sound and linux

[Janina Sajka]

lsmod |grep snd

You should see your sound devices listed.

Next, run a mixer of some kind to check levels. As was previously
mentioned, levels are at 0 and muted by default in ALSA.

aumix -q

works well, imho, and is still available in FC3.

Brent Harding writes:
> 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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