Just fiddled around with alsamixer until the sound stopped sounding flat. I'm sure the individual settings (Sigmatel and such) are higly dependent on the card being used. That I don't really remember exactly and I'm not at my computer. A lot of the problem appeared to be the complexity introduced by a surround-sound sound card (even though I don't have the speakers.)
The init scripts that Peter refered me to just save the settings you have I believe. Seems to me that by default it should not be mute, and not be all messed up in general... hopefully this will get ironed out. I'm sure it will when ALSA goes more main stream, which should happen in a few months. A neat program is amixer, which is basically a command line interface to alsamixer. Using KDE's 3.2 key mapper program I was actually able to put that silly Windows Key to use to bind keys to increase/decrease and mute sound. And just for kicks, here is a link I found from osnews.com. It's a Java Operating System: http://jnode.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html I think there is something wrong about "starting org.jnode.driver.ide", though it seems like I've heard of java-based cellphones... I'm not sure how fundamental Java is to their OS though. >From PuTTY in California, Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Benjamin Story wrote: > Ian, > > Can you give us some tips on what you did to ALSA? I'm fighting that > right now with my MythTV box. > > Ben > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:07:14AM -0600, Ian Monroe wrote: > > Just downloaded. As was pointed out on Slashdot, 2.6 kernel and Lord of > > the Rings on the same day (yes, its good and you should see it). And for > > us, the end of the semester. What could make the day better. Guess it > > would have to be World Peace or something. > > > > I've been using 2.6-test11 primarily for the last couple of weeks. For > > the desktop user I think the most noticeable change are the new sound > > drivers, ALSA. The old OSS still exists, as well as an OSS compatibility > > layer for ALSA. My experience with ALSA is that it gives me a little too > > much power. In my experience with my Sound Blaster Live! emu10k1 card, > > by default, no sound was coming out. I opened up alsamixer and fixed > > that. But it sounded kind of flat and voices were quiet in comparison to > > other sounds. I fiddled around with the literally dozens of options now > > in alsamixer and now it works fine. I hope now with ALSA in widespread > > use there will be some develop of a just-make-it-sound-good auto config > > thing. The commercial distros will probably write scripts to setup it up > > right. > > > > Though I haven't done blind test trials, I think ALSA sounds better. > > More full. But its hard to say. > > > > I'm currently having trouble with test11 and CDs. For some reason, I > > have to load the ide-scsi module for the DVD and CD-R to work at all > > even though I specifically configured the kernel with not having to do > > that in mind (the ide-scsi module being in bad-taste according to Linus.) > > > > Untarring... > > > > Ian > > > > Benjamin Story wrote: > > > > >Linus released the first official 2.6.0 kernel today. Go to the usual > > >places and download your copy today. > > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >with Subject: unsubscribe > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with Subject: unsubscribe > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
