Re: Tool to configure sound

[Bruno Costacurta <brucosta@pt.lu>]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 18:56, Chris Lale wrote:
> 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.

Hi,

I followed instructions at the here previous indicated URL and run 'alsaconf' 
which indeed completed and corrected the configuration of my sound 
card.  
Now everything is fine. All tests are OK.
Many thanks for help.

Bye,
Bruno