[ltp] Sound on a T23

Timothy Murphy linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 5 Sep 2006 23:10:31 +0100


On Tuesday 05 September 2006 22:06, Marco Gaiarin wrote:

> NW> I'm using Madriva 2006 and sound just works out of the box. Initially
>
> Meetoo with ubuntu.

So what lines about sound to you have in /etc/modprobe.conf
and in the output of lsmod ?

I tried the recipe suggested, and it actually made things worse -
I have no /dev/dsp even though the driver snd_

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[tim@martha ~]$ lsmod [irrelevant lines omitted]
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_ac97_codec         92032  0
snd_ac97_bus            1792  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_oss            29888  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5888  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                45744  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6348  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            34624  0
snd_mixer_oss          15424  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                65640  2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              18180  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    42916  8 
snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc          7656  1 snd_pcm

[tim@martha ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf

alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /bin/true
remove snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe -r 
snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 
&& { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
remove i810_audio /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove i810_audio
install i810_audio /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install i810_audio

alias eth0 orinoco_cs
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When I run system-config-soundcard
I read the following in the file /root/scsound.log created:
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Wrong card index 0...
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:273: DeprecationWarning: use 
gtk.ComboBox
  self.primarySubDeviceOptionMenu = gtk.OptionMenu()
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:308: GtkDeprecationWarning: 
gtk.timeout_add is deprecated, use gobject.timeout_add instead
  self.timer = gtk.timeout_add (100, self.checkStatus, self)
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py:548: GtkDeprecationWarning: 
gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead
  gtk.main()
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1305:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
aplay: main:547: audio open error: No such device
Wrong card index 0...
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