[linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie

[Jan "Evil Twin" Depner]

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



On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 12:33, Sakari Aaltonen wrote:
> > try "alsamixer" which should be part of alsa-utils. Or you can try
> > "amixer", more powerfull but a bit more complicated.
> >  
> > drh at niptron.com
> 
> Oh - my mistake was to download only the alsa-driver package. 
> I didn't realize alsa-lib and alsa-utils, too, were needed.
> 
> OK, I downloaded and installed them. But...
> 
> First, I tried DVD and TV. Well, it seems 'xine' needs an
> audio plugin for alsa. It now only has plugins called 'oss'
> and 'esd.' No sound.
> 
> Then I tried 'alsamixer'. It does show the correct title
>    VIA 8233A/C
>    Avance Logic ALC650 rev 0
> and a collection of bars. The meaning of many of them is unclear
> to me, but I tried to up the volumes on most. Unfortunately, when
> I tried to play a MIDI file with 'aplay', no sound resulted. I
> also downloaded and tried the old 'playmidi', but it doesn't
> find '/dev/sequencer'.
> 
> 
> Sakari Aaltonen
> 
>