ALSA woes solved.

[ghenry]

Hi all, after following various guides on this, I got everything working, but only as root (not saving volume on reboot though, that's for later).

I am running test1, with 2.6.5-rc2 kernel and the latest alsa rpms from rawhide(not kernel modules rpm, as that is already enabled in the kernel).

Everything was working when logged in as root. So it must be some permission error. It was. Make sure you have read, write permission on everything in /dev/snd/*

I will get back to you when I have saved the permissions and settings on reboot.

[Ug]

Well done.

[ghenry]

A good thread, for slackware, but good for us anyway:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/2/2004/02/3/136581


and

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=134933&highlight=alsa

and

http://foolish.digitalinc.info/docs/alsa/

These, will give you the basics.

[Ug]

Linked to front page btw.

[foolish]

Glad to see this one worked out, maybe you should put this in the phpwiki thingy as well as in here?

[mhelios]

Originally posted by foolish
Glad to see this one worked out, maybe you should put this in the phpwiki thingy as well as in here?
Hi foolish,

Where is this wiki page you refer to? Thanks.

[ghenry]

I think he might mean:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/

Read through this, as it is a good one.

My problem was:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=FAQ025

and (Troubleshooting section)

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=Quick+Install


More notes:

All your sound card details are in:

/proc/asound/*

Take a look in there by using cat to see whats in those files.

For some reason, we are missing the correct lines which keep the volume settings on reboot, in /etc/modprobe.conf. These will follow.

I am assured that these are all bugs on Test1 and will be fixed in test2.

Fingers crossed.