Gentoo has an excellent step by step howto to setting up your ALSA based
sound system, at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml. If you've not
checked this out yet, i suggest you do.

I used it and had no issues, and i'm using a laptop!

cheers

Essien

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From: Gwendolyn van der Linden
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Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:28 PM
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Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] setting sound volume


> - my sound volume is very low when I try to listen some
> music by xmms,
>   have you idea in how can fix that?

What are you using? Alsa?  If so, run alsamixer (from alsa-utils), and
check the levels.

> - According to you, is there any advantage to use alsa versus oss?
>   Could you list what should I emerge to have alsa woking?
> I mean libs, plugins, etc?

Alsa is the wave of the future. OSS is deprecated.

Gwen.


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