> >>Thanks again, but I don't think I am making myself clear as to >> what it is that I want to do. >> >>I don't care about xine. Or alsa. Right now, I care about >> getting my soundcard to work again. That's kinda what I'm after. >> >>Say, you wouldn't happen to know how to do that, would you? >> >> > Well, it's hard to say without seeing what you've got. Look at > /etc/modules.conf and see what's there. Do an "lsmod" and see > what's installed as well. If you have a bunch of "snd-..." > modules then you're running ALSA - one of the modules there > should be snd-card-<name> where <name> is something akin to you > soundcard. If you just have <name> (a name akin to your > soundcard) then you've probably got OSS. > > Right. If you have modules installed we're probably going OK. > I'm guessing you are. Only guessing mind you :-) > > Now run "aumix -q". Does it work? That is, do you get a > message saying that the sound system is missing/doesn't work or > do you get something vaguely like this: > > vol 68, 68, P > pcm 84, 84 > speaker 0, 0 > line 0, 0, P > mic 0, 0, R > cd 0, 0, P > igain 0, 0 > line1 0, 0, P > phin 0, 0, P > video 0, 0, P > > What you actually get will depend on your sound card. Note, > however, that the "vol" and "pcm" channels are non-zero. I'm > still assuming you have a basically working sound system but you > can't hear anything. > > If your vol and pcm channels are non-zero then you should be able > to hear a wav file (just "play foo.wav" for a random wav file you > have lying around). I just experumented muting channels with > alsamixer and setting the volume in kmix and setting the volume > non-zero with kmix seemed to make things audible. > > > Now -- how far through this lot did you get? Thank you, John, for the response. The sound card shows as being there, everything looks right, as I think I mentioned in the first email today. It just won't make any noise :( Things were fine until the xine install, so I'm assuming something got hosed thereby. I'm going to re-install tomorrow morning, already copied all the important stuff off via a samba connection. I didn't know about the aumix -q command and argument. That is very handy information to have! Thanks again! Brad -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
