Mark Knecht writes: >I believe that all of these still exist, but you may just have out of >date versions. There are a number of packages to Alsa now: > >alsa-drivers >alsa-oss >alsa-lib >alsa-tools (you probably need this) Got them. All x-based. >alsa-utils (you probably need this too) Got them and not totally sure what they do yet.:-) >alsa-jack >alsa-firmware > >Good luck, Thank you. The hardware is working, I think. I now have audio that is fed in to the line in jack being passed through to the output. I found an ancient program called setmixer going back to 1994 in the Debian treasure trove of packages that one can download. Interestingly enough, that ancient program along with aumix both do one and only one thing to the sound card. By telling either mixer to adjust the line volume, the pass-through or monitor level adjusts perfectly in that setting line to 100 is quite loud while setting it close to 0 is almost all the way down. Both aumix and setmixer return sensable values for all the other controls such as mic and PCM levels, but no other control has any effect at all. If I cat /dev/dsp in to a file, I see the familiar pattern of silence which is mostly 0x80 with the occasional 0x7f. I did download a new version of alsaplayer and it probably will work if I ever get audio out of the card. .wav files seem to silently play for the right amount of time. On the alsa site, I found several mixers and every darn one of them requires a GUI. Unless there is one of them that will work from the command line as well as from X, I haven't found anything that I can use. The other possibility is to find some documentation describing the ioctl interface to /dev/mixer and start banging out a C program that talks to the correct registers, sort of a modern version of setmixer that works. As one who has experimented with assembly language on several processors, this has all the earmarks of a mapping problem. There is probably a bit in some register that needs to be on or off, but the old mixer control program is talking to the wrong register or the bit is not even something this program knows about and it doesn't get set. For now, it's back to 2.4.19 if I want to hear any digital audio. I really do appreciate all the help so far. This is nobody's fault or anything like that. It is a case of rather complex technology that is trying to work over a very wide range of hardware. It's a miracle it works at all when you think of what all is happening. On this computer, there is still one burned out bulb in the string so to speak. Martin
