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Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?



On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:30:43PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >  
> 
> I originally had a problem getting my PCI sound card to work. 
> Eventually, I found out that the system had auto-detected sound 
> integrated into the motherboard. The solution is to choose the correct 
> card from within Alsaconf. Here is a record of what worked for me (in Etch):

Success!

After I installed some more alsa stuff (since there are no dependancies
between the alsa packages, I had to poke around), it works.

Thanks,

Doug.

 



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