You need to get the alsa-tools and perhaps alsa-utils packages from alsa-project.org. -Eric Rz. On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:37:04PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > My thanks to a list member who wrote me off the list and told > me about the aabuild and aadebug scripts on the alsa site. I ran the > aadebug script and found that the biggest problem seems to be that > ALSA couldn't find my sound card after plug and play registered it. > > Putting in the sound card driver as a built-in to the kernel > rather than a module seems to have cured that problem and I may > actually have it working. > > Now, for the next part: Since ALSA is part of the kernel, I > need some command-line tools to take the place of aplayer and amixer > which were in the old distribution. As a computer user who is blind, > I do not use X windows because there isn't a truly working interface > to X that makes it talk to us yet. It is in the works, but it has > been there for about a decade although it really is getting a lot > closer. > > I presently have aumix on the system and it did adjust some of > the controls on the sound card under the 2.4.19 kernel and the OSS > modules, but I gather that it doesn't talk to /dev/mixer, etc. > > The old ALSA utilities I had on here had Amixer and aplayer > and dated back to December of 2001. They don't even try to work with > the present setup. > > So, my question for now is, are there any command-line-based > applications that replace aplayer, amixer and something I saw called > alsamixer? > > This is all a bit confusing since there is a lot of software > that is based on the old ALSA which doesn't seem to do anything at all > in the new setup. > > Thanks to all. > > Martin McCormick
