[linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie

[D R Holsbeck]

try "alsamixer" which should be part of alsa-utils. Or you can try
"amixer", more powerfull but a bit more complicated.
 
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 09:26, Sakari Aaltonen wrote:
> I have been trying to get ALSA (0.9.0rc5) working with an on-board
> ALC650 chip, ALSA because that is what the chip's manufacturer,
> Realtek, offers on their website. (I assume that this means
> that the sound code in kernel 2.4.20 won't work with the chip.)
> 
> I compiled everything and made 'insmod' with 'snd' and 'snd-via82xx',
> with no error messages that I could see (a lot of other modules
> were loaded automatically.) I also ran the make-dev's script.
> Yet, no sound.
> 
> So I looked at Sound-HOWTO's. They stress the importance of seeing
> kernel messages about sound. Well, I don't see any.
> 
> Then, because ALSA apparently mutes everything by default, I
> tried compiling two mixers from the ALSA site. No success,
> because I was missing some libraries. Also, I was pretty
> confused about what version of ALSA they were supposed to work
> with.
> 
> Of course, I can start looking for those libraries, but while
> I do that, could some kind soul please explain how I can find
> out whether my actual sound setup is likely to work at all?
> 
> Or would anyone know of a mixer program that would not need
> libraries that I will not have?
> 
> If it matters - my sound sources are DVD and TV...
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Sakari Aaltonen
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