Re: [linux-audio-user] Mixers (maybe)

Mark> OK - just a second. I'm a bit confused. Even though all the stuff Mark> above it working, do you have sound? Yes. I haven't tried the recording yet, but Timidity plays MIDI files fine. Mark> Also, are you running Debian or Knoppix? (Not that it matters) Knoppix is a variety of Debian. What happened was that the disk my root partition was on got flaky, so I put in a new disk and booted from the Knoppix disk, and ran knoppix-installer. Then I put in the Sid lines in the apt sources.list file and ran apt-get update. I had done this once before at work, and it was quite good at producing a working system from nothing really fast. It is unfortunately less good at producing a system just like the Debian system you had running and doing a lot of complicated things before. But I don't know what is good at doing that. Mark> And as for pysol, I think it's using OSS emulation. Have you enabled Mark> that? It may require a modprobe. snd_pcm_oss possibly? snd_mixer_oss? Mark> snd_oss? Not sure... I have the oss emulation working (on 2.6), but more googling reveals that pysol sound doesn't work yet on 2.6. The error is different from the one I get, but it doesn't look like that problem is worth spending time on. And the pydance problem is probably a pydance packaging bug. I have written the pydance list. Thanks to everyone who helped. I think I now have a kosher 2.6 alsa system. Sometime I should figure out either how to get a stock debian kernel to run on my ext3 partition or how to compile a custom kernel with ext3 compiled in. But now that I have sound basically working, I think those problems can wait. -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139