Re: install troubles

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 16:58, robin wrote:

> >My system is an Intel 685 motherboard, RME 9632 card, a SCSI disk, an
> >IDE disk, and a SATA disk.
> >
> >I installed demudi 1.2 on the IDE disk. There are a few SCSI and X and
> >font irritations I think I could deal with, but it doesn't recognize the
> >RME card -- modprobe snd-hdsp says there is no device; during the alsa
> >startup at boot, there's a warning that there's no mixer; and jack says
> >it can't connect to the server.
> >
> >lspci says there's a RME card, and it is seen during boot. And I've had
> >it running before, under Gentoo (it isn't anymore since I updated
> >something).


> What does
> lsmod | grep snd
> show

snd-seq-midi            3968   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      3648   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq                41968   3  (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi
snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-hdsp               40520   5
snd-pcm-oss            39944   0  (unused)
snd-mixer-oss          13880   1  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-pcm                65664   2  [snd-hdsp snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer              16868   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-hwdep               5280   0  [snd-hdsp]
snd-page-alloc          6552   0  [snd-hdsp snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi            14656   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-hdsp]
snd-seq-device          4324   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd                    36132   2  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq snd-hdsp snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3876   7  [snd]


BUT -- this is from a working system. I booted demudi to get the data to
answer your question, and the snd-hdsp module loaded, jack worked,
rezound came up and started bouncing its meters, and the hdsp mixer and
config programs came up. Nothing from the speakers yet, but I didn't
expect there to be yet (I don't even know if they're plugged in -- signs
of life from the RME card has been the problem).

Maybe I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but now I'm more
confused than ever. I swear I didn't do anything to it (that I know of).
I looked through the output of dmesg, but didn't see anything of
interest in there. There was some interesting looking messages on the
console during boot -- do you know where they were logged?

If you have any explanations or conjectures about this, I'd sure like to
hear them.

-- 
Glenn English
ghe@xxxxxxxxxxx