Re: Sound issues

Well, assuming you are running alsa modules to run your hardware, then
you can use alsaconf (found in the alsa-utils package) to configure
the sound levels of your sound card. If you are not using alsa modules
you can just get any other mixer (KDE should have one) and fiddle
around with the settings in there.

If this does not help then tell us what lsmod gives out because
somtimes the OSS drivers get loaded along with the alsa drivers and
then the sound doesnt work.

HTH

Oli

Þann 2006-06-12, 19:23:53 (+0100) skrifaði Alan Chandler:
I few weeks ago, I re-installed debian from scratch (blank partitions apart
from my home directories).

One of the things I did was let debian totally find all my hardware. I have
an SBLive, and it has installed the snd_emu10k1 (and related) modules
automatically.

However, I get no sound at all. I tried running from console mode (ie kdm was
shutdown) as root

music123 file.mp3

that I have, and no sound came out at all.

The "other" operating system that I have installed for games has no problem
with sound - so clearly all hardware, from sound card to speakers, is
working.

Looking at a linux sound howto says I should have /dev/audio - but udev (or
whatever does it in debian) has not set that up. However it has set up a
directory /dev/snd with a number of files in it.

Is that the problem? What steps can I take to help diagnose my problem
further?


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