hi there. have you tryed adding thqat alsactl restore command to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local? of course this depends on the distro you run. hth -- Shaun If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -- Tom Robbins EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I got alsa working. > There were two things wrong. > first of all, in one place i had a snd where there should have been a sound in > my /etc/modutils/alsa. > Second 9and this may help the person trying to get it to work with trplayer, > etc.) I had left one setting muted that needed to be unmuted, just by missing > it. you have to go through and check every > single channel for whether or not it is muted. In aumix, pressing 'm" toggles > everything; in alsamixer, it toggles only the channel/device you are on. > I've still got some fuzziness, so one of the zillion settings or more isn't > quite right yet. Wish they'd call all of the settings by plain english names > and/or explain what all of them mean. > Now I'm trying to figure out how to get my settings to be there when I reboot. I > have to type "alsactl restore" to get them back every time I boot. > Still not convinced I like the sound better than with oss; too soon to tell > until I fine tune. Hope it actually succeeds with the reflector, since that's > why I'm doing it. will practice on the echo server before I come in and blast > anybody out again. > Of course, if I'm deaf after experimenting, you'll be able to hear me, but i > won't be able to hear you! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >