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Miscellaneous => Technical Support => Topic started by: adiment on 11 June 2006, 06:25

Title: nForce drivers + Dapper = Dead ALSA and ESD
Post by: adiment on 11 June 2006, 06:25

I installed the nForce driver for audio on Ubuntu Dapper so I could skype/teamspeak + game at the same time and it works great. However ALSA doesn't seem to know that my sound card exists. I'm no guru, so not sure where to go from here. I can ONLY use OSS. :(

lsmod | grep snd:

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snd_intel8x0   35740  0
snd_ac97_codec 98912  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2688  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 56352  0
snd_mixer_oss  20800  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 96772  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer  27204  1 snd_pcm
snd 60068  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore  11040  5 nvsound,snd
snd_page_alloc 11592  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

# /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart:

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* Shutting down ALSA...  * warning: 'alsactl store' failed with error message 'alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found...'...  [fail]
 * Setting up ALSA...  * warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'alsactl: load_state:1236: No soundcards found...'... [ ok ]

Any suggestions? :confused:

Title: Re: nForce drivers + Dapper = Dead ALSA and ESD
Post by: WMD on 11 June 2006, 08:39

Is nvsound actually an ALSA driver?  If OSS works then I'd say that nvsound is a driver for OSS and that they'd need to write a different one for ALSA to work.

Title: Re: nForce drivers + Dapper = Dead ALSA and ESD
Post by: adiment on 11 June 2006, 09:27

You're right. nvsound is only OSS. Pirate Penguin IM'ed me and helped me get everything to use OSS instead of ALSA. Big thanks to him!