KM$M-V mobo soundcard, no luck yet, any ideas?

**jakwi** · 05-21-2006

I am about 4 days into linux and I've worked through some problems but I'm not having much luck with the sound card

I found the following page and have followed the istructions

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...le=via82xx#opt

When I get to the section that says

Now insert the modules into the kernel.

modprobe snd-via82xx;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

I get

Code:

Don-Quijote:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.11rc5# modprobe snd-via82xx;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-via82xx
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-pcm-oss
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-mixer-oss
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-seq-oss

I'm not sure why everything else has worked up to this. any suggestions?

in the kinfocenter under sound, it says that no info is available.

thanks for the help, or if it's in a manual somewhere, please point me in the direction of the right section of the manual.

thanks
Jason

**brokndodge** · 05-22-2006

pull up a terminal
type: su
enter your root password
type: apt-get install alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-utils

almost anything you want for debian is available in the repositories thru apt-get or synaptic, you should always check the repositories first. synaptic is a nice (but slow) graphical front end for apt and is extremely easy to use, most things can be located quickly through synaptics search feature. all the packages available to you through the repositories have been tweaked to the particular debian you are running.

**jakwi** · 05-23-2006

Brokndodge,

I did as you said and it appears that it's already installed

Code:

Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi# apt-get install alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
alsa-base is already the newest version.
alsa-oss is already the newest version.
alsa-utils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi#

I nocticed that I'm getting a different error message though

Informational -arts message
Soundserver informational message
Error while initializing the sound driver
device: default can't be opende for
playback (no such device)
The soundserver will continue, using the null output service.

I also noticed that when I go into kinfo center under sound it says that there is no device.

Thanks for your continued help,

Jason

**antidrugue** · 05-23-2006

Which kernel do you have?

Code:

uname -r

Will tell you.

If it gives you something like "2.4.27-2-386" then you need to install some kernel modules to make alsa work:

Code:

apt-get install alsa-modules-$(uname -r)

should get you going.

All those things from the alsa page are really not necessary. At least I never had to do in order to get a working alsa system.

**antidrugue** · 05-23-2006

Plus, if you use Debian Sarge, you'll need to configure Alsa Dmix, given you have an on-board sound card. See how here:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...leas-help.html

**jakwi** · 05-24-2006

Originally Posted by antidrugue

Plus, if you use Debian Sarge, you'll need to configure Alsa Dmix, given you have an on-board sound card. See how here:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...leas-help.html

Well it's working, thanks so much, I'm very happy, but I'm still trying to understand what I did. I ran

Code:

apt-get install alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-utils

I'm pretty sure I had already done that, it didn't install anything new.

then I ran

Code:

apt-get install alsa-modules-$(uname -r)

I'm sure I've tried this one before and it didn't work, but this time it installed
something.

Then I followed the other post

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...leas-help.html

asound.conf didn't exist, but I created it,

esd.conf was definately different, so I modified it

then I ran the

Code:

gstreamer-properties

This didn't work as expected. Alsa wasn't an option anywhere, so I selected autodetect.

I still didn't have sound. so I ran

Code:

alsaconf

again, and rebooted. I. Then I had sound.

I'm happy I have sound on my km4m-v but I wish I understood better what I did.

for example what is asound.conf, and why didn't it atleast exist? How can I better understand what I put in that file.

also what is esd.conf and how can I understand better what I changed there?

I realize, there is probably another site out there that has the explanation I'm looking for, so if you guys know where that might be, just point me in that direction.

Anyway thanks again for the help,

Jason

**brokndodge** · 05-24-2006

glad your up... i'm not up to speed on the older kernels as i run exclusively debian etch with a custom 2.6.15 kernel. i'm not sure about the config files you created/edited. The only times I have had to actually manually edit config files is when i'm trying to do something Debian doesn't support... anyway, it works. bookmark the page you used or print it and put in a binder so you have it next time u need it.

**antidrugue** · 05-24-2006

As "brokndodge" said, this "asound.conf" thing is only necessary with older version of Alsa (prior to 1.10 I think).

So you need it in Debian Sarge, but not in Debian Etch.

Anyway, now it works for you. Good!

**jakwi** · 05-25-2006

Hi guys,

well now I'm just confused.

I rebooted and I had no sound. so I reran alsaconf and this is what I got

Code:

Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi# alsaconf
Terminating processes: 1727 1736 1749 1781.
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.
Building card database...


Running update-modules...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-vxp440.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/updates/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o
Loading driver...
Setting default volumes...


===============================================================================

 Now ALSA is ready to use.
 For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

 Have a lot of fun!

which is what I got the last time I ran it, if I remember correctly. Is there anyway to correct this so that the sound just works when I boot?

thanks again

Jason

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