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Duane Morin <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> writes: > Apparently getting sound working on a Thinkpad 600E is something > of a problem, if my googling is any indication. Lots of > people experiencing problems, lots of different solutions. > Here's where I'm at. Alsa 0.9.3 installed, alsaconf > claims to find cs4236 card and installs module. alsasound > seems to work correctly and I can bring up the mixer. > > But, despite /dev/dsp existing, any attempt to access it > (even something as simple as cat > /dev/dsp just to test) > says "No such device." I've tried it as root, same > problem (doesnt seem like a permissions thing). You've tried running aumix? > Perhaps of note -- when I look in /proc/asound, EVERYTHING > except for dev is 0 length. Check it out (sorry for the long > cut n paste): You clearly do not understand /proc... The 0 length is completely reasonable... > ./dev: > total 0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 0 May 10 09:46 controlC0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 24 May 10 09:46 pcmC0D0c > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 16 May 10 09:46 pcmC0D0p > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 33 May 10 09:46 timer These are not lengths; these are device numbers. 116,0; 116,24; 116,16; 116,33 Perfectly normal for a character device (see that 'c' at the beginning of the line??) > That certainly can't be good, can it? What would cause this? No, this is perfectly normal. > I've done make install from alsa, run ./snddevices, all > that stuff. And dev has stuff in it. Why is everything > else 0? Because it's in /proc; it's supposed to be that way. > Just for completeness, here's some relevant /dev/* listings: > > [root at localhost asound]# cd /dev > [root at localhost dev]# ls -l dsp* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 10 09:12 dsp -> /dev/dsp0 > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 May 10 09:12 dsp0 > > > Any suggestions? Have you tried running aumix? > Duane I had a TP600 and sound worked fine right away. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
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