I'm back (unfortunately, but *very* glad there is a forum on this topic, I think the issue will not just go away, my guess is that more folk who use audio media (etc.) in life projects will be turning to Linux based outlooks). Mark (or anyone who may be able to help out), The short of it is, I tried basically everything you suggested... plus de-installing the EchoMixer & associated products (controllers for other devices which I do not have, it comes bundled) by means of the Add/Remove menu item & then re-installing it (& other components) via the terminal/shell. I basically cannot get the EchoMixer to open up (or any other of the "associated" controllers, either). This, I suppose, could be either symptom or cause (conflicts?), or even both? Sure would appreciate some advice on trouble shooting here. Thanks much, Henry 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
