Re: problems with sound

[dircha <dircha@dircha.com>]

Eric Cheney wrote:
> Hi People. I am trying to get a box up and running and am stuck with
> sound problems. I compiled a new 2.6.6 kernel kernel.org and the
> kernel seems OK. The sound card is a sound blaster live and I 
> compiled that into the kernel; along with the mixer and stuff. I'm 
> using ALSA. On boot, the kernel recognizes the sound card. However,
> when in GNOME I test the usage of the card with XMMS. I get an error
> message that pops up that says
>
>         o   You sound card is configured properly
>         o   You have the correct output plugin selected 
>         o   No other program is blocking the sound card
>
> OK, I checked /dev/dsp and it is there. Also, I'm doing this as root,
> so I don't think it is a permission problem. I've searched the net
> via google and the debian mail archive and either I'm missing points
> people have made, or .... I dunno. I'm stuck.

I've heard good things about alsaconf (in alsa-utils), although I've 
never used it myself. It will attempt to automatically generate a 
configuration for your card.

You'll need to execute it as root.

dircha