2.6.x sound woes

[Net Llama!]

On 03/16/04 14:48, Collins Richey wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:20:28 -0500 (EST)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>>
>>>Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've been playing with assorted 2.6.x kernels on different boxes
>>>>for a couple months now.  I've managed to get everything working
>>>>except for sound.  I know that 2.6.x uses ALSA instead of OSS, and
>>>>i've installed the assorted alsa userspace tools (alsa-lib &
>>>>alsa-utils).  However, I still can't get sound to work at all, and
>>>>i've had it working without a hitch on the same boxes under 2.4.
> 
> 
> Technically, 2.6 does not require you to use alsa.  The OSS support is
> still there (if deprecated, if no longer maintained), and a lot of folks
> are continuing to use it, most especially for cards that support
> surround sound, since alsa doesn't support that yet.
> 
> 
>>>>I've tried both with OSS emulation, and without pure ALSA.  I've
>>>>tried building as modules, and compiling the support into the
>>>>kernel.  In all cases, i end up with zilch.  The functional
>>>>problem is that if i go to play an MP3, i get the error:
>>>
> 
> 
>>>2. lsmod | grep snd: should give a lot of noise, among others your
>>>snd-ens1371, but there should be no other sound related modules
>>>except soundcore.
>>
>>Not in this case, cause i compiled everything into the kernel.
> 
> 
> In my limited experience, alsa compiled as built in doesn't work very
> well (don't know why); I compiled everything including alsa OSS
> emulation as modules and set up the recommended aliases for alsa.
> 
> That being said, alsa is a POS, and ens1371 works sometimes and other
> times it doesn't work.  On my machine with an ens1371, I have to load
> snd-ens1371 twice to get it to work , ie. modprobe snd-ens1371,
> delmod snd-ens1371, modprobe ens-13721 (!).  On the first attempt, I get
> an error message, and devfs fails to create /dev/dsp.

devfs?  Now that is truly deprecated in 2.6.  That isn't supposed to 
work any more.


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