James W. Frock, Ph.D. wrote: > No doubt I am anxious about getting this Audigy sound card working. I have > tried all of the things I have found on the net including the ALSA site. > The Debian etch software makes it sound so easy. I haven't used that distro, but usually it *is* easy. Do you have old configuration files laying around from another card? How are you determining that it doesn't work? Have you tried aplay -vv some.wav ? Are you using a sound server? That can interfere with sound as well. Have you typed alsamixer in a console or terminal and adjusted the volumes higher? By default, volumes are at zero to prevent speaker blowout. > > Since the kernel didn't see the onboard sound card I disabled the onboard > sound card. I don't even know what brand or type the onboard sound card is. This is a bad sign. It should have been seen. It sounds like something is wrong with the probing. > After reading the ALSA site I decided to go out and purchase the Audigy > since the Penguin said it was a good choice. > > It is most likely a configuration issue however what needs to be configured > and how should it be configured. The ALSA process and documentation In open source, the documentation is (almost) always minimal and out of date. The code is the real documentation. Writing documentation is not fun like writing code is, so it tends to get shunted to the indefinite future. Unfortunately. > instructions can be somewhat difficult to understand and employ as they were Usually, the sound card is recognized and configured without any intervention at all. A standard card like the Audigy should just work. > written to help users of various distributions of Linux and not just Debian > etch users. Sometimes I think a flow chart would be helpful to help follow > and learn the various steps and files used to make all of this work. > > The install file is Gnome's Synaptic with ALSA 1.0-13 version which came > with the recent etch set. I think I have all of the necessary packages > installed to make this work. This is an older version of alsa. On the home page at http://www.alsa-project.org/ there is a link to the latest version of alsa, 1.0.17. You should install at least the drivers and library from this latest version if that is possible (you know how to compile a tar archive). The instructions are quite simple (in the README), so you should be able to do this even if you only have minimal experience. > > I posted an email yesterday with the specs of the kernel and various other > parameters one might need to ascertain what the problem might be. Could you run a script which provides more information about your sound setup and post the link back here? The script is found at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh You could enable the onboard sound card before you do this so it can be examined also. > > If someone could please help I would be most appreciative. Thank you. > > Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
