Re: Tool to configure sound

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all.
> Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing some 
> setup.
> Drivers looks correctly installed as 'lsmod' shows following drivers :
> ..
> snd_hda_intel          17332  3
> snd_hda_codec         137856  1 snd_hda_intel
> snd_pcm_oss            38368  0
> snd_mixer_oss          15200  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                68676  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              20996  2 snd_pcm
> ..
> 
> Is there tool (ie. like system-config-sound) to setup and check sound setup ?
> Thanks for any help.
> 

Check that levels are set in alsamixer or alsamixergui. Check that you are
configuring the sound card you have attached the speakers to (some motherboards
have built-in sound too). The name of the sound card appears at the top of the
mixer. Check sound works by running speaker-test.

	$ speaker-test

More details on the NewbieDOC wiki [1].

[1] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux

-- 
Chris.