Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie
From: Jan \ (eviltwin69_AT_cableone.net)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 01:10:09 EET
That's interesting. If you've got sound you're probably set up
correctly. What kind of sound card are you using???
Jan
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 02:05, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> As I said earlier, I was unable to compile TiMidity. I'm still
> looking for a MIDI player that I could make run.
>
>
> Sakari Aaltonen
>
>
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