Audio (SOLVED)

straydog · 2006-04-08 17:29:53

I have an IBM Personal Computer 300PL P3 500 w/ onboard audio. When I bring up KDE, I get the message:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

I have no sound (obviously). Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bill

McQueen · 2006-04-08 18:00:48

Sound Permission Denied??

straydog · 2006-04-08 18:16:07

Thank you for the response. Not familiar with that. When I looked, /dev/dsp indeed does not exist, so it's not a permission problem with that file, anyway. Is that what you're meaning or is there somewhere else I should look?

When I first loaded the box, I had to install video drivers for KDE to work. Didn't find anything like that for the audio, but I may be looking in the wrong places.

Thanks, again.

Bill

ralvez · 2006-04-08 20:03:46

Hum ... :? I wonder if you have not enabled hardware detection.
Did you install hwd (pacman -Sy hwd) and added it to your DEAMONS line in /etc/rc.conf?

Rick

T-Dawg · 2006-04-08 20:39:39

did you run alsaconf?

straydog · 2006-04-08 20:48:42

Okay. I installed hwd, ran hwd -u, put hwd in the DAEMONS line of /etc/rc.conf. No effect on the problem (I even rebooted). I tried running alsaconf and alsa.conf - command not found. Tried installing alsaconf, but it is evidently not a package. Do I need to install another package?

Thanks for all the input.

Bill

mpie · 2006-04-08 20:50:35

pacman -S alsautils

straydog · 2006-04-08 20:56:06

alsautils: not found in sync db

T-Dawg · 2006-04-08 20:56:08

its alsa-utils with the hyphen (-). Sorry, thought that was a base package.

McQueen · 2006-04-08 20:57:27

straydog wrote:

Okay. I installed hwd, ran hwd -u, put hwd in the DAEMONS line of /etc/rc.conf. No effect on the problem (I even rebooted). I tried running alsaconf and alsa.conf - command not found. Tried installing alsaconf, but it is evidently not a package. Do I need to install another package?

You definitely should read the Post Installation Tips.

ralvez · 2006-04-08 21:07:21

The way I do it is :
1. pacman -Sy alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-oss alsa-utils alsaplayer
2. alsamixer (as root) and set turn the volume on and up
3. alsactl store (so the settings are saved)
4. aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav (to test)

Hope this helps.

Rick

T-Dawg · 2006-04-08 21:10:21

ralvez wrote:

3. alsactl store (so the settings are saved)

You can add alsad to your DAEMONS() array to automatically save and restore during shutdown and bootup

ralvez · 2006-04-08 21:13:38

I new I was missing a step! That wright Penguin the last step is to add it to your DAEMONS line, so that when the system starts and ends the current settings are saved.

straydog · 2006-04-08 21:34:44

Wow, thanks for all the input! I appreciate the link, McQueen. I installed all the alsa stuff. Step 2 - run alsamixer returned:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

Rebooting yielded the same results, but I'm getting closer. At least I have more stuff loaded

I really appreciate all the efforts.

Bill

mpie · 2006-04-08 21:36:45

now that you have them installed run
alsaconf
then do the other steps

straydog · 2006-04-08 21:39:20

Did that, but I'll try it again.

Bill

straydog · 2006-04-08 21:48:29

When I run alsaconf, it finds and configures a Crystal Audio cs4236. At the end of the configuration it runs alsasound init scrict and then run amixer. I get:

Loading driver...
:: Saving ALSA Levels                                                    [BUSY] /usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found...
                                                                         [FAIL]


:: Restoring ALSA Levels                                                 [BUSY] /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1236: No soundcards found...
                                                                         [FAIL]
Setting default volumes...
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /etc/asound.state.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found...

Hmmm.

T-Dawg · 2006-04-08 21:53:35

did you modprobe cs4236 ? You may need to reboot...

straydog · 2006-04-08 22:24:51

modprobe cs4236 was part of alsaconf, was it not? When it asked if I wanted to modify /etc/modprobe.conf, I said yes. It appearred to be successful. I did try a reboot.

Bill

McQueen · 2006-04-08 23:23:32

What are the present contents of your /etc/modprobe.conf file?

theD3viL · 2006-04-08 23:29:55

delete everything in /etc/modprobe or just comment OSS stuff.

then again alsaconf.

straydog · 2006-04-08 23:39:23

#
# /etc/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
#

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.10 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
alias sound-slot-0 snd-cs4236
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

McQueen · 2006-04-09 00:04:07

straydog wrote:

When I run alsaconf, it finds and configures a Crystal Audio cs4236.

What does 'lspci -v' say about the Multimedia audio controller??

$ lspci -v

straydog · 2006-04-09 00:10:57

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        Memory behind bridge: f4000000-f7ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 20000000-200fffff

00:02.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:02.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at fff0 [size=16]

00:02.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 48, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at ff00 [size=32]

00:02.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
        Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 00d7
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at f3eff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at 7c60 [size=32]
        Memory at f3f00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio 64 3D (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: IBM Integrated Trio3D
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

I don't see anything about the multimedia audio controller.

Bill

McQueen · 2006-04-09 00:17:26

Should be like this:

$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev a2)
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
        Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Unknown device 904d
        Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

<snip>

00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio Processing Unit (rev a2)
        Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Unknown device 904d
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 255
        Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]

What is the output of:?

# modprobe snd-cs4236
# alsactl store

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