Re: my sound card does not work in etch

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 08:26:35 -0400, qipaishi wrote:
> My sound card use cs4281 and it works in sarge
> but it does not work in etch
> xawtv has no sound
> xmix can't start, it says no such device

Which device is missing, /dev/dsp? You need OSS emulation for that one to be present. (OSS is the old sound system. ALSA, the new one, provides legacy support for application which still expect the OSS-specific devices to be present.)

> below is output by lsmod:

[...]

> snd_cs4281 20000 0
> gameport 14632 2 snd_cs4281
> snd_rawmidi 22560 1 snd_cs4281
> snd_ac97_codec 83104 1 snd_cs4281
> snd_ac97_bus 2400 1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm 68676 2 snd_cs4281,snd_ac97_codec
> snd_page_alloc 9640 1 snd_pcm
> snd_opl3_lib 9920 1 snd_cs4281
> snd_seq_device 7820 2 snd_rawmidi,snd_opl3_lib
> snd_timer 20996 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
> snd_hwdep 8836 1 snd_opl3_lib
> snd 47012 8 snd_cs4281,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep

[...]

> soundcore 9248 2 btaudio,snd

[...]

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Try to do (as root):

modprobe snd_pcm_oss

If that does not help then you should post the output of

cat /dev/sndstat

and the error messages that you get from running "amixer".

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