Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:07:17AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:30:43PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
Douglas Tutty wrote:
[...]
Yesterday I downloaded xorg. Today I downloaded some apps (I'm on very
slow dialup at 1.5-2.5 KB/s) and alsa. Tomorrow I'll get something that
will make a sound. I ran alsaconf which is supposed to get things set
up and raise default (0) mixer levels. I then played speaker-test and
got nothing out of the headphone jack on the front of the computer. I
don't have speakers. Once I get everything I need downloaded then I'll
poke around a bit. Right now I'd just like to listen to a CD. Later,
I'd like to listen to radio shows I missed on cbc.ca.

[...]



I originally had a problem getting my PCI sound card to work.
Eventually, I found out that the system had auto-detected sound
integrated into the motherboard. The solution is to choose the correct
card from within Alsaconf. Here is a record of what worked for me (in Etch):

Success!

After I installed some more alsa stuff (since there are no dependancies
between the alsa packages, I had to poke around), it works.

Just in case it happens to you, I find that sometimes my system gets into a
state where I have to run alsaconf every time I reboot. This can happen
weeks at a stretch. Other times I have months when I don't have to
do it.

-- hendrik


Thanks,

Doug.




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