On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:56:28PM -0500, 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. well, first thing... do you know the front jacks are connected? they sometimes aren't. also check to see if the sound modules are inserted (lsmod | grep snd). I usually do sound early on and it generally seems to just work. I do a find / -name \*wav which finds some of the built in system sounds and then do an alsaplayer <results from find>. look in your mixer, maybe you have a seperate volume control for headphones? A
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