alsa sound just works??? ahhh!

phrakture · 2003-11-24 17:37:35

heh as you can see from the title, I'm a bit scared. Here's my steps

pacman -S alsa-driver
add emu10k1 to MODULES array
add in permissions settings to devfs.conf for audio group
added self to audio group

after that I grabbed xmms and streamer/streamer-live365 from unofficial (streaming radio listings).

started up xmms and BLAM! sound...

can anyone enlighten me to why I did not need to modify modules.conf or do the whole "set master and pcm on and at 100%" thing?

eek!

sarah31 · 2003-11-24 18:06:27

phrakture wrote:

can anyone enlighten me to why I did not need to modify modules.conf

if you put your modules in the modules array in rc.conf then putting anything in modules.conf is redundant. modules.conf is empty by default.

or do the whole "set master and pcm on and at 100%" thing?

well if you mean it was not muted by default i dunno i thought that was law at alsa. as an aside i never have master or pcm at 100%

as an aside you may want to do a lsmod to make sure you have the snd-pcm-oss module loaded. if you don't and don't run some sound server you may not have sound in some apps.

phrakture · 2003-11-25 01:38:36

well i recently reinstalled my version of arch - mainly for kicks... and am reconfiguring everything due to that.

lsmod doesnt report the oss module, however i have sound,ac97_codec, and emu10k1. the thing that baffles me is that I have no oss emulation setup, yet xmms is set to use oss output... alsa output works as well - and I don't have esd or any other sound daemon running.

don't get me wrong I love the fact that it "just works" however I'm baffled. And I understand the MODULES array and all, when speaking of the modules.conf file I was mainly implying the oss modules and all that jazz....

Xentac · 2003-11-25 02:45:28

Ooooo... emu10k1 is an oss module. Anything that starts with snd- is an alsa module (like snd-emu10k1). It's acting like oss because it is oss!

phrakture · 2003-11-26 11:13:42

Bah I don't do well explaining myself - by "oss" modules I mean the oss emulation stuff normally jammed into modules.conf (aliasing the oss module names to the alsa names... can't remember any off the top of my head but the sound-card-0 and things like that).

Xentac · 2003-11-26 14:59:25

Yes, but are you loading 'emu10k1' or 'snd-emu10k1'? There is a very big difference.

phrakture · 2003-11-28 02:00:20

ya know what? good question.... checking now... emu10k1... is that a problem?

sarah31 · 2003-11-28 02:05:46

well then you are not using the alsa module for your card and, therefore are not using alsa.

phrakture · 2003-11-28 02:44:35

aha! so that's the problem... switching over to snd-emu10k1 then... by the way what package contains alsactrl and aumixer... I don't seem to have them...

Xentac · 2003-11-28 02:56:36

alsactl = alsa-utils

aumix = aumix

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alsa sound just works??? ahhh!

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