[Alsa-user] Forums v user lists

2006-05-22 Thread Terry North
Well - quite an outcry against forums. I eventually give up on lists because it's so difficult to go back and retrieve an old message. There's a constant stream of unrelated messages on different subjects. Once a message has faded out of sight, no one answers it. If you do not get an answer str

[Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-21 Thread Terry North
Is there any support for a forum as an alternative to the user list, which is such a clumsy, fragmented and disorganised format? To whom should one address a proposal for a forum? ---

[Alsa-user] Re: Alsa-user digest, Vol 1 #3127 - 12 msgs

2006-04-25 Thread Terry North
To Joel Roth, who wrote: Better if you can try your test with some simple program like aplay and a .wav file. Thank you for the reply. I made aplay the player and tried to play a .wav file. Nothing. There's no sound from anything - system notifications, kalarm, anything. I have an alsa driver

[Alsa-user] driver for nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 (snd-intel8x0) NOT working

2006-04-25 Thread Terry North
I have Mandriva 2006 and SuSE 10 installed (pro tem) on a new computer (AMD Athlon 64). I emailed Foxconn, the motherboard manufacturer, when a driver from nVidia failed to work in Mandriva and got back the following link: ftp://202.65.194.18/pc/ac97/alc650/realtek-linux-audiopack-3.5-6.tar.bz2 Th