sound and linux

[Brent Harding]

That's exactly what I get. Wouldn't the lack of detection give an error?
Audio is one of the things speakup mentions the system initializing when it
starts, so maybe it is set up right.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: sound and linux


> Hi,
> In fc-3 the sound is muted for some soundcards.
> With an everything install, you can use amixer to set things right.
> I had to turn headphones on to make my sound work.
> The symtom was that when one run play soundfile.wav, the command finnished
> without problems , but there was no sound like when the speakers was'nt
> plugged in.
> HTH
> Willem
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Brent Harding wrote:
>
> > I noticed than in my fc-3 I don't have a lot of modules in the
> > lib/modules/kernelversion directory. I get no sound from my sb-live
either.
> > I will have to try the same thing, I want to play with gnopernicus, hope
> > that pretty well works out of the box.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> > To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 8:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: sound and linux
> >
> >
> >> yes.  Download alsa-utils-1.0.8.tar.gz from
> >> http://alsa-project.org/alsa-utils/ and build it as root on your
system.
> >> Once finished you'll have alsaconf on your system it's a script.  Run
it
> >> and agree to having your /etc/modules.conf modified.  Don't worry if
you
> >> get can't find rc.alsasound.  Once done, aumix -v 100; aumix -p 100;
aumix
> >> -c 100; aumix -m 100; alsactl store; shutdown -r now.  When you reboot
try
> >> using aplay or play to play a sound file you find in /usr/share/sounds.
> >> If that works you're in business.  I don't have a bugzilla account so
> >> can't file a bug with the fedora project.  The fedora project has for
> >> x-window users system-configure-soundcard that is fine for x-window
users
> >> but doesn't do a thing for speakup and other screen reader users.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Michael Malver wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a sound blaster 64 which somehow didn't get recognized when
linux
> > was
> >>> installed.
> >>> I see reference to a program called sndconfig, but that seems to be
> > gone.
> >>> I am a bit intimidated with building a kernel partly because I'm very
> > new to
> >>> linux, and partly because I am unsure of the relation to kernel
sources
> > and
> >>> speakup and how it all ties together.
> >>> Is there anything I can do on my current system to get the sound
blaster
> >>> working/ It worked uner redhat 7, but when I upgraded to fc3, I whiped
> > out
> >>> the whole system.
> >>> thanks for any help.
> >>> If I must rebuild a kernel, what is the rpm command I would issue to
> > gret
> >>> the sources I need?
> >>>
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