Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie

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