On 7/21/10, John Simpson john@swajime.com wrote:

On 7/21/10, Clemens Ladisch clemens@ladisch.de wrote:

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John Simpson wrote:

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Playback open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Make sure that both your kernel and your alsa-lib use the correct compiler and compiler flags (where "correct" usually means "whatever the vendor's distribution uses").

You've gone way over my head ... How do I find out what flags were used to compile the kernel?

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This time, checking out https://vcs.maemo.org/svn/dsp-alsa

It would be nice to know what the changes from the original alsa-lib are; in theory, they should go upstream.

I agree ... but it looks like that is an abandoned project; at https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=dsp-alsa it says the last modification was 3 years ago. The text file "version" says 1.0.10

I found that "apt-get source libasound2" gives me a newer version: [1|user at Nokia-N810-43-7|~/src/alsa-lib-1.0.14sa/test]cat ../../alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.dsc Format: 1.0 Source: alsa-lib Version: 1.0.14sa-2maemo2 Binary: lib32asound2-dev, lib64asound2, lib32asound2, libasound2-dev, libasound2, libasound2-doc, libasound2-dbg, lib64asound2-dev Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.7.2 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.2.32), quilt (>= 0.40), autotools-dev, doxygen, libc6-dev-powerpc [ppc64], libc6-dev-i386 [amd64], libc6-dev-ppc64 [powerpc], libc6-dev-s390x [s390], libc6-dev-sparc64 [sparc], lib32gcc1 [amd64 ppc64], libc6-dev (>= 2.5) [armel] Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-alsa/trunk/alsa-lib/ Uploaders: Jordi Mallach <jordi at debian.org>, Mikael Magnusson <mikma at users.sourceforge.net>, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de>, Marc-Andre Lureau <marc-andre.lureau at nokia.com> Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-alsa/trunk/alsa-lib Files: 5542a18a1479e4de4b9890e30e94588e 1099165 alsa-lib_1.0.14sa.orig.tar.gz fc02aa3dbf2f66fb090e02ada703cc1d 47455 alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.diff.gz

This version seems to install correctly, but still gives me no sound. The full log of my latest effort is here -> http://www.swajime.com/n810/alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.log

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$ cd dsp-alsa/trunk/alsa-lib #### cvscompile does not succeed

Why?

I honestly don't know. :-( It looks like a bug in m4? Here is the log for cvscompile: [1|root@Nokia-N810-43-7|/home/user/src/dsp-alsa/trunk/alsa-lib]cat cvscompile #!/bin/bash

touch ltconfig libtoolize --force --copy --automake aclocal $ACLOCAL_FLAGS autoheader automake --foreign --copy --add-missing touch depcomp # seems to be missing for old automake autoconf export CFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -W -pipe -g' echo "CFLAGS=$CFLAGS" echo "./configure $@" ./configure $@ || exit 1 unset CFLAGS if [ -z "$CVSCOMPILE_NO_MAKE" ]; then make fi [1|user@Nokia-N810-43-7|~/src/dsp-alsa/trunk/alsa-lib]bash -v ./cvscompile #!/bin/bash

touch ltconfig libtoolize --force --copy --automake aclocal $ACLOCAL_FLAGS aclocal: configure.in: 41: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library autoheader configure.in:41: /usr/local/bin/m4: ERROR: Copying inserted file: No space left on device autom4te: /usr/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 autoheader: /usr/local/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1 automake --foreign --copy --add-missing configure.in:41: /usr/local/bin/m4: ERROR: Copying inserted file: No space left on device autom4te: /usr/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal). automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified touch depcomp # seems to be missing for old automake autoconf configure.in:41: /usr/local/bin/m4: ERROR: Copying inserted file: No space left on device autom4te: /usr/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 export CFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -W -pipe -g' echo "CFLAGS=$CFLAGS" CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -W -pipe -g echo "./configure $@" ./configure ./configure $@ || exit 1 ./cvscompile: line 13: ./configure: No such file or directory [1|user@Nokia-N810-43-7|~/src/dsp-alsa/trunk/alsa-lib]

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$ .libs/pcm -D 'default' -vf 440 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 44100Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz Using transfer method: write

Still no sound :-(

Mixer controls not set? (amixer and alsamixer are in alsa-utils)

I haven't been able to find alsa-utils in any maemo/diablo repositories.

I found that alsa-tools is in the fremantle repo: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/a/alsa-utils/

It bricks the n810 :-(

Fremantle is not compatible with the n810 as I remember.