[Voyage-linux] audio issue on ALIX board

[Jeff Ramin]

I got it working. I can't remember exactly which packages I
had to install, but after some apt-gets and changes to modules.conf,
I have sound.


David Gascón wrote:
> have you installed de alsa packages (*)? and the alsa-oss?
> once you do, execute alsamixer and turn the volume up.
> 
> David.
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> I just got an ALIX.3 with the optional audio support, which is
>> apparently the CS5535 chip. I had no problem installing voyage
>> 4.1 on it.
>>
>> I'm running a Java application on the board, and I can't access
>> the audio system. I can see that the CS5535 module is loaded, but
>> the Java app isn't able to use the subsystem (see command output
>> below).
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks!
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> ramin at voyage:/proc/asound/oss$ cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
>> Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.14rc1 emulation code)
>> Kernel: Linux voyage 2.6.20-486-voyage #1 PREEMPT Mon Jul 16 06:39:47
>> GMT 2007 i586
>> Config options: 0
>>
>> Installed drivers:
>> Type 10: ALSA emulation
>>
>> Card config:
>> CS5535 Audio cs5535audio at 0xfe00, irq 5
>>
>> Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>>
>> Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>>
>> Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>>
>> Timers:
>> 7: system timer
>>
>> Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Here are the loaded modules:
>>
>> ramin at voyage:/proc/asound/oss$ lsmod
>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> ipv6                  209036  18
>> dm_mod                 41420  0
>> geodewdt                3468  2
>> scx200_acb              4868  0
>> hwmon_vid               2432  0
>> i2c_isa                 3712  0
>> i2c_core               15760  2 scx200_acb,i2c_isa
>> hostap_pci             44560  0
>> hostap                 94852  1 hostap_pci
>> ieee80211_crypt         4480  1 hostap
>> natsemi                21216  0
>> snd_cs5535audio         9788  0
>> snd_ac97_codec         85292  1 snd_cs5535audio
>> snd_pcm                58760  2 snd_cs5535audio,snd_ac97_codec
>> snd_timer              16516  1 snd_pcm
>> snd                    37988  6
>> snd_cs5535audio,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
>> soundcore               5856  1 snd
>> ac97_bus                2048  1 snd_ac97_codec
>> snd_page_alloc          7176  2 snd_cs5535audio,snd_pcm
>> ehci_hcd               22412  0
>> ohci_hcd               14468  0
>> usbcore                96408  3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
>> via_rhine              18056  0
>> mii                     4352  1 via_rhine
>> bitrev                  1792  2 natsemi,via_rhine
>> crc32                   3840  2 natsemi,via_rhine
>>
> 
> 

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