alsa problems

[mart_man00]

i just installed alsa and recompiled my kernel, so far no sound.

i made everything a module and reinstalled alsa, but when i start kde i get

Sound Server fatel error
cpu overload, aborting".


i did this using the gentoo alsa guide(im runiing gentoo) and when i run the command "aplay $KDEDIR/share/sounds/pop.wav" i get back(after a delay)
Playing WAVE '/usr/kde/3.1/share/sounds/pop.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:524:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed: Input/output error


any ideas? i have never gotten this card to work in linux, but its fine in windows so i know it works.

thanks

[kapong]

Does it also happen when you are in a console or only when you start KDE? If it is just KDE, try disabling the ARTS sound server. ARTS isn't all that necesary as just it sits on top of ALSA to let KDE apps play wavs.

[mart_man00]

yeah, its only in kde. but i cant play the wav file on the console(well, a konsole in kde). so right no i have no sounds. atleast i dont get module errors on start up now.

any ideas?

thanks

[mart_man00]

if i run xmms and setit up for alsa a zillion dialog boxes fill up my screen. its a couple per second so i cant really read it. theres so many it eventualy crashes.

so to keep bumbing here but i really need some help here.

thanks

[mart_man00]

heres is what lsmod gave me


Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-mixer-oss 13912 0 (autoclean)
floppy 52540 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 16068 1 (autoclean)
lp 7264 0 (autoclean)
ipt_ttl 600 1 (autoclean)
ipt_unclean 7224 2 (autoclean)
ipt_limit 1080 34 (autoclean)
ipt_state 568 5 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 1740 1 (autoclean)
iptable_mangle 2168 0 (unused)
ipt_LOG 3544 1
ipt_MASQUERADE 1592 0 (unused)
ipt_TOS 1048 0 (unused)
ipt_REDIRECT 824 0 (unused)
iptable_nat 17496 0 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT]
ipt_REJECT 2968 0 (unused)
ip_tables 12792 14 [ipt_ttl ipt_unclean ipt_limit ipt_state iptab le_filter iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ipt_REJECT]
ip_conntrack_irc 3152 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp 4368 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack 22432 4 [ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT iptable _nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp]
snd-emu10k1 75060 1
snd-pcm 62592 1 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 16552 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-hwdep 5344 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem 1312 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-page-alloc 4944 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 14656 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 4404 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 37664 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd 31652 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer s nd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 4132 3 [snd]


i emerge alsa-xmms. when i ran xmms with alsa it just did nothing, under oss it just froze.

i have emu10k1, oss, 100% compatibles as modules in my kernel. i dont care what im using, i just wont decent sounding sound!

[cjanscen]

Did you follow Gentoo's guide exactly? It looks like to me that you configured something wrong, and is emu10k1 you're chipset? Which card make/model do you have?