Michael Mossey wrote: > Thanks again for your help. > > I can't get sound to come out of it, though. It works in Windows. Then I > boot in linux, aplay a sound file, run alsamixer and fiddle with the > controls waiting to hear sound. Haven't yet heard sound. Part of the > problem is that I don't understand the alsamixer controls--I don't know > how to route the "main sound channel" to the "analog outputs" nor how to > set its volume. > > I'm thinking of installing PlanetCCRMA which will probably have much > better mixers. > > Can someone tell me how to set alsamixer in a basic way, anyway? If I recall, by default everything in alsamixer is set to 0 (including levels), so you'll need to turn up at least the PCM out channels to hear sound. As a 2496 user also (on an HP Pavilion also), I don't even bother with alsamixer and use the envy24control tool instead, which lets you directly control the hardware the way you can in Windows (using the hardware monitor & digital mixer, as well as some of the routing features and other options you can set on the hardware). I do recommend, if you are relatively new to Linux and Linux audio, to install one of the pre-packaged multimedia distros like PlanetCCRMA or Agnula/Demudi -- they'll make your life a lot easier.
