I emerge last version (ie 1.0.10_rc2) of alsa-driver, alsa-oss and alsa-utils. There was no error of emerging. All the config files were good, channels were unmuted. However when I play some wav, mp3, ogg files, I cannot hear anything. What is strange is that a cat /dev/urandom>/dev/dsp produces the usual crap sounds. I emerge back with 1.0.9b versions and all is working fine ! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. [root@gui - 13:40:09 - ~] # emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr" LANG="fr_FR@euro" LC_ALL="fr_FR@euro" LINGUAS="fr" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X aac aalib acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi bash-completion berkdb bigger-fonts bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bootsplash browserplugin cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb divx4linux dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java jikes jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kipi libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba scanner sdl slang slp speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Did you update alsa-lib, too? Did you remove alsa support from in-kernel?
I had the same problem. My sources kernel sources are alsa-compatible since alsa and friends are build as modules. My solution for the problem: 1) emerge alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-headers The latter were not a available a few days ago. 2) depmod -a modprobe was always looking for the wrong modules. Maybe it should be included in the alsa-driver ebuild? 3) alsamixer Unmute the master and pcm channels (set volume to at least 50 and press "M"). Cheers, *th
We're *not* going to support if you build alsa as module in-kernel and then emerge alsa-driver. To use alsa-driver, you should enable only sound card support and *disable* alsa in kernel.
(In reply to comment #3) > We're *not* going to support if you build alsa as module in-kernel and then > emerge alsa-driver. > To use alsa-driver, you should enable only sound card support and *disable* > alsa in kernel. > (In reply to comment #1) > Did you update alsa-lib, too? Did you remove alsa support from in-kernel? > I don't emerge alsa-lib directly but (dependency ?) I got alsa-lib-1.0.10_rc2 I don't have any alsa support in my kernel # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # # CONFIG_SND is not set
I had the same problem and I did the following steps to get it (partially) working: 1. Boot up normal 2. /etc/init.d/alsasound stop 3. rc-update del alsasound 4. rm /etc/asound.state 4. power off the computer 5. boot up again 6. /etc/init.d/alsasound start 7. unmute soundcard As for now xmms, kde-sounds and psi sounds are working, skype seems to open the device but you can't hear anything.
Seems to be solved by alsa team in 1.0.10_rc3
Fixed by upstream then.