[AG-TECH] RAT not finding audio card

[Mark D. Johnson]

Don,
    There may be an issue with the OSS for that card.  If it's the SB live, like I
have, I don't think the OSS will work.  BTW are you using more than one card?  I think
one is all you need.  What does the system say at boot time, does it say that it's
loading the sound system?
When I decided to try Linux RH 7.0, that seemed to fix my driver problem; just had to
install a new Java runtime.
-mark

Don Morton wrote:

> All, to add more info to the equation (please just ignore this all
> if it ain't your cup of tea :):
>
> - I am using the Creative SB 128 audio cards (I think, just
>   for the halibut, I'll pull two of them just to remove them
>   from the equation.)
>
> - I am using the OSS drivers obtained from 4front
>
> - I am appending the output of "cat /dev/sndstat" to this message.
>   I don't know what "all" of it means (yet), but it appears that things
>   are being found, anyway....
>
> Thanks again, Don
>
> Don Morton wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, I've found the likely reason that I can't receive anybody's
> > audio is that rat isn't finding my audio card.  Apparently, being
> > able to hear a Neil Young cd or a RealAudio stream (which I guess
> > operates in half-duplex) is no guarantee that rat will work (which
> > I guess operates in duplex.  Essentially, when I go through the audio
> > menu of rat, under the "select alternate devices" (or something like
> > that section, the only option is something like "No Audio Device"
> >
> > I "guess" that maybe there's an IRQ assignment problem that "maybe"
> > I need to look into but, in /var/log/messages, at boot, I get
> > a message saying:
> >
> > -------------
> > Feb 27 15:34:57 AGNAudioCapture modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-sl
> > ot-0
> > Feb 27 15:34:57 AGNAudioCapture modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-se
> > rvice-0-6
> > -------------
> >
> > Does anybody know if these are actually needed by rat, or am I probably safe
> > ignoring
> > this?
>
> [root at AGNAudioCapture log]# cat /dev/sndstat
> OSS/Linux 3.9.4c (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-2000
>
> License serial number: N02680983
> Options: APCI
> This copy of OSS is licensed to Don Morton
>
> Build: 2.2.18-SMP
>
> Card config:
> Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 at 0xdf00 irq 20
> Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 at 0xde80 irq 18
> Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 at 0xdd80 irq 16
>
> Audio devices:
> 0: Ensoniq AudioPCI97 (DUPLEX)
> 1: Ensoniq AudioPCI97 (playback only)
> 2: Ensoniq AudioPCI97 (DUPLEX)
> 3: Ensoniq AudioPCI97 (playback only)
> 4: Ensoniq AudioPCI97 (DUPLEX)
> 5: Ensoniq AudioPCI97 (playback only)
>
> Synth devices:
>
> Midi devices:
> 0: AudioPCI97
> 1: AudioPCI97
> 2: AudioPCI97
>
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
>
> Mixers:
> 0: AudioPCI 97 (STAC9708)
> 1: AudioPCI 97 (STAC9708)
> 2: AudioPCI 97 (STAC9708)

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