[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Harry! Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions. I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings and erros that is. I have an XMMS player on my kde menu. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/2/06, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Harry! Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions. I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 201 I did install alsa-utils and ran alsaconf. /etc/modules.d/alsa looks like this: alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The VIA 8237 is an onboard sound chip. I have one myself. As such, it's controlled by the BIOS. Since you have previously not used sound on this machine, it's within the realm of possibility (imo) that you disabled the sound chip in the BIOS, which --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 March 2006 13:44, Harry Putnam wrote: Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Harry! Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions. I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings and erros that

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... I'm in need of sound on my unix box and kind of quickly. I never even configure sound or want it as a rule but now I need it to test some recording equipment on a second winxp computer with m-audio delta-66 installed. This