What is this olsa stuff anyway? ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Hallenbeck <chuckh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Speakup Distribution List <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 4:52 AM Subject: progress report - alsa+sblive > Thanks to Jacob, Bill, Vic and others for your help... I have persisted > with the alsa drivers and have the card working now, but I am not that > happy with it and may try some of the other drivers you have > suggested. While it works, it seems totally unresponsive to most of the > options in 'amixer' although the program seems to accept my commands - no > errors shown, and 'alsactl' seems to store and restore them okay. BTW - > Bill - I was unable to use the asound.conf you sent because it specified a > difference chip for the mixer. I created a new asound.conf with alsactl > and then adjusted its settings for all those features I recognized. I left > 'video' 'phone' and 'PC speaker' alone. But I get just barely audible > sound despite all the gain settings - even setting 'Master' to 0 fails to > mute the card, and setting it to max does not increase it. > > I will play a little more before abandoning aLSA WITH THIS CARD. oH WELL - > BETTER THAN NOTHING, ALTHOUGH MY OLD SYSTEM SURE WAS A WINNER IN > COMPARISON! > > cHUCK. > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > Back when I was a boy it was 40 miles toeverywhere, > uphill both ways, and it was always snowing! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
