Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:24:30AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:07:17AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:30:43PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
> > > Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > > >[...]
> > > >Yesterday I downloaded xorg. Today I downloaded some apps (I'm on very
> > > >slow dialup at 1.5-2.5 KB/s) and alsa. Tomorrow I'll get something that
> > > >will make a sound. I ran alsaconf which is supposed to get things set
> > > >up and raise default (0) mixer levels. I then played speaker-test and
> > > >got nothing out of the headphone jack on the front of the computer. I
> > > >don't have speakers. Once I get everything I need downloaded then I'll
> > > >poke around a bit. Right now I'd just like to listen to a CD. Later,
> > > >I'd like to listen to radio shows I missed on cbc.ca.
> > > >
> > > >[...]
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I originally had a problem getting my PCI sound card to work.
> > > Eventually, I found out that the system had auto-detected sound
> > > integrated into the motherboard. The solution is to choose the correct
> > > card from within Alsaconf. Here is a record of what worked for me (in Etch):
> >
> > Success!
> >
> > After I installed some more alsa stuff (since there are no dependancies
> > between the alsa packages, I had to poke around), it works.
>
> so which one did the trick?
>
I don't know which __one__, but I have:
alsa-base
alsa-utils
alsaplayer-common, which brings in
alsaplayer-alsa
alsaplayer-gtk
alsaplayer-text
It seems that the description of alsa-utils doesn't make it look like
its required to actually get alsa going.
Doug.
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