problems with sound

problems with sound

[Vikram Rayabhari]

Hi,

I have installed redhat linux 5.2 (2.0.36) recently on my pentium box.
When I run sndconfig, it detects an ES1371 and I am able to hear the
sample. HEAR are the messages displayed at boot time.

obelix kernel: es1371: version v0.2 time 22:31:29 Oct 13 1998
obelix kernel: es1371: found adapter at io 0x1480 irq 11
obelix kernel: es1371: features: joystick 0x0
obelix kernel: es1371: codec vendor TRA revision 3
obelix kernel: es1371: codec features none
obelix kernel: es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement

but the problem is that I am not able to play any files. The CD player is
working fine tho. playmidi gives the message :

open /dev/sequencer: Operation not supported by device

rvplayer gives out message :

****audio: write error: 64 bytes errno: 11
****audio: write error: 64 bytes errno: 11

# ls -l /dev/audio* /dev/dsp /dev/sequencer 
crw-rw--w-   1 root     sys       14,   4 May  5  1998 /dev/audio
crw-rw--w-   1 root     sys       14,  20 May  5  1998 /dev/audio1
crw-rw--w-   1 root     sys       14,   3 May  5  1998 /dev/dsp
crw-rw--w-   1 root     sys       14,   1 May  5  1998 /dev/sequencer

I tried changing permissions to the above files, but no success!!

I am new to linux. any type of help will be appreciated.

thanks
vikram

Re: problems with sound

[Bill Nottingham]

Vikram Rayabhari (vikram@asterix.cis.ohio-state.edu) said: 
> but the problem is that I am not able to play any files. The CD player is
> working fine tho. playmidi gives the message :
> 
> open /dev/sequencer: Operation not supported by device

The es1370 doesn't have a midi sequencer.

> rvplayer gives out message :
> 
> ****audio: write error: 64 bytes errno: 11
> ****audio: write error: 64 bytes errno: 11

rvplayer runs into the same problem with the es1370 driver
that it does with kernels >= 2.2.

--
RealPlayer
=====

   Current releases of Real Player 5.0 depend on a bug in the sound
sub-system which is no longer there.  Consequently, they don't work.
Real is aware of the problem and should have an updated version of the
software available shortly.  In the mean time, you can always try
backing up your copy of rvplayer, and then editing it by:
   
dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seeke7586 conv=notrunc
dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seekf5986 conv=notrunc
      
If you're lucky, you'll then have sound....
	 
You may also need to edit it with
	    
dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seekp2554 conv=notrunc
	       
as well.  Alternately, download rpopen from
http://onramp.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ and pre-load it before you run
rvplayer (it's a shared object which blocks rvplayer from doing the
NONBLOCKing open of /dev/dsp).
--

Bill