[linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie

[Jan "Evil Twin" Depner]

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
> 
>