On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:24:30AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:07:17AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:30:43PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: > > > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >Yesterday I downloaded xorg. Today I downloaded some apps (I'm on very > > > >slow dialup at 1.5-2.5 KB/s) and alsa. Tomorrow I'll get something that > > > >will make a sound. I ran alsaconf which is supposed to get things set > > > >up and raise default (0) mixer levels. I then played speaker-test and > > > >got nothing out of the headphone jack on the front of the computer. I > > > >don't have speakers. Once I get everything I need downloaded then I'll > > > >poke around a bit. Right now I'd just like to listen to a CD. Later, > > > >I'd like to listen to radio shows I missed on cbc.ca. > > > > > > > >[...] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I originally had a problem getting my PCI sound card to work. > > > Eventually, I found out that the system had auto-detected sound > > > integrated into the motherboard. The solution is to choose the correct > > > card from within Alsaconf. Here is a record of what worked for me (in > > > Etch): > > > > Success! > > > > After I installed some more alsa stuff (since there are no dependancies > > between the alsa packages, I had to poke around), it works. > > so which one did the trick? >
I don't know which __one__, but I have: alsa-base alsa-utils alsaplayer-common, which brings in alsaplayer-alsa alsaplayer-gtk alsaplayer-text It seems that the description of alsa-utils doesn't make it look like its required to actually get alsa going. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]