Re: Sound problems (PCI128)
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:03:10PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> That sound thing in Linux seems to be a real mess... :(
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> I downloaded kernel 2.2.14 to get support for PCI128. I don't know if it is 1370 or 1371, but I took a chance on 1370. Ányway, the wave is working but the midi isn't (I mean the midi port, I have an external synth module). So I wen't to irc.debian.org, and there someone told me to try alsa. However, I took the potato version since I thought that would work better with a 2.2 kernel.
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> That whole stuff turned out to be packages needing other packages, so I thought it was best to stop and deinstall all the alsa stuff again.
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> However. The wave is working. And so is the mixer, but the settings are low every time I boot the computer. According to the sound HOWTO a call to setmixer at boot time would solve the problem, but I have no such file. I have Xmixer, but as far as I know it can't set stuff from the console prompt.
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> (cat /dev/sndstat says "Operation not supported by device" if that matters.)
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> ...Well, I guess I could just add another question, which is probably simpler to answer. User root has a prompt which could look like "Dwc:/usr/share#". But user diwic has only a $ (xterm says "bash $"), and a path would be very nice to have there too.
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> / David
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Try "lspci -v -v".
It will tell you, which card you own.
Look at the section name with "multimedia".
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