there is some good stuff on alsa here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
don't be put off by the gentoo domain, it is reasonable general and a man of your talents can adapt it to his situation. The alsa-project site has good howtos for each card to. go to the "supported soundcards" matrix, choose yours and click on "details". http://www.alsa-project.org/ On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:49:26 +1200 Vik Olliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 19:57, Sascha Beaumont wrote: > > Presuming Debian, you can simply download the alsa-modules-2.4.26-1-686 > > package. > > OK, got those in. Couldn't find much of a config utility, so I tried > /etc/init.d/alsad start > > Neh, doesn't load modules or anything. I did "modproble snd-via82xx" and > that seemed to load a heap of ALSA modules. Tried "/etc/init.d/alsa > start" and didn't get an error. > > Sound files still play back nearly twice as fast as they should, but now > I don't hear any sound at all! > > I fire up AlsaMixer and noticed that there's a line saying > > Item: Master [Off] > > which I assumed was the culprit, but nothing saying "On" in the Help. > Eventually I figured that the M key might be worth trying, and now I > have Alsa running - with even speedier "Chipmunk" effects. I did try all > available Alsa config options in XMMS, until Blondie's Atomic became too > painful to listen to. > > I'm hoping there's more to Alsa than this, and am open to non-anatomical > suggestions. > > Vik :v) > ---- > Avoid analogies like the plague. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
