Re: Soundblaster Silent on Reboot
Hal Vaughan wrote:
>
> But there are no alsa commands and aptitude lists alsa-base and alsa-util as
> uninstalled. This has been working fine without it up until now. While, as
> I've said, it could be hardware, isn't it a bit of a puzzle that Alsa isn't
> installed? I used the Sarge Net-Install and did not use any extra package
> groups like "Desktop" and only installed a few packages later, like ssh,
> rsync, and a few other utils that help on a server. Since then I installed
> flac, crip, cdcd, and aumix and have been using it to rip CDs to flac. Alsa
> was not installed as a dependent package for any of them.
You've probably been using ALSA's OSS simulation all this time (the
snd_pcm_oss kernel module). I'd install the alsa-utils package (which
should pull in the alsa-base package too) and use alsamixer (or
alsamixergui if X is running) to set the volume levels. If the programs
you use support it, I try and get them to use their ALSA sound capabilities
as well.
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