On 03/29/2011 02:39 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > On 03/29/2011 04:53 PM, Doug wrote: >> On 03/29/2011 01:26 AM, Doug wrote: >> >> Here I am again: Now the top sliders control the volume on the bottom >> port. I don't know shat I did. I still can't get any sound out of the >> speaker connected to the top port, but I can get the bonging noise on >> the headphones of the second port. Actually, with all this >> confusion, I really don't know which port is connected to what, since >> now the top port seems to be connected to the headphones, >> >> Do you know if anyone using PCLOS has ever gotten this thing to work? >> >> --doug >> >> > > You might want to try with alsamixer > > It may be that your settings have become confused. > > You can drop an .asoundrc file into your home folder for testing. > > You may also get somewhere with "/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf" > > > Cheers. > All right. I managed to get two sound sources running at the same time (thru one card) and couldn't stop the one, so I shut the machine down (gracefully) and when I rebooted and loaded a radio station, it came out the MOBO device into the speakers. I looked up /usr/bin/alsamixer.gui and it seems to only know the MOBO device, and only the master has any effect on the volume. The panel volume control works again. I conclude that PA is not working at all right now. There is no file pulse-default.conf anywhere on the machine. All the alsa files in /usr/bin as one might expect, altho alsamixer.gui puts a drawing out with a zillion i/o keys. There is no .asound* on the machine. Unfortunately, I'm a retired hardware engineer, and I'm not all that good with software. I sort of know how to find things on the machine, and I know some _very basic_ bash programming, and I can edit files if I know what to put in them. I was always told by the software guys not to do it in hardware if it could be done in software, but if Radio Shack still had the parts, I would be building a switch about now. There's DigiKey, of course. . . . It's almost 4AM here. I give up for the night. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley
