| Summary: | alsa-driver 0.9.8 gives no sound where 0.9.2 works fine | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Philip Hazel <ph10> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo Sound Team <sound> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
do you use modules ? Yes, alsa-driver installs a number of sound modules. I arrange to autoload them at boot time. I feel the bug report is not entirely accurate. I had similar problems. On my install, KDE says that /dev/dsp doesn't exist and fails to load the mixer. But when I start mplayer to play some sound file in a Konsole terminal, it works and sound comes out. Modules are also loaded appropriately. However, /dev/sound is empty, which it is only with 2.4 kernel, and not with 2.6.0-test11. I am not running KDE (I am using vtwm, if that matters). I believe my report is accurate. The facts are: alsa-driver 0.9.2 works, but alsa-driver 0.9.8 does not, with everything else being the same. I tried a number of sound-producing programs, including mplayer, realplayer, and timidity. could you try rc1 or rc2 of alsa ? How do I do that? "emerge -s alsa-driver" just shows Latest version available: 0.9.8 without any rc1 or rc2, and emerge -p =media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.8-rc2 (or rc1) finds nothing. emerge /path/to/foo/bar.ebuild You mystified me there, but eventually I twigged that the source for the rc versions were in the portage directories along with the other sources. At least they are on my machine here at work - but this has no sound output. It will probably be the weekend before I can try your suggestion on my home machine where the problem lies - not least because I'll need to allow plenty of time to put the working version back afterwards if the rc versions fail. I will report the results of the test in due course. Thanks for continuing to work with me on this. I am sorry to have to report no success with alsa-driver-1.0.0_rc1 or _rc2. I did the following: 1. unmerge alsa-driver (followed by reboot to check I had no sound). 2. emerge /usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-1.0.0_rc1.ebuild 3. reboot - no sound 4. unmerge alsa-driver 5. emerge /usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-1.0.0_rc2.ebuild 6. reboot - no sound 7. unmerge alsa-driver 8. emerge =media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.2 9. reboot - Sound! Please let me know if there's anything more I can do to help, but note that I am going to be away from Jan 5th to Jan 29th. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34621 *** |
I upgraded my 2.4.20 kernel to the latest gentoo source (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r9), emerged alsa-driver, and then had no sound. Everything seems to work; just that nothing comes out of the speakers. I noticed I had a new version of alsa-driver (0.9.8). Unmerging alsa-drivers and downgrading to alsa-driver 0.9.2 fixes the problem. My sound card is: Bus 0, device 31, function 5: Multimedia audio controller: PCI device 8086:24d5 (Intel Corp.) (rev 2). IRQ 3. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebff800 [0xfebff9ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebff400 [0xfebff4ff]. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge alsa-driver 0.9.8 2. reboot 3. play some audio Actual Results: Audio applications ran perfectly, but no sound is heard. Expected Results: Made some noise!