[plug] ethernet

[adrian_blockley at dingoblue.net.au]

G'day Phil

Have you had any luck yet with your sound card.  I couldn't see anything
wrong with your module listings.  I've also sent my for a comparrison (for
what its worth.  You don't explain "not working"  - apart from the obvious
meaning of - I get no ssound.  There is a gotcha with alsa in that all the
devices are muted.  It maybe that you need to use amixer to turn off
muting.  Once you've turned muting off and set some default volume
settings you can save them with

/usr/sbin/alsactl save

and restore them at boot time with

/usr/sbin/alsactl restore

which I have put in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

  

There are a few other places you can try to find out what is happening
with alsa.

What happens when you type

cat /proc/asound/sndstat 

As I remember, the /proc/asound directory doesn't get created if alsa
doesn't load and detect cards properly.

As an example of a (mostly) working alsa if i cat
/proc/asound/sndstat i get the following

Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.4.1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux agepc.dingoblue.net.au 2.2.12 #2 Wed Sep 8 08:59:00 WST 1999
i586
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config: 
ESS AudioDrive ES1869 at 0x220, irq 5, dma1 1, dma2 3

Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 (UART)

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: ESS AudioDrive ES1869
  



Hope this Helps 


Age


============================================
My lsmod listing
============================================
Module                  Size  Used by
ppp                    19904   2  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss           3580   1  (autoclean)
snd-card-es18xx         4316   1 
isapnp                 23497   0  [snd-card-es18xx]
snd-mpu401-uart         1432   0  [snd-card-es18xx]
snd-midi               11628   0  [snd-card-es18xx snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-es18xx             13416   0  [snd-card-es18xx]
snd-mixer              24640   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-card-es18xx
snd-es18xx]
snd-pcm1               16572   0  [snd-es18xx]
snd-pcm                 8108   0  [snd-card-es18xx snd-pcm1]
snd-opl3                1732   0  [snd-card-es18xx]
snd-timer               7196   0  [snd-pcm1 snd-opl3]
snd-hwdep               2220   0  [snd-card-es18xx snd-opl3]
snd                    32268   1  [snd-mixer-oss snd-card-es18xx
snd-mpu401-uart snd-midi snd-es18xx snd-mixer snd-pcm1 snd-pcm snd-opl3
snd-timer snd-hwdep]
soundcore               2148   3  [snd]
smbfs                  25976   0  (unused)
ip_masq_irc             1360   0  (unused)
ip_masq_raudio          2736   0  (unused)
ip_masq_ftp             2352   0  (unused)
3c503                   5600   1  (autoclean)
8390                    6244   0  (autoclean) [3c503]



> I'm got two probs at the moment, one relates to the fact that I cant get any
> sound out of my linux box and the other is the ethernet card. I've read both
> the Alsa howto doc and the ethernet howto but I'm lost as to why nither
> cards are willing to work. If anyone here is willing to help me I'd
> apreatiate it muchly. I've attatched a copy of the lsmod print out if that
> helps. The cards I'm using are both 'non brand name' but use common
> chipsets. The sound card uses the FM801 and the ethernet card uses
> Matronixs' MX987XX which the tulip.o driver supports. I'm using RH6.1.
> 
> Ta muchly in advance
> Phil
> 

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