Alsa 0.5.10 w/ Debian - was: Re: not working yet

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Kirk,

You wrote:

-=> Terry,
-=>
-=> What happens when you attempt to play a sound? Does the software chug away
-=> as if it is playing?
	Yes. When I do:
	"cat filename >/dev/audio"
there is a pause before I get the prompt back, but no sound.

-=>
-=> Now if the above is true, I would recomend that you double check that the
-=> speaker is plugged into the right jack and that it is powered. (Even
-=> better if this card was working fine in Windows without any change outside
-=> the OS. I would also recomend that you change consoles and go into
-=> interactive mode of alsamixer. That may leave some more clues here.
The sound card works perfectly nder Win98 (dual boot system here). How do you get an "interactive" mode on the amixer program? This is amixer from the alsa-utils v0.5.10. The man page says nothing about an interactive mode... or are you thinking of the older aumix mixer? I used to use that one, but it doesn't work withthe newer alsa versions.

		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
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	light bulb?
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	the Engineering Section is getting dim, at which point Kirk will send
	Bones to pronounce the bulb dead (although he'll immediately claim
	that he's a doctor, not an electrician).  Scotty, after checking
	around, realizes that they have no more new light bulbs, and complains
	that he "canna" see in the dark.  Kirk will make an emergency stop at
	the next uncharted planet, Alpha Regula IV, to procure a light bulb
	from the natives, who, are friendly, but seem to be hiding something.
	Kirk, Spock, Bones, Yeoman Rand and two red shirt security officers
	beam down to the planet, where the two security officers are promply
	killed by the natives, and the rest of the landing party is captured.
	As something begins to develop between the Captain and Yeoman Rand,
	Scotty, back in orbit, is attacked by a Klingon destroyer and must
	warp out of orbit.  Although badly outgunned, he cripples the Klingon
	and races back to the planet in order to rescue Kirk et. al. who have
	just saved the natives' from an awful fate and, as a reward, been
	given all lightbulbs they can carry.  The new bulb is then inserted
	and the Enterprise continues on its five year mission.