ALSA Questions
First, It works fine.
Second, it wasn't easy to set up. I followed the instructions in
kernel-source-2.6.3/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt but
wavp sample.wav resulted in a message that
initialization of DSP failed. Eventually I ran apt-cache search alsa
and from the long list selected and installed alsa-utils. This asked me
to select a sound card. I had built the kernel with emu10k1 as a
module and after I had selected this from the utils options and rebooted
sound worked.
Question: Is there a more complete discussion of ALSA setup?
Question: Is alsadriver now built in? alsa-utils recommended
alsadriver but apt-get install alsadriver lists modules for 2.4.16.
Finally, with kernel-2.4.22 I was using setmixer, workbone and wavp so I
worked at getting these working with kernel-2.6.3. There are references
to alsamixer but the apt-cache search turned up only alsamixergui which
apt-cache show alsamixergui explains that this is just an overlay to
alsamixer.
Question: What package contains alsamixer? Is there any reason to
switch since setmixer works fine?
Just curious
Tom
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