On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Phillip Pi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 10:08:14PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: >> >> It may be worth having a good look at alsamixer. My alsamixer for the audigy2 >> soundblaster is no good to you, and the card you have just seems to do >> analog, but it's worth rechecking that there arn't any switches that are >> muted. > > BINGO! I think I found it and I know what I missed. > > There are four VIA DXS (what the heck is this?) in mixers. I cranked the > most left VIA DXS and it worked!! Man, these labels aren't informative. > What exactly is VIA DXS??? > >From other posts, I believe that the mixer names are given by the hardware, not by the alsa people. Thus via dxs is some name which the manufacturer of you r card gave that particular control. Probably if you looked at the spec sheet for that sound chip it would explain what those were. I agree that the names are highly non-intuitive. for example on most cards, the input volume controls, like say the line in volume control, does not affect the volume of the signal delivered to the computer. It controls the volume that is delivered by the input to the output channel on the sound card. > >> Speaker-test is normally a good test, not only for individual speakers, but >> just to see if you have any sound at all. > > Yep, and I discovered this command. > > >> The guys that normally reply on this list are no doubt taking a break. If you >> still have problems, it might be worth reposting in a few days. > > Not anymore, but I hope they see the issue with VIA DXS labels. How > would I know these did something and what they did. :) As I said, I think by reading the spec sheet for the sound card chip. > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
