I apoligise to all who were on the reflecter, I was trying the echo server too, but well lets just say i should of taken a breake after going in circles for a day. I did try to chat too, but guess no one was receiving my chats. thanks for the good info below. Hopefully I can get this to go. On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:36:20 -0500, Gene Collins wrote: > >Hi Jim. If what we heard on the reflecter over the weekend is a sample >then your sound card will probably not work. Larry Bagget has been >trying to get his Maestro card up and running for quite a while and >hasn't had much success. > >By the way, you should use the echo server, not the reflecter to test >your card. You were generating pure white noise over the weekend, and >not reading or not receiving chats when people were asking you to stop. >nthis is ot very polite behavior. The address for the echo server is >lwl.braille.uwo.ca. The only difference is that you don't put the :4074 >on the end of the address. The echo server will allow you to send about >10 seconds of audio to it, and then send the same audio back to you. >It's a great way to find out whether your sound card is working, and >whether you need to adjust your volume controls or not. > >The ALSA drivers can be found at http://www.alsa-project.org/. Be very >sure to read the INSTALL file that comes with the drivers, and >particularly pay attention to the section for your sound card. There >are a couple of complete examples of additions you'll need to make to >your /etc/modules.conf file for most distributions, or your >/etc/modutils/aliases file for Debian. Using your favorite editor, you >can copy the configuration examples into a file, and then edit it to >meet your needs. When you have your configuration file the way you want >it, save it, and paste it onto the bottom of your /etc/modules.conf >file, or your /etc/modutils/aliases file. If your running Debian, >you'll have to run update-modules after editing your aliases file. > >Finally, you'll need three files from the alsa-projects site. >Alsa-driver-0.xx.xx, alsa-lib-0.xx.xx and alsa-utils-0.xx.xx. All of >the files have a tar.gz or tar.bz2 suffix. The xx stands for the >version number of the alsa drivers, and you should get driver, library >and utility files with the same version number. You'll need to install >the drivers, then the libraries, and finally the utilities in that >order. The libraries look to see if the drivers are installed, and the >utilities depend on the libraries, so you'll have to compile and install >things exactly in this order. > >As I said, I think your sound card may be broken from what we heard on >the reflecter over the weekend, but using the Alsa drivers may fix the >problem. It's certainly worth a try. > >Gene Collins > >>will the alsa drivers work with my amaestro iie sound card? >>Where can I find and install these drivers from? >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Speakup mailing list >>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
