Re: Tool to configure sound

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:52:59AM +1100, Charlie wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Lyons shared this with us all:
[...]
> >--} Lucky man!  I wish it would work for my Acer laptop!  Still, I suppose
> >--} after all these years I should know better than to expect sound on a
> >--} laptop. I see I have 3 modules loaded that you don't have, maybe it's
> >--} something to do with them.
> >--}
> >--} snd_hda_intel          17140  0
> >--} snd_hda_codec         126496  1 snd_hda_intel
> >--} snd_pcm_oss            35968  0
> >--} snd_mixer_oss          15872  1 snd_pcm_oss
> >--} snd_pcm                74532  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> >--} snd_timer              20836  1 snd_pcm
> >--} snd                    48100  6
> >--} snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> >--} soundcore               9216  1 snd
> >--} snd_page_alloc          9512  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> >--}
> >--} Still, it's all way over my head...
> 
> I have two Acer laptops and both have sound configured and working using 
> alsaconf, have you tried it?

A hundred times.  It says ALSA is ready to use, and wishes me a lot of
fun.   As long as it's happy...  
In fact the link given earlier in the thread to
    http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux
says:
    Alsaconf is so buggy that it is best not to use it at the moment
    (according to [bug no 432678]).

    You now have to use udevtrigger instead of alsaconf.

But that did nothing useful either as far as I could tell.

Mine is an Acer Aspire 1640Z, FWIW.

-- 
richard