I will try your suggestions, but to answer your questions, I used an rpm which I found on the speakup site. I was helped to install it by the guy who lives in colorado and helps newbies install redhat should they need it. I'm sorry I don't remember his name. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 4:35 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: newby sound question OK, this is helpful. Did you say also that you installed ALSA somehow? Did you use the ALSA rpms to do that? I ask because the sndconfig script provided by Red Hat configures for OSS and not for ALSA. Still, I would do the following: Try playing a sound. Do: locate .wav which will find whatever wav files are on your hard disk. Select one and do: play [filename] If you hear sound, you know that either OSS or ALSA are working. If you hear nothing, or if it's too loud, or not loud enough, do: aumix -q |more 2>&1 This will show current sound configuration parameters like volume. Examine the output. Is volume reasonably high? If not, adjust as needed. There are aumix commands to use. By the way, the "|more 2>&1" part keeps the report from scrolling off screen. You probably need it, but you may not need it depending on your display characteristics. Once you have the settings as you like them, save them. You will see the commands for saving to a file, and the command for loading from a file with: aumix -h |more 2>&1 Let's go that far before talking about ALSA specifics. On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, michael malver wrote: > sorry I did the redhat 7.3 talking install. > let me ask these questions differently. > 1. a sound module called sb is being loaded early on in my startup process. > Is this a generic module for the sound blaster, or unrelated. Would it make > sense for me to remove references to the 1888 sound chips from my > modules.conf and see if I ccan play an mp3, or a wav? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka > Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 3:36 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: RE: newby sound question > > > > Understood. The sample played from the sound configuration > program does come from your sound card. The Speakup beeps do not. > > What distribution are you running? You neglected to say, and > without that datum it's hard to advise you. > > > On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, michael malver wrote: > > > I may have mentioned this in my last message, but I can hear the sample > > sound played when you run the sndconfig program. It says "hello" > > THis says to me that at some level, sound is working. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca > > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka > > Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 11:53 AM > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: newby sound question > > > > > > The beeps from your speaker when you arrow around the screen > > using Speakup's screen review features are not from your sound > > card. > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
