[vox-tech] alsa configuration

[Jay Strauss]

Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> list,
> I have been trying to get the sound to work in my computer. At boot when
> the ALSA mixer settings would be loaded, it fails and says to manually
> use "alsactl restore". When I do that, it says "alsactl:
> load_state:1134: No soundcards found...". When I google on that, peoples
> problems mostly seem to be conflicts between OSS and ALSA when they have
> both installed at the same time. As far as I know, the only OSS stuff I
> have is the emulation in ALSA. Here is what lsmod says:
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ds                     15784  4 
> thermal                10352  0 
> fan                     2796  0 
> button                  4696  0 
> processor              14160  1 thermal
> ac                      3308  0 
> battery                 7660  0 
> snd_es1938             21832  0 
> snd_pcm_oss            59912  0 
> snd_mixer_oss          19904  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                99492  2 snd_es1938,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_page_alloc          9768  1 snd_pcm
> snd_opl3_lib           10112  1 snd_es1938
> snd_timer              24644  2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
> snd_hwdep               8416  1 snd_opl3_lib
> snd_mpu401_uart         7104  1 snd_es1938
> snd_rawmidi            22784  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device          7496  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
> snd                    59972  10
> snd_es1938,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore               7328  1 snd
> 8139too                20736  0 
> yenta_socket           18656  1 
> pcmcia_core            62376  2 ds,yenta_socket
> uhci_hcd               30348  0 
> af_packet              16872  0 
> 
> So what should I do? Do I really have some OSS thing that is causing a
> problem for ALSA? Do I have all the right ALSA modules? Thanks.
> Nick
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> 

I had a problem with this too.  In my case I needed to tell discover not 
to load the OSS modules for my card.

I did this like:

echo "skip i810_audio" >> /etc/discover.conf

Maybe someone else on this list can tell you the driver to skip

Jay