alsa sound drivers

[Jim Ruby]

I apoligise to all who were on the reflecter, I was trying the echo server too, but well lets just say i should of taken a breake after going in circles for a day.

I did try to chat too, but guess no one was receiving my chats.
thanks for the good info below.  Hopefully I can get this to go.



On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:36:20 -0500, Gene Collins wrote:

>
>Hi Jim.  If what we heard on the reflecter over the weekend is a sample
>then your sound card will probably not work.  Larry Bagget has been
>trying to get his Maestro card up and running for quite a while and
>hasn't had much success.
>
>By the way, you should use the echo server, not the reflecter to test
>your card.  You were generating pure white noise over the weekend, and
>not reading or not receiving chats when people were asking you to stop. 
>nthis is ot very polite behavior.  The address for the echo server is
>lwl.braille.uwo.ca.  The only difference is that you don't put the :4074
>on the end of the address.  The echo server will allow you to send about
>10 seconds of audio to it, and then send the same audio back to you. 
>It's a great way to find out whether your sound card is working, and
>whether you need to adjust your volume controls or not.
>
>The ALSA drivers can be found at http://www.alsa-project.org/.  Be very
>sure to read the INSTALL file that comes with the drivers, and
>particularly pay attention to the section for your sound card.  There
>are a couple of complete examples of additions you'll need to make to
>your /etc/modules.conf file for most distributions, or your
>/etc/modutils/aliases file for Debian.  Using your favorite editor, you
>can copy the configuration examples into a file, and then edit it to
>meet your needs.  When you have your configuration file the way you want
>it, save it, and paste it onto the bottom of your /etc/modules.conf
>file, or your /etc/modutils/aliases file.  If your running Debian,
>you'll have to run update-modules after editing your aliases file.
>
>Finally, you'll need three files from the alsa-projects site. 
>Alsa-driver-0.xx.xx, alsa-lib-0.xx.xx and alsa-utils-0.xx.xx.  All of
>the files have a tar.gz or tar.bz2 suffix.  The xx stands for the
>version number of the alsa drivers, and you should get driver, library
>and utility files with the same version number.  You'll need to install
>the drivers, then the libraries, and finally the utilities in that
>order.  The libraries look to see if the drivers are installed, and the
>utilities depend on the libraries, so you'll have to compile and install
>things exactly in this order.
>
>As I said, I think your sound card may be broken from what we heard on
>the reflecter over the weekend, but using the Alsa drivers may fix the
>problem.  It's certainly worth a try.
>
>Gene Collins
>
>>will the alsa drivers work with my amaestro iie sound card?
>>Where can I find and install these drivers from?
>>
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