On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:03:10PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > That sound thing in Linux seems to be a real mess... :( > > I downloaded kernel 2.2.14 to get support for PCI128. I don't know if it is > 1370 or 1371, but I took a chance on 1370. Ányway, the wave is working but > the midi isn't (I mean the midi port, I have an external synth module). So I > wen't to irc.debian.org, and there someone told me to try alsa. However, I > took the potato version since I thought that would work better with a 2.2 > kernel. > > That whole stuff turned out to be packages needing other packages, so I > thought it was best to stop and deinstall all the alsa stuff again. > > However. The wave is working. And so is the mixer, but the settings are low > every time I boot the computer. According to the sound HOWTO a call to > setmixer at boot time would solve the problem, but I have no such file. I > have Xmixer, but as far as I know it can't set stuff from the console prompt. > > (cat /dev/sndstat says "Operation not supported by device" if that matters.) > > ...Well, I guess I could just add another question, which is probably simpler > to answer. User root has a prompt which could look like "Dwc:/usr/share#". > But user diwic has only a $ (xterm says "bash $"), and a path would be very > nice to have there too. > > / David > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Try "lspci -v -v". It will tell you, which card you own. Look at the section name with "multimedia".
