[AG-TECH] Re: AG audio indigestion

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Nov 2 19:05:07 CST 2001


latemodel oss installs an/etc/rc.d/init.d to start audio, that might be why 
you got the already loaded message again. mixer control errors aren't a 
problem.

what's the output of

         /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep ':on'

which audio card is this?

--bob

At 10:00 AM 11/2/2001 -0500, Bob Riddle wrote:
>One of my AG audio machines suffered a power outage and fsck'd itself to
>death.  Since it was a machine with an i810 display chip & the Software
>page indicated you could install the AG audio stuff on Redhat 7.1, I
>installed RedHat 7.1 on machine and then ran the update script from the
>AG Software download pages.
>
>I still have no sound .. I get a message from the log:
>  agaudio oss-sound: Starting sound configuration:
>agaudio oss-sound: OSS driver (sndshield) is already loaded
>agaudio oss-sound: Use soundoff to unload it and try again.
>agaudio oss-sound: Value of mixer control extmic.micboost set to OFF
>agaudio oss-sound: Value of mixer control extmic.micbias set to OFF
>agaudio oss-sound: Value of mixer control mute.micmute set to ON
>agaudio oss-sound: Value of mixer control mute.linemute set to ON
>agaudio oss-sound: Value of mixer control mute.pcm2mute set to ON
>agaudio oss-sound: SNDCTL_MIX_NREXT: No such device or address
>agaudio oss-sound: SNDCTL_MIX_NREXT: No such device or address
>agaudio oss-sound: sound
>agaudio oss-sound: SNDCTL_MIX_NREXT: No such device or address
>agaudio last message repeated 2 times
>agaudio rc: Starting oss-sound:  succeeded
>
>Any quick advice?  I noticed in /usr/lib/oss it says it support 2.4.12.
>The other audio machine that works is a machine I built a 2.4.12 kernel
>on.  I'm also wondering if I need to get a new oss license for RH 7.1
>
>sheesh ... a bad time for a power hit on a disk.
>
>
>--
>Bob Riddle (bdr at internet2.edu)  Technologist,Internet2
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