From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (2080 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 02:43:22 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA08973 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:43:19 +1100 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex38.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.138]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA23064 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:43:18 +1100 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14Czci-0000BP-00; Mon, 01 Jan 2001 18:43:16 +1100 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:43:16 +1100 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Alsa 0.5.10 w/ Debian - was: Re: not working yet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi Terry: I think your alsa drivers are in fact working. However, the default state is for all channels to be muted. You were on the right track with amixer, though mic needs to be written MIC not mic. Amixer is annoyingly case sensitive like that. Type amixer and pipe it through more to see how your channels are set and how to spell the names in order to change them. You can alternatively edit /etc/asound.conf and type 'alsactl restore' to load your new settings, though you might want to use a mixer anyway to fine tune them. There is indeed an interactive mixer called alsamixer, though aumix should work if you have oss emulation (which you would want). I found that alsamixer would segfault when I tried to run it. Kirk Reiser solved my problem by suggesting I might have an old ncurses development library installed. If you get this problem, check to see that you have libncurses5-dev installed, then it should run just fine after recompilation of alsa-utils. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang ICQ number 43634701