[PlanetCCRMA] The el cheapo myth
Timo Sivula
timo.sivula@luukku.com
Fri Oct 1 20:04:01 2004
Hello Nando and all others.
ma, 2004-09-27 kello 06:31, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano kirjoitti:
> I assume that one card alone works fine, right?
With the modules.conf made by alsaconf one card works fine, yes. I can
see the midi inputs of all three cards but not the audio i/o:s of the
other two.
With my own three-card modules.conf the computer goes mute. I have
opened all channels using alsamixer but the machine still stays quiet.
> You don't need the snd-seq-oss aliases for the second and third cards,
> there's only one sequencer for all of them.
>
> > alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
Should I remove the service-1-1 and 1-8 references to snd-se-oss later
in the settings for the other cards?
> The modules.conf stuff looks fine to me. What happens when you start
> alsa?
[root@timo timo]# service alsasound restart
Shutting down sound driversnd-mixer-oss: Device or resource busy
snd-ens1370: Device or resource busy
snd-pcm: Device or resource busy
snd-timer: Device or resource busy
snd-rawmidi: Device or resource busy
snd-seq-device: Device or resource busy
snd-ak4531-codec: Device or resource busy
snd: Device or resource busy
[ OK ]
ALSA driver already running
Sound driver snd-ens1370 is already loaded
Sound driver snd-ens1370 is already loaded
Sound driver snd-ens1370 is already loaded
[root@timo timo]#
> What messages get printed to /var/log/messages?
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Warning: ignoring device_mode=0666, no
such parameter in this module
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Warning: ignoring device_gid=0, no such
parameter in this module
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Warning: ignoring device_uid=0, no such
parameter in this module
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module snd loaded, with warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module snd-ak4531-codec loaded, with
warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module gameport loaded, with warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module snd-page-alloc loaded, with
warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module snd-seq-device loaded, with
warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module snd-rawmidi loaded, with warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module snd-timer loaded, with warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module snd-pcm loaded, with warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo modprobe: Module snd-ens1370 loaded, with warnings
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo alsasound: Starting sound driver snd-ens1370
succeeded
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo alsasound: Starting sequencer succeeded
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo alsasound: Starting sequencer driver snd-seq-midi
succeeded
Oct 2 10:45:39 timo alsasound: Restoring sound driver settings
succeeded
> What does
> /bin/lsmod say after you have started alsa?
[root@timo timo]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-mixer-oss 16728 1 (autoclean)
it87 11372 0 (unused)
eeprom 5136 0 (unused)
i2c-proc 8532 0 [it87 eeprom]
i2c-isa 1324 0 (unused)
i2c-viapro 4488 0 (unused)
i2c-core 21156 0 [it87 eeprom i2c-proc i2c-isa
i2c-viapro]
snd-ens1370 12644 1
snd-pcm 85984 0 [snd-ens1370]
snd-timer 20996 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 19520 0 [snd-ens1370]
snd-seq-device 6220 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc 9304 0 [snd-ens1370 snd-pcm]
gameport 3380 0 [snd-ens1370]
snd-ak4531-codec 6360 0 [snd-ens1370]
snd 48708 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1370 snd-pcm
snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ak4531-codec]
soundcore 6660 9 [snd]
parport_pc 19172 1 (autoclean)
lp 9060 0 (autoclean)
parport 37792 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13748 0 (autoclean) (unused)
rfcomm 41152 0 (autoclean)
l2cap 23052 2 (autoclean) [rfcomm]
bluez 43652 1 (autoclean) [rfcomm l2cap]
ndiswrapper 59728 1
ipt_REJECT 4344 1 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1048 2 (autoclean)
ip_conntrack 31560 0 (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter 2444 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15872 3 [ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
sg 37772 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18168 0 (autoclean)
microcode 5956 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12240 0
scsi_mod 109944 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 36128 0
cdrom 34048 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 3136 0 (unused)
mousedev 5620 1
hid 24996 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 21704 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 27372 0 (unused)
usbcore 81408 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
input 5856 0 (autoclean) [keybdev mousedev hid]
ext3 74052 2
jbd 54548 2 [ext3]
> If you don't have any errors
> and the modules load fine, have you run alsamixer on all cards?
> ("alsamixer -c 1" for the second, and so on and so forth).
Did that for -c0 to -c2 and enabled the master volume and the pcm lines
for all cards. Unfortunately no sound.
> Also, some of the snd137x cards have an extra stereo output, so you
> could get four channels from each card (if your cards can do that).
I think this is possible with my cards. However, I am more interested in
the multiple inputs for this experiment.
Thank you for your support.
Timo