On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 18:24, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > > On vr, 01 aug 2003, Jonathan C. wrote: > > > > [...] Snip large troubleshooting guide :P > > > > Thanks Jonathan, > > > > I finally got it working, but I'm a bit confused: I followed your tip > > about the alsamixer, but master and pcm were not muted. Then I checked > > the alsa guide on the gentoo site, and executed the 'amixer set Master > > 100 unmute' and 'amixer set PCM 100 unmute' commands. All of a sudden > > sound was working again... > > > > Does this mean that amixer and alsamixer are 2 different things ? > > > > Anyway, thanks again ! > > > > Dick > > Yes, they are different programs that both operate on the sound > hardware. I have not heard of this problem with alsamixer before. > > My suspicion, once again, was that the asound.state file that alsamixer > and amixer use as a database was not valid after your recompile. I have > definitely had problems when that file was wrong, but erasing it and > letting Alsa remake it fixed things. This is what I think amixer did. > > Glad it's working.
Just a question, I do not know what your soundcard is, but are you using digital output ? Glad it's working, alsa can be tricky. Jonathan > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- You will be singled out for promotion in your work.
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