ALSA installation problem

[barty]

Hi all,

I'm having hard times installing ALSA for my soundcard. I'm running on tcl 2.9. Appartenty the sound card is detected (I can hear a click in my headphones when running alsaconf) but no /dev/snd is created.

alsaconf


          Following card(s) are found on your system.                     │
          Choose a soundcard to configure:                                │
 
 │via82xx  VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50│ │
 │legacy   Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips                             │ │


Loading driver...
Starting sound driver: snd-via82xx
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
Setting default volumes...
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /etc/asound.state.
alsactl: save_state:1502: No soundcards found...

===============================================================================

 Now ALSA is ready to use.
 For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

 Have a lot of fun!

root@box:~# lsmod | grep '^snd'

snd_seq_dummy            632  0
snd_seq_oss            17232  0
snd_seq_midi_event      2640  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                25980  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            24620  0
snd_mixer_oss           8536  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx            11864  0
snd_ac97_codec         66288  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm                36852  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              10340  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         2788  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi             9732  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          2788  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    25936 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc          4028  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm

[bmarkus]

Did you try

sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start
speaker-test

?

[barty]

Thanks for help.
It seems to me that there was a package/configuration conflict. I cleaned up my backup tgz and removed all packages and installed them again. Now sound card works like a charm.