Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 11:02:16 EET
Sakari Aaltonen wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2003, Jan "Evil Twin" Depner wrote:
>
>
>>There was a reply earlier about running ./snddevices. If you don't do
>>that you won't get anything. After you do that you'll probably have to
>>run modprobe again. If you install exactly as directed in the INSTALL
>>file in the alsa-driver.. directory it should work.
>>
>>Jan
>
>
> Well, my ALSA setup could be OK right now, but I don't seem to under-
> stand how to *use* it. For example, I didn't know the M's on top of
> alsamixer's bars meant "mute" - I thought muting was accomplished by
> setting the volume to zero... I have no idea what some of the bars
> are for. amixer says there are some 20 simple controls and some 40
> complex ones. This is much too complicated for me.
>
Have you been using the alsa-docs to do the installation?
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
Click on the link for your card.
> After I unmuted Main and PCM, I did get some sound output with
> aplay and a MIDI file (from the old playmidi package.) But it
> was garbage - evidently, aplay didn't recognize the format.
> And xine won't use ALSA at all, so the unmuting didn't help
> the DVD-and-TV thing.
>
xine will still work with oss emulation. What are the permissions for
/dev/dsp?
Try chmod a+rw /dev/dsp
> As I said earlier, I was unable to compile TiMidity. I'm still
> looking for a MIDI player that I could make run.
>
There is a timidity howto available through http://www.djcj.org and some
example soundfonts with the correct timidity config setup.
-- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur http://www.boosthardware.com http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ========================================Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've ever done.
Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002 The Scotsman
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