On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:45, Maxim K. wrote:
> i don't exactly follow this thread.
> read next if this is a thread "i can't hear anything when everything seems
> OK"
You are right, this is the case.

>
> the itchy thing with alsa for beginners is that for speaker safety reasons
> the modules init all the volumes to mutes.
> your modlist was fine,
> so even if you have everything installed OK,
> you won't hear anything unless you play with the mixer
> [either gtk or the console] and unmute the channels.
> maybe your mandrake also has another version of mixer.
> but, the surest way is via console:
> run alsamixer, and then press 'M' on the channels where you see the MM
> and of course set the volume to your desired setting.
>
> if you want to unmute the channels on boot, you will have to write
> script or to get an alsasound script.

I tried running alsamixer and it gave the following error:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

So it seems that something is not Ok after all...

-- 
Ori Idan
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