[linux-audio-user] New Kernel; No Sound. Linux-2.6.5 ALSA

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

You need to get the alsa-tools and perhaps alsa-utils packages from
alsa-project.org.

-Eric Rz.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:37:04PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	My thanks to a list member who wrote me off the list and told
> me about the aabuild and aadebug scripts on the alsa site.  I ran the
> aadebug script and found that the biggest problem seems to be that
> ALSA couldn't find my sound card after plug and play registered it.
> 
> 	Putting in the sound card driver as a built-in to the kernel
> rather than a module seems to have cured that problem and I may
> actually have it working.
> 
> 	Now, for the next part:  Since ALSA is part of the kernel, I
> need some command-line tools to take the place of aplayer and amixer
> which were in the old distribution.  As a computer user who is blind,
> I do not use X windows because there isn't a truly working interface
> to X that makes it talk to us yet.  It is in the works, but it has
> been there for about a decade although it really is getting a lot
> closer.
> 
> 	I presently have aumix on the system and it did adjust some of
> the controls on the sound card under the 2.4.19 kernel and the OSS
> modules, but I gather that it doesn't talk to /dev/mixer, etc.
> 
> 	The old ALSA utilities I had on here had Amixer and aplayer
> and dated back to December of 2001.  They don't even try to work with
> the present setup.
> 
> 	So, my question for now is, are there any command-line-based
> applications that replace aplayer, amixer and something I saw called
> alsamixer?
> 
> 	This is all a bit confusing since there is a lot of software
> that is based on the old ALSA which doesn't seem to do anything at all
> in the new setup.
> 
> 	Thanks to all.
> 
> Martin McCormick