[ltp] Re: help with wireless/sound on R50

[Joshua Megerman]

> I did add those lines to my modules.conf. (there were no sound related
> lines there before. I ran alsaconf and now have some sound. For instance
> Gaim has sound. I do not have any KDE sounds so I was wondering how you
> "tell kde to use aplay"
>
In the Sound & Multimedia configuration, in the System Notifications panel, 
click "Player Settings" and tell it to use aplay (mine is at /usr/bin/aplay) 
as the external player.

> I also cannot get xmms to work. I am getting this error:
> ** WARNING **: alsa_setup_mixer(): Failed to find mixer element: PCM
>
> XMMS opens, and it plays the mp3, but no soud comes out.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Sounds like your kernel doesn't have all of the necessary modules in it.  
Here's the list of modules I have loaded:

snd_intel8x0           30824  1
snd_ac97_codec         62404  1 snd_intel8x0
gameport                3648  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         6208  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            20384  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_oss            32384  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6144  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                52304  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6536  3 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            50148  0
snd_pcm                87012  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc          9028  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_timer              21956  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          17792  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    47908  14 
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               7584  1 snd

Make sure you have the OSS emulation compiled in, as a number of programs use 
it rathter than the new ALSA-native interface...

Josh
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