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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Sound [solved]

I am trying to configure my isa soundcard (aztech 2320) so that i can listen to music with xmms. so far, i have installed alsa-lib, alsa-oss, and alsa-utils; ran alsaconf successfully; and added the user I plan on using to audio::92 in /etc/group. However, xmms still says "couldn't open audio" and moon-lander won't load becuase it can't find audio. i've been on the arch wiki page quite a bit and there, ive seen that alsaconf should not be used isa sound cards. i don't mind entering the information manually and i don't mind reinstalling arch if that's what's needed. I would however, like to have sound when I'm done. Any ideas anyone?

moire

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Registered: 2006-01-07

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Re: Sound [solved]

i don't know if alsa *could* work with isa, but since the wiki recommends against it, why not try OSS audio http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OSS

smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

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Re: Sound [solved]

IIRC you need to configure your ISA cards with isapnp on every boot. Maybe these links will help you: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/x320.html#AEN343, http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html

After you've assigned an IRQ and whatnot to your soundcard with the pnp-utils you should be able to use alsaconf to configure your card.

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: Sound [solved]

i don't know if alsa *could* work with isa, but since the wiki recommends against it, why not try OSS audio http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OSS

Actually, alsa does work with isa. the wiki just recommends manually configuring rather than using alsaconf. In fact, before I switched to arch, I was on slackware and alsa worked just fine with my ISA soundcard. However, I was also using hotplug - not udev to autodetect it. I think my problem right now is actually with udev because I have never gotten any results with lsmod|grep snd - even before running alsaconf. am i right that this means udev is not detecting my sound card at all?

sud_crow

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Registered: 2003-06-30

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Re: Sound [solved]

If you know what driver your soundcard uses, you can try loading it in /etc/rc.conf... MODULES=() line.

Also you could try:
]# dmesg | grep -i snd
or
]# dmesg | grep -i sound
or
]# dmesg |grep -i isa

To see if it is detected at boot time, but the drivers dont load.

Regards.

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mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: Sound [solved]

One thing that gave me problems was after an install /dev/sound all was in the root group, when I changed those to the audio group it worked.

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: Sound [solved]

grep sound  returns

isapnp: Card 'AZT1008 PnP Sound Device'

Note that my card is actually AZT2320. grep isa returns...

local apic disabled by bios - you can enable it with "lapic"
acpi interpreter disabled
pnp: pnp acpi: disabled
   io window: disabled
isapnp: scanning for pnp cards...
isapnp: Card 'azt1008 pnp sound device'
isapnp: 1 plug & play card detected total
serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
hdc: disabling (U)DMA for CD-532E-A (blacklisted)
lo: disabled privacy extensions

Does this mean I have a bios problem? Or a udev problem?

sud_crow

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Registered: 2003-06-30

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Re: Sound [solved]

For what i can tell, the card is being properly detected, you should load manually the module corresponding to it, and see what happens.

Try doing it with modprobe until you get it working, once you know the correct driver, you can add the module to rc.conf list and have it loaded at boot time.

Do you remember the module that slackware loaded?

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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: Sound [solved]

Thanks to you all I got this working. I had to manually load the specific sound card and snd-pcm-oss modules and configured them to load on startup in rc.conf. Also got alsa daemon to save mixer settings so they are available on reboot. Thanks everyone!