Re: Tool to configure sound

[Charlie <ariestao@clearmail.com.au>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Lyons shared this with us all:

<snip>
>--} 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
>--}

That might be a more modern Acer lappy than my two. One being an Acer 1350 and 
the other an Acer 3610. Only have solar power, so have to rely on laptops and 
watch DVD's on them as well.

I didn't know about the bug. Maybe ignorance is bliss in this case. 

Also installed the alsamixergui package, thinking that it would work best with 
the sound card it discovered. It works well on both machines. I don't think 
anything other than that was done, and I use Debian testing on both, just in 
case that makes a difference?

So maybe its something particular to your Acer lappy?

Thanks for the heads up about udevtrigger. I might need that for a machine I 
install for someone else in the future.

Be well,
Charlie
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