Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-26 Thread Michael
On Saturday 25 January 2025 15:28:49 Greenwich Mean Time Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Dale. [snip ...] > You're absolutely right. I was missing CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO, a setting > that builds in the USB sound driver. I'm not sure how I worked that out, > but probably somewhere on my Internet sea

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Karl. On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 09:00:12 +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alan Mackenzie: > ... > > Then I attempt to use alsamixer to unmute the speakers and, hopefully get > > some sound out of them. This is where my problems start. > > alsamixer displays just one object, labelled S/PDIF

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Dale. > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 14:53:30 -0600, Dale wrote: >> Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> Hello, Gentoo. >>> I've finally got around to buying a pair of new loadspeakers for my new >>> (as of 2024-08) PC. The experience has not been relaxed and obvious. >>> I have c

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Dale. On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 14:53:30 -0600, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've finally got around to buying a pair of new loadspeakers for my new > > (as of 2024-08) PC. The experience has not been relaxed and obvious. > > I have connected the speakers up p

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Michael
On Saturday 25 January 2025 08:00:12 Greenwich Mean Time k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alan Mackenzie: > ... > > > Then I attempt to use alsamixer to unmute the speakers and, hopefully get > > some sound out of them. This is where my problems start. > > > > alsamixer displays just one object, label

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread karl
Alan Mackenzie: ... > Then I attempt to use alsamixer to unmute the speakers and, hopefully get > some sound out of them. This is where my problems start. > > alsamixer displays just one object, labelled S/PDIF in the middle of the > screen. I don't have an S/PDIF connection, just an ordinary au

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-24 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've finally got around to buying a pair of new loadspeakers for my new > (as of 2024-08) PC. The experience has not been relaxed and obvious. > > I have connected the speakers up physically. I have made the necessary > settings in the kernel configurati