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

[Geoff Shang]

Hi Terry:

I think your alsa drivers are in fact working.   However, the default state
is for all channels to be muted.  You were on the right track with amixer,
though mic needs to be written MIC not mic.  Amixer is annoyingly case
sensitive like that.  Type amixer and pipe it through more to see how your
channels are set and how to spell the names in order to change them.  You
can alternatively edit /etc/asound.conf and type 'alsactl restore' to load
your new settings, though you might want to use a mixer anyway to fine tune
them.

There is indeed an interactive mixer called alsamixer, though aumix should
work if you have oss emulation (which you would want).  I found that
alsamixer would segfault when I tried to run it.  Kirk Reiser solved my
problem by suggesting I might have an old ncurses development library
installed.  If you get this problem, check to see that you have
libncurses5-dev installed, then it should run just fine after recompilation
of alsa-utils.

Geoff.


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