newby sound question

[Janina Sajka]

OK, this is helpful.

Did you say also that you installed ALSA somehow? Did you use the
ALSA rpms to do that?

I ask because the sndconfig script provided by Red Hat configures
for OSS and not for ALSA.

Still, I would do the following:

Try playing a sound. Do:

locate .wav

which will find whatever wav files are on your hard disk. Select
one and do:

play [filename]

If you hear sound, you know that either OSS or ALSA are working.

If you hear nothing, or if it's too loud, or not loud enough, do:

aumix -q |more 2>&1

This will show current sound configuration parameters like
volume. Examine the output. Is volume reasonably high? If not,
adjust as needed. There are aumix commands to use.

By the way, the "|more 2>&1" part keeps the report from scrolling
off screen. You probably need it, but you may not need it
depending on your display characteristics.

Once you have the settings as you like them, save them. You will
see the commands for saving to a file, and the command for
loading from a file with:

aumix -h |more 2>&1

Let's go that far before talking about ALSA specifics.


On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, michael malver wrote:

> sorry I did the redhat 7.3 talking install.
> let me ask these questions differently.
> 1. a sound module called sb is being loaded early on in my startup process.
> Is this a generic module for the sound blaster, or unrelated.  Would it make
> sense for me to remove references to the 1888 sound chips from my
> modules.conf and see if I ccan play an mp3, or a wav?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 3:36 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: RE: newby sound question
> 
> 
> 
> Understood. The sample played from the sound configuration
> program does come from your sound card. The Speakup beeps do not.
> 
> What distribution are you running? You neglected to say, and
> without that datum it's hard to advise you.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, michael malver wrote:
> 
> >  I may have mentioned this in my last message, but I can hear the sample
> > sound played when you run the sndconfig program. It says "hello"
> > THis says to me that at some level, sound is working.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> > Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 11:53 AM
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: newby sound question
> >
> >
> > The beeps from your speaker when you arrow around the screen
> > using Speakup's screen review features are not from your sound
> > card.
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org