Hi Mark, Thanks so much for the clear info/directions... I'll hop to it (I may be back)! In appreciation. Henry p.s., is it possible that Kubuntu has some different commands than Ubuntu... (& I'm beginning to think that Kubuntu may be what I am aiming at... but that's another story I need to look into). On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 05:37 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2008 03:53:07 Henry W. Peters wrote: > > OK, since I received no reply for some time now, would someone please > > tell me if there is no interest for the below stated problem on this > > list, is there another support group list that I may go to regarding > > Ubuntu 8.04/Linux (Debian) & my Mia MIDI sound card? > > The best I can determine from some quick googling is that your > card is supported and the alsa driver is called snd-mia so > first thing is to see if it's loaded... yes, "shell" means > that b&w terminal thing so open it up and type "sudo -i" to > become the root (administrator) user, then try... > > lsmod | grep ^snd | sort > > and that will provide a list of all loaded alsa modules and > snd-mia should be on of them, if not then try... > > modprobe snd-mia > > My lappie is running Kubuntu 8.04 and it has this module... > > find /lib/modules | grep mia > > and the result is... > > /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/sound/pci/echoaudio/snd-mia.ko > > and repeat the above. Next step is to make sure the mixer is > onboard but it sounds like you have already done this step... > > apt-get update > apt-get install alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils > > which contains the echomixer program. The simple "aplay" > program that comes in the alsa-utils package is useful for > testing, so... > > aplay -l > > will show a list of usable devices. If you can lay your hands > on a 16bit/48khtz wav file then it's a good way to test things. > If your mia is the second card (card 1) then something like > this may push the wav file out through the mia card... > > aplay -D hw:1 some.wav > > and... > > aplay -h > > will provide some guide as to the arguments for aplay. Fiddle > with the echomixer program and aplay for a while and hopefully > you will get some sound happening. Good luck. > > BTW if you are new to using a shell you can swipe the command > line examples above with your mouse pointer, while the left > button is down (which highlights the area) and then simply > middle mouse button paste the results at the shell prompt. > > --markc > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
