I was wondering why it wasn't lspci too!
>
> Well the closest I can find to an lsisa is isadump but after inspecting the
> manpage for it that doesn't seem right. I had it working setting it up as
> an alsa soundcard using the command:
> 	amixer groups; amixer set PCM 100 unmute
>
> check this out: (found with 'apropos isa')
> 	wavelan (4)          - AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver
> 	airo (4)             - Driver for the Aironet 802.11 ISA/PCI/PCMCIA 4500 &
> 		4800 and Cisco 340
>
> what I'm thinking is one of these might be the driver that was used in the
> prior OS (mepis.10.02)<that's right I haven't updated anything in 3 years!>
> If I'm correct I get to embark on a new adventure: setting a device driver!
>
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:39 pm, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > Don't see any sound card there.  What card do you think you have and do
> > you have any reason to believe it works?  Try reseating the card or
> > replacing it with another.
> >
> > If this is an old machine, verify the sound card is not in an ISA slot
> > (longer with fewer and fatter connections) rather than a PCI slot.
> >
> > On 10/29/06, Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
> > > lspci as superuser
> > >
> > > bmike1 at 0[dev]$ sudo lspci -v
> > > 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3]
> > > (rev
> > > 04)
> > >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16
> > >         Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
> > >         Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
> > >
> > > 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo
> > > MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> > >         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
> > >         Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
> > >         Memory behind bridge: dc000000-ddffffff
> > >         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff
> > >
> > > 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA
> > > [Apollo VP] (rev 47)
> > >         Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. MVP3 ISA Bridge
> > >         Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
> > >
> > > 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> > > (prog-if 8a
> > > [Master SecP PriP])
> > >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
> > >         I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
> > >
> > > 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> > > 1.1 Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
> > >         Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
> > >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> > >         I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
> > >
> > > 0000:00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev
> > > 10) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
> > >
> > > 0000:00:0a.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem
> > > Model
> > > 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
> > >         Subsystem: 3Com Corp, Modem Division: Unknown device 00d3
> > >         Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
> > >         I/O ports at d800 [size=8]
> > >         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> > >
> > > 0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet
> > > Pro
> > > 100] (rev 05)
> > >         Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation NC3121 Fast Ethernet NIC
> > > (WOL)
> > >         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> > >         Memory at df100000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
> > >         I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
> > >         Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
> > >         Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=1M]
> > >         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> > >
> > > 0000:00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D /
> > > AIC-7881U Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> > >         I/O ports at e000 [disabled] [size=256]
> > >         Memory at df101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> > >         Expansion ROM at 20100000 [disabled] [size=64K]
> > >
> > > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10
> > > [GeForce 256
> > > SDR] (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > >         Subsystem: Elsa AG Erazor X
> > >         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
> > >         Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> > >         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> > >         Expansion ROM at dd000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
> > >         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
> > >         Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
> > >
> > > bmike1 at 0[dev]$
> > >
> > > On Sunday 29 October 2006 9:52 am, Kenneth wrote:
> > > > > but I don't see the sound card in there (not that this means much).
> > > > > Yes, there is a pci soundcard in there. At on point in my
> > > > > 'adventures with linux' I had used the 'Setup ALSA PCI Soundcard'
> > > > > command successfully. I did investigate the man pages for amixer
> > > > > and it
> > >
> > > appears
> > >
> > > > > to have changed some
> > > > > but when I modified the command it didn't help.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ideas? Proposals? What?
> > > >
> > > > I would start by seeing if the module for the sound card you have is
> > > > loaded. If not, does
> > > >
> > > > modprobe <your driver>
> > > >
> > > > work?
> > >
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