[mythtv-users] Sound Card problems, Second card addition messed up my original settings.now no sound.

Bruce mythtv at bruce.homelinux.com
Fri Feb 6 21:35:59 EST 2004


Ok,

So my goal is to have 2 working cards.

My first card was working great using the audio on my
motherboard(c-media).

My 2nd card video was working, but I needed to config the audio.
For a second audio card I am using an Aureal Vortex2 from an old dell
system.
I found alsla drivers and downloaded them and let them install them at
will. I couldnt get alsamixer running so I went in and executed
./snddevices inside the alsa driver tar directory. This allowed me to
start alsamixer and raise the volume levels of everything.

The execution also moved around my /dev/dsp and linked it to /dev/dsp0.
Fine. I adjusted my main myth card to point to /dev/dsp0.

I still dont get any audio, nor do I see my onboard snd as working any
more. I am thoroughly confused.
Also, I am not sure if my modules.conf file is correct. Alsa loaded some
settings but I think that it assumed no other sound was present.

Here is some info:
lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
snd-seq-midi            5248   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-oss            34144   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      6080   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq                47088   2  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-au8830             63168   1  (autoclean)
snd-mpu401-uart         5376   0  (autoclean) [snd-au8830]
snd-rawmidi            18944   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi
snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          6252   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
gameport                3364   0  (autoclean) [snd-au8830]
snd-ac97-codec         58636   0  (autoclean) [snd-au8830]
snd-pcm-oss            43780   1  (autoclean)
snd-pcm                85088   0  (autoclean) [snd-au8830 snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer              19940   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc         10068   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-mixer-oss          16272   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd                    47012   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-au8830 snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mixer-oss]
bttv                  109568   2
tuner                  12288   2  (autoclean)
tda9887                 4572   1  (autoclean)
tvaudio                16636   0  (autoclean) (unused)
i2c-algo-bit            8776   2  [bttv]
soundcore               6468   8  [snd bttv]
i2c-core               19044   0  [bttv tuner tda9887 tvaudio
i2c-algo-bit]
nls_iso8859-1           3548   2  (autoclean)
autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_string              2648  11  (autoclean)
ipt_TOS                 1688   1  (autoclean)
ipt_LOG                 4216  12  (autoclean)
ipt_limit               1560  16  (autoclean)
ipt_MASQUERADE          2200   1  (autoclean)
ipt_state               1080   6  (autoclean)
iptable_mangle          2808   1  (autoclean)
iptable_nat            20952   1  (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE]
ip_conntrack           26824   2  (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state
iptable_nat]
tulip                  54496   2
crc32                   3680   0  [tulip]
ipt_REJECT              4344   8  (autoclean)
iptable_filter          2412   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              15328  12  [ipt_string ipt_TOS ipt_LOG ipt_limit
ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state iptable_mangle iptable_nat ipt_REJECT
iptable_filter]
ide-scsi               12016   0
scsi_mod              106964   1  [ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 35392   0
cdrom                  33216   0  [ide-cd]
loop                   11800   6  (autoclean)
lvm-mod                61792   0
keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
mousedev                5428   0  (unused)
hid                    24484   0  (unused)
input                   5696   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci               26092   0  (unused)
usbcore                77504   1  [hid usb-uhci]
ext3                   70308   9
jbd                    51636   9  [ext3]


cat /etc/modules.conf

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 tulip
alias eth1 tulip
alias eth2 8211
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options tulip options=3


alias char-major-195 nvidia
#alias sound au8830
#alias midi au8830
alias sound au8830
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.2 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-au8830
alias sound-slot-0 snd-au8830
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---


Does anyone have a clue? How do I get my motherboard audio to work
again? With 2 sound devices, I should have something for /dev/dsp0 and
/dev/dsp1 right?

Thanks
Bruce




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