On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:04:11PM +0200, Michael Bonert wrote: > This is in follow-up to an earlier post... > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/05/msg03451.html > > I'm sort of back to where I was before this started... but a bit more > confused. > > I figured-out the volume wasn't high enough to hear the music. (On that, I > don't know > what the wisdom is of defaulting the volume to zero is. It doesn't make a > whole lot of sense to me.) > > I played with 'alsamixer' and 'aumix'. Both seem to adjust the same things. > > Any case, it seems the lines in 'modprobe.conf' added by 'alsaconf' are > important: > # more /etc/modprobe.conf > install trident /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install trident && /usr/sbin/alsactl > restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > remove trident { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; > /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove trident > <snippage> > > Without those two lines the KDE sound system isn't happy. > > > Any case, I'm back to where I was yesterday-- in summary: > * Flash animation in IceWeasel -- kaputt. > * KDE sound -- works. > * xine (sound) -- works. > * XMMS -- works. >
you effectively have working sound then. I can't recall what is required to get flash sound working, but check the recent archives as there've been a couple threads on this. or repost with a proper subject to get the attention of those who know. > > That said... when I do: > ----- > # aplay "Bach - Conzona in D minor - BWV 588.mp3" > Playing raw data 'Bach - Conzona in D minor - BWV 588.mp3' : Unsigned 8 bit, > Rate 8000 Hz, Mono > ----- > I get a whole bunch of random noise. that's not a very nice way to talk about Bach! you get random noise because aplay (to my knowledge) doesn't support mp3. you need to play a .wav file or some other uncompressed format. try aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/* and you should get some good results. > > The same (random noise) results when I do: > # speaker-test speaker-test defaults to white noise. man speaker-test A
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