--- paul peeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it is routine to have to change audio/mixer > settings in a new > Debian install, or at least it is for me. Audio is > never quite right, so > let me start by saying that the first thing I do is > "cheat", and install > sndconfig. It is ported over from RH in the Debian > package tree. That > should give you the correct entries in modules.conf > if you are using OSS > or ESD. I personally have grown to hate both and > favor installing ALSA > which is as easy as the other to install/configure. > After the conf file is correct, I always have to > change the permissions > on /dev/mixer and other such relevant audio devices > so that your user > can access them. Make sure your devices are not > linked to another device > before changing them. > > Either way, I'm not exactly sure why you are able to > still play mp3s and > such without a little more info. I have had > instances where I was able > to play mp3s from the cl with mpg123 but unable to > use an app that > controls the mixer. PCM is a weird one. > > So, sort of a generic answer, but what I have come > up with thus far. I'm > no Linux audio expert by any stretch. Post more > system details and I > will try to be more help. What sound card are you > using? What app are > you using to play mp3s and such, and what is it > configured to use (OSS, > ESD, etc...). > > Paul
Well, I have a little more information now. I've found two mixer apps that I'm able to start, aumix-gtk and nmixer. With at least nmixer (didn't test aumix-gtk yet) I can actually control the output volume. My soundcard is SoundBlaster PCI 128, and it uses en1371, which seems to be fine as I can see it started in dmesg, and of course I hear what I'm supposed to. I *think* the permissions for /dev/mixer are ?rw-rw---- (I forget what the first position is supposed to be -- c? And I'm at work right now, rather than at my box) Oh, for running mp3's & wav's, I can still use either mpg321 or mp3blaster or xmms, respectively (I don't think I'm supposed to be able to use mp3blaster for wav's) No problems to report. And I'm running a 2.4.16 kernel with OSS. As I said earlier, I haven't changed my kernel since I was mostly running woody, but a lot of my pkgs. are now from sarge. I'll take a closer look in /var/cache/apt/archives to see if anything got installed recently that looks like it's related to sound processing. Thanks! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
