On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:22:47PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:56:28PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
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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?
I know they're connected since I assembled the computer. The sound is
integral to the Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe MB: (from the MB manual)
SoundMAX ADI AD1988B 8-channel CODEC
Supports Jack Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-Streaming, and
Jack-Retasking Technology.
Optical and Coaxial S/PDIF Out interfaces.