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List:       alsa-devel
Subject:    [alsa-devel] Problems installing RME96 with ALSA 0.5.7
From:       Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann () 01019freenet ! de>
Date:       2000-04-29 9:59:38
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Installation RME96-Card with ALSA 0.5.7

The installation of the RME96 - card isn't trivial because of a little
bug in the configure. If you run 
configure --with-cards=rme96 --with-oss=yes
the following modules are needed, but not compiled:

snd-mixer.o
mixer.o

Without these 2 modules, the /dev/dsp - device (OSS emulation) doesn't
work because of unresolved symbols.


Solution of the problem:
If you compiled and installed the above configuration, make a second
configure:
configure --with-cards=all --with-oss=yes
and run make, but no install.
Now, the 2 missing modules can be copied in the modules directory in the
subdir misc (/lib/modules/[kernel-version]/misc/].

Now run depmod. But this isn't all. Take care, that the following line
in /lib/modules/[kernel-version]/modules.dep exist:
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/mixer.o:	/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/snd.o \
	/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/snd-mixer.o
It is possible, that the second line isn't here. And this is not good.

In /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules) put the following strings (if you
have
one soundcard)
# ALSA Soundcard RME96
alias char-major-116	  snd
alias snd-card-0	  snd-card-rme96
alias sound-slot-0	  snd-card-0

# OSS free portion
alias char-major-14	  soundcore
alias sound-slot-0	  snd-card-0
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

Warning: Don't forget to creat your sounddevices with snddevices (you
find it in the alsa-driver-0.5.7 -directory).

To get the configuration of the card, enter the following command
alsactl store card1
Now you can read your card-configuration in /etc/asound.conf.

This is the point, where you should be ready and all should be okay. If
you start any sound-programm like alsaplayer or kmpg, they should work
automatically.
If not, try alsasound start. No it must work; otherwise something went
wrong.

The correct loaded sound-modules look like this (after entering lsmod),
if you used the /dev/dsp. If you just used the ALSA-own device, the
first 5 modules aren't loaded.
snd-pcm-oss            16488   0  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-plugin         12968   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss           4116   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
mixer                  13236   0  (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss]
snd-mixer              22384   0  (autoclean) [mixer]
snd-card-rme96          1420   0  (autoclean)
snd-rme96               6604   0  (autoclean) [snd-card-rme96]
snd-pcm                28216   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss
snd-pcm-plugin snd-rme96]
snd-timer               7712   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd                    33228   8  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss
snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss mixer snd-mixer snd-card-rme96 snd-rme96
snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore               2372   2  (autoclean) [snd]



I hope, I could help you a little bit
Have fun,
Andreas
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