[Asterisk-Users] ALSA help required !

[Adnan Shah]

 I have just installed the Alsa drivers
 for my 2.4.18-14 kernel (RH8). I have configured
 the sound card ok with alsaconf and tested
 with the aplay , works fine. But when I run
 asterisk it says..
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 [chan_alsa.so] => (ALSA Console Channel Driver)
 Apr 20 18:28:34 ERROR[8192]: chan_alsa.c:339 alsa_card_init:
 snd_pcm_open failed: No such device or address
 Apr 20 18:28:34 ERROR[8192]: chan_alsa.c:339 alsa_card_init:
 snd_pcm_open failed: No such device or address
 Apr 20 18:28:34 ERROR[8192]: chan_alsa.c:474 soundcard_init: Problem
 opening alsa I/O devices
 
   == No sound card detected -- console channel will be unavailable
 
   == Turn off ALSA support by adding 'noload=chan_alsa.so' in
 /etc/asterisk/modules.conf
 
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earlier when using the OSS, the playback was choppy not smooth,
I added some more RAM (total 256 on Intel PIII 600 processor), but the
problem was still there so I turned to the Alsa drivers.Asterisk doesn't
seem to work with it ....what might be wrong, any ideas ?