[mythtv-users] Sound Problem - Any Help Appreciated (A Little OT, but not much)

[Keith Jones]

"Little OT" because it's not Myth related (yet). I'm trying to install
Myth, have been for a few weeks, but first want to get my system working
properly. I've got xawtv installed, great picture but NO SOUND. Try as I
might, and I have gone through this list extensively, I can't find the
problem. So, please if you have time and a similar configuration, bear
with me...

H/W: Dell PIII, 550MHz, 500MB, tons of disk, all OK.
Capture: AverMedia Studio BT card
Sound: SB Live 5.1
OS: RH9:
Linux mediasrv 2.4.20-18.9 #1 Thu May 29 07:08:16 EDT 2003 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

Here's the complete contents of my modules.conf.

alias eth0 tulip
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
                                                                                                           
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# module options should go here
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
options snd-emu10k1 snd_index=0 snd_id="SBlive"
                                                                                                           
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
                                                                                                           
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias midi snd-synth-emu10k1
                                                                                                           
below snd-seq-oss snd-synth-emu10k1
#post-install snd-synth-emu10k1 /bin/sfxload/hom
/home/midi/8mbgmsfx.sf2;alsactl restore
post-install snd-synth-em10k1 alsactl restore
pre-remove snd-synth-emu10k1 alsactl store
                                                                                                           
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
                                                                                                           
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias char-major-195 nvidia
# bttv
alias char-major-81     videodev
alias char-major-81-0   bttv
options bttv            radio=1
#pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner;modprobe -k tda9840
alias char-major-81-1 btaudio
#options btaudio dsp1=1
                                                                                                           
One question - I don't seem to have a tda9840 driver, do I need this?
(leaving this line out makes no difference though).

Some messages and dmesg output (|grep mod) - LOADS of suspicious
messages...:

Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-synth-emu10k1 which is needed for snd-seq-oss
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-1
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-2
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-3
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-4
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-5
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-6
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-7
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-1
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-1
Jul 14 19:26:26 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-2
Jul 14 19:26:27 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-2
Jul 14 19:26:27 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-3
Jul 14 19:26:27 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-3
Jul 14 19:28:30 mediasrv kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed
for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 14 19:28:30 mediasrv kernel: PIIX4: not 100%% native mode: will
probe irqs later
Jul 14 19:28:30 mediasrv kernel: PDC20262: not 100%% native mode: will
probe irqs later
Jul 14 19:28:36 mediasrv kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with
ordered data mode.
Jul 14 19:28:36 mediasrv kernel: usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
Jul 14 19:28:37 mediasrv kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with
ordered data mode.
Jul 14 19:28:37 mediasrv kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with
ordered data mode.
Jul 14 19:29:01 mediasrv alsasound: Warning: ignoring snd_major=116, no
such parameter in this module
Jul 14 19:29:01 mediasrv alsasound: Warning: ignoring snd_cards_limit=1,
no such parameter in this module
Jul 14 19:29:01 mediasrv alsasound: Warning: ignoring snd_index=0, no
such parameter in this module
Jul 14 19:29:02 mediasrv alsasound: Warning: ignoring snd_id=SBlive, no
such parameter in this module
Jul 14 19:29:03 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-1
Jul 14 19:29:04 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-1
Jul 14 19:29:04 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-2
Jul 14 19:29:04 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-2
Jul 14 19:29:04 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-3
Jul 14 19:29:05 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
snd-card-3
Jul 14 19:29:14 mediasrv insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o:
init_module: Device or resource busy
Jul 14 19:29:14 mediasrv insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
parameters.       You may find more information in syslog or the output
from dmesg
Jul 14 19:29:14 mediasrv insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o: insmod
parport_lowlevel failed
Jul 14 19:29:15 mediasrv modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-188
Jul 14 19:32:45 mediasrv kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module
Jul 14 19:32:45 mediasrv kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm
module


dmesg:

[keith at mediasrv keith]$ dmesg|grep bt
bttv: driver version 0.7.104 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:11.0, irq: 10, latency: 132, mmio:
0xf4021000
bttv0: detected: AVerMedia TVPhone98 [card=41], PCI subsystem ID is
1461:0003
bttv0: using: BT878(AVerMedia TVPhone 98) [card=41,autodetected]
bttv0: enabling ETBF (430FX/VP3 compatibilty)
i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
bttv0: Avermedia eeprom[0x4803]: tuner=2 radio:yes remote control:yes
bttv0: using tuner=2
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tuner: probing bt848 #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
i2c-core.o: client [Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and ] registered to
adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).


I'm sure this points to the configuration error somewhere. My apologies
for the huge post, but any hints would be welcome.

I'd do it for you!

TIA,

Keith.