Hi everyone !

About one year and a half ago, I had a peg2, with a SB Live that worked great under MOL with the alsa drivers, even with games such as diablo 2.

Now, I have a new peg2 and a new SB Live (that works perfectly under MOS), but now, under MOL, the sound doesn't work properly. (2.6.11) - sb live and alsa drivers.

Here is what happens for instance if I launch starcraft :
- at the first launch it usually works perfectly
- I play one level then the sound suddenly ceases to work, and the mouse pointer (well, MOL) freezes one second, then works again, and so on, until I quit any app that makes sound... I have to restart MOL to get a little sound again.

--> this is something I experienced, I think, last year, with the onboard sound and ALSA.


I didn't give up and tried the onboard sound chip with the alsa drivers, as some friends reported it to work. However, if I manage to get sound with the alsa driver with, let say, xmms, I get none with MacOnLinux that fails to use the device and falls back to the OSS driver. I also get an error message in my dmesg, I can copy/paste it when I get back home. With the OSS driver it doesn't work at all. I just get one bit of sound once in a while - but MOL doesn't freeze.

What is stranger, so with the onboard sound + alsa, is that, each time I reboot, alsamixer tells me it's using the sb live... Though meanwhile I had launched & configured the via chipset with alsaconf. I checked scripts etc, it "seems" normal...

Well, I'm kinda lost... Any idea ?

I would really prefer using the sb live as I have the feeling its sound is much better. (I use it on hifi system)

Last year I remember I had to disable (in /etc/modules) some OSS drivers to make alsa work properly. I tried to do so with this new installation, but it makes no difference, they seem to get loaded anyway - much more automatic stuff and much longer booting time than my former debian install, one year ago.

Thanks for listening :)


Off-topic : did anyone find a solution to make >=512MB fat formatted SD cards work with poseidon ? I have several but none works ATM though other stuff work well with the very same card reader :)

[ Edited by mahen on 2005/8/3 14:44 ]

what about posting it to www.ppczone.org too ?

Mahen
I've heard that ALSA is not fully working or something with 2.6.11 kernel and that you need to go with OSS.. but it is better to post on ppczone for this... good luck

magnetic

To be more precise :

- I tried to remove the sb live, it makes no difference
- with the onboard sound + alsa, I get the messages :

* via 82 audio probe of 0000:00:0c.5 failed
(at boot time)
* alsalib pcm_direct.c (snd_pcm_direct_init_slave) requested auto format not available, ... etc (when launching mol)

I have the 2.6.8 kernel also installed but can't find the mol modules for it, where could I find them ?

- mahen

Hi Magnetic,

indeed this is not the best place...

I wanted to try with the 2.6.8 kernel but I can't find the mol-modules for it. Any idea ?

(I'm a dumb user, I only tried with apt-get :)

thanks ;)

Edit : hmm, found the 2.6.8-12 on debian.org, but I need the 2.6.8.16 ;)

[ Edited by mahen on 2005/8/3 19:15 ]

Well, so I downgraded to 2.6.8-16 kernel and it makes no difference :'(

Additionnally, an "alsaconf", after installing the mol-modules I had to compile (because I could only find them for 2.6.8-12) triggers a kernel panic when unloading onboard audio alsa modules. (does it make sense ?)

Some misc stuff :
- I have a usb 2 card that works well under both mos (in 1.1) and linux
- somtimes, the mouse pointer freezes, even when no sound is produced
- I use hdc=scsi plus modprobe ide-scsi, otherwise starcraft doesn't detect the cd (and I use it to test mol, as it used to work with this game on my previous peg2 :)