On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:40 PM, David Santamauro <david.santamauro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been lurking around a few weeks now as I get my feet wet in the world > of linux audio. I find it very difficult to get off the ground, to be > honest. I dusted off an older PC that I had used for audio in the MS Windows > environment and carved out a partition for fedora 11 with the real-time > kernel from PlanetCCRMA. OS install went off without a hitch as did > installing the new kernel. That's just about where "easy" stopped. > > I have a list of things I'd like to ask about but I think I'll just start > off simple. Silly me thought I could plug speakers into the output of the > 2496 and I'd be able to hear (and eventually *make*) glorious music -- no > such luck. So, onto my first issue: > > I check what the system sees > $ cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [au8810 ]: au8810 - Aureal Vortex au8810 > Aureal Vortex au8810 at 0xfea80000 irq 21 > 1 [M2496 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96 > M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xdf80, irq 22 > > ... so far so good > > Now, I just want to use the sound preferences dialog and make sure the > system is using the 2496 as main output. Problem is, although both the 8810 > and 2496 are present in the "Capture" tab, only the 8810 is available from > the "Playback" tab. > I am unfamilliar with the sound preferences dialog you are using, no specific help there. In the settings dialog of qjackctl, do the 'missing' playback ports show up in the drop-down list where you choose 'Output device'? > Actually _hearing_ the music aside, I decided to try my luck with JACK. > Funny enough, I was able to get a rudimentary JACK infrastructure passing > xmms audio over to ardour2 (was a small tutorial I found) ... still, no > sound from the speakers though ;-) > > Could anyone here possibly help or point me to a resource that can? > > Thanks in advance, > > David > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
