Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joris Huizer wrote: >> Tom Allison wrote: >> >>> How to I check if ALSA is actually working on my system? >>> >>> I have sound, but things like mplayer say that alsa can't be found. >>> xine works fine, but I can't find anything in the xine menus to >>> tell me what it's using for sound. >>> >>> Eventually I want to set up a TV card, but I need to go back and >>> check off the basics. It looks like a lot of things did not get >>> set up the way I had expected. >>> >>> I made an assumption that kernel 2.6 provided alsa without >>> additional configuration other than loading the hardware drivers.
I had to compile each time the Kernel for my Soundblaster Live 5.1 card >>> >>> >> Try alsaplayer >> > > liboss_out failed to load. > > Where is this? > > I couldn't find it in the /lib/modules directory. Maybe you _need_ to compile a new kernel after all? With the 2.6.x kernel it's not complicated anymore. most likely you also need to install alsa-base ( some tools like alsamixer and to store the settings alsactl are also very helpfull.) Other then the above error there is nothing else? LinuxUser aka Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org The box said Windows, NT or better, so I installed Linux :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
