On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 21:55, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:32, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:24, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > What is the secret of getting sound in the speakers using alsa? > > > > > > I have installed Fedora Core 1 after having had sound with Red Hat 9 > > > without the need to do anything. I understand that the Fedora project > > > has decided not to have alsa with their linux, and so I decided to > > > install it myself. > > > > > > I've downloaded and installed alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils > > > compiled the modules and inserted them into the kernel. I have > > > unmuted the mixer channels and added a few lines to > > > /etc/modules.conf: > > > > > > # ALSA portion > > > alias char-major-115 snd > > ^^^ that should be 116, but I don't think that's the > > problem. If aplay doesn't give an error and terminates after the > > expected time playing a .wav file I suspect wrong alsamixer settings. > > Oops, have now changed it to 116 which made no difference. I am not sure I > understand what you mean by "alsamixer settings". I have unmuted the channels hiting > "m" per channel. What else should I do for the settings? > > > > alias snd-card-0 snd-cs46xx > > > # module options should go here > > > > > > # OSS/Free portion > > > alias char-major-14 soundcore > > > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > > > > > > # card #1 > > > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > > > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > > > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss > > > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss > > > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss > > > > > > Still no sound comes out of my speakers except when I load my OS/2 > > > system. What am I missing? > > > > > > Help, please. And please understand that I know nothing about the > > > technicalities of sound systems.
Oh, silly me. I can now see where I failed. Yes, I did unmute the channels, but the volume remained on zero. Moving it up to 100 gave me full control on the speaker. Alas, so close to the solution without seeing it. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
