progress report - alsa+sblive

[Jason Custer]

What is this olsa stuff anyway?
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From: Charles Hallenbeck <chuckh at mhonline.net>
To: Speakup Distribution List <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 4:52 AM
Subject: progress report - alsa+sblive


> Thanks to Jacob, Bill, Vic and others for your help... I have persisted
> with the alsa drivers and have the card working now, but I am not that
> happy with it and may try some of the other drivers you have
> suggested. While it works, it seems totally unresponsive to most of the
> options in 'amixer' although the program seems to accept my commands - no
> errors shown, and 'alsactl' seems to store and restore them okay. BTW -
> Bill - I was unable to use the asound.conf you sent because it specified a
> difference chip for the mixer. I created a new asound.conf with alsactl
> and then adjusted its settings for all those features I recognized. I left
> 'video' 'phone' and 'PC speaker' alone. But I get just barely audible
> sound despite all the gain settings - even setting 'Master' to 0 fails to
> mute the card, and setting it to max does not increase it.
>
> I will play a little more before abandoning aLSA WITH THIS CARD. oH WELL -
> BETTER THAN NOTHING, ALTHOUGH MY OLD SYSTEM SURE WAS A WINNER IN
> COMPARISON!
>
> cHUCK.
>
>
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
> Back when I was a boy it was 40 miles toeverywhere,
> uphill both ways, and it was always snowing!
>
>
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