[gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[John P.Davis]

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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:00:00 +0100
From: Johan Hattne <hattne@ibg.uu.se>
To: zhen@gentoo.org
Subject: The Gentoo ALSA Guide



It's really great! I had ALSA up and running in no-time thanks to your
documentation. I've had a lot more trouble with ALSA on other
distributions.

However, I think it would be appropriate to note that you have to unmute
the channels after remerging the drivers when installing a fresh kernel
(at the very end of the document). I realize it may be very obvious but it
took my a long time to figure that out...

// Cheers; Johan Hattne


            Student @ Biology Education Centre, Uppsala University
_______________________________________________________________________________
Johan Hattne * Rackarbergsgatan 34:432 * S-752 32 UPPSALA * SWEDEN * 018-505684
  Mol. Biotech. & Engineering Phys. * auzzie@yodel.net * http://www.yodel.net


Is this valid?
I have not had to do this in the past..

Cheers,
//zhen
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John P. Davis
Gentoo Linux Documentation Coordinator / Bugzilla Administrator
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[Arun Thomas]

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I only had to do this the first time I installed ALSA. I rebuilt my
kernel and alsa again last night. I didn't have to mess with the mixer
settings at all. That's just my experience though.

Arun (aka sindian)

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:55, John P.Davis wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:00:00 +0100
> From: Johan Hattne <hattne@ibg.uu.se>
> To: zhen@gentoo.org
> Subject: The Gentoo ALSA Guide
> 
> 
> 
> It's really great! I had ALSA up and running in no-time thanks to your
> documentation. I've had a lot more trouble with ALSA on other
> distributions.
> 
> However, I think it would be appropriate to note that you have to unmute
> the channels after remerging the drivers when installing a fresh kernel
> (at the very end of the document). I realize it may be very obvious but it
> took my a long time to figure that out...
> 
> // Cheers; Johan Hattne
> 
> 
>             Student @ Biology Education Centre, Uppsala University
> _______________________________________________________________________________
> Johan Hattne * Rackarbergsgatan 34:432 * S-752 32 UPPSALA * SWEDEN * 018-505684
>   Mol. Biotech. & Engineering Phys. * auzzie@yodel.net * http://www.yodel.net
> 
> 
> Is this valid?
> I have not had to do this in the past..
> 
> Cheers,
> //zhen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[Arun Thomas]

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I only had to do this when I first installed alsa. I built a new kernel
and alsa last night actually. I didn't fiddle with the mixer settings at
all. That's just my experience though.

Arun (aka sindian)

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:55, John P.Davis wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:00:00 +0100
> From: Johan Hattne <hattne@ibg.uu.se>
> To: zhen@gentoo.org
> Subject: The Gentoo ALSA Guide
> 
> 
> 
> It's really great! I had ALSA up and running in no-time thanks to your
> documentation. I've had a lot more trouble with ALSA on other
> distributions.
> 
> However, I think it would be appropriate to note that you have to unmute
> the channels after remerging the drivers when installing a fresh kernel
> (at the very end of the document). I realize it may be very obvious but it
> took my a long time to figure that out...
> 
> // Cheers; Johan Hattne
> 
> 
>             Student @ Biology Education Centre, Uppsala University
> _______________________________________________________________________________
> Johan Hattne * Rackarbergsgatan 34:432 * S-752 32 UPPSALA * SWEDEN * 018-505684
>   Mol. Biotech. & Engineering Phys. * auzzie@yodel.net * http://www.yodel.net
> 
> 
> Is this valid?
> I have not had to do this in the past..
> 
> Cheers,
> //zhen

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RE: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[Riyad Kalla]

I am pretty happy to be hearing this. Last time I tried to get ALSA
working on my Gentoo box (Gentoo 1.1, Athlon 2000+, nForce board) it
took me 3 days of recompiling and ripping out my hair before I finally
gave up.

Has anything drastic changed or am I just the dumbest person on earth?
My buddy could never get it working either... (that was with gentoo 1.1,
an Athlon 1900+ and an nForce board).

Best,
-Riyad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arun Thomas [mailto:arun@virginia.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:41 AM
> To: John P.Davis
> Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide
> 
> 
> I only had to do this the first time I installed ALSA. I 
> rebuilt my kernel and alsa again last night. I didn't have to 
> mess with the mixer settings at all. That's just my experience though.
> 
> Arun (aka sindian)
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:55, John P.Davis wrote:
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:00:00 +0100
> > From: Johan Hattne <hattne@ibg.uu.se>
> > To: zhen@gentoo.org
> > Subject: The Gentoo ALSA Guide
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It's really great! I had ALSA up and running in no-time 
> thanks to your 
> > documentation. I've had a lot more trouble with ALSA on other 
> > distributions.
> > 
> > However, I think it would be appropriate to note that you have to 
> > unmute the channels after remerging the drivers when installing a 
> > fresh kernel (at the very end of the document). I realize it may be 
> > very obvious but it took my a long time to figure that out...
> > 
> > // Cheers; Johan Hattne
> > 
> > 
> >             Student @ Biology Education Centre, Uppsala University 
> > 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> > _________
> > Johan Hattne * Rackarbergsgatan 34:432 * S-752 32 UPPSALA * 
> SWEDEN * 018-505684
> >   Mol. Biotech. & Engineering Phys. * auzzie@yodel.net * 
http://www.yodel.net
> 
> 
> Is this valid?
> I have not had to do this in the past..
> 
> Cheers,
> //zhen


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RE: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Riyad Kalla wrote:

> I am pretty happy to be hearing this. Last time I tried to get ALSA
> working on my Gentoo box (Gentoo 1.1, Athlon 2000+, nForce board) it
> took me 3 days of recompiling and ripping out my hair before I finally
> gave up.
>
> Has anything drastic changed or am I just the dumbest person on earth?
> My buddy could never get it working either... (that was with gentoo 1.1,
> an Athlon 1900+ and an nForce board).

I was in the same situation. It seemed I just had to un-mute the soundcard
with the mixer. I hope that Gentoo in the future will do the
automatically: It is really stupid if people give up using ALSA simply
because they do not know they have to mess with the mixer.


/Ole
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http://ole.tange.dk



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[Alain Penders]

For problems with ALSA, I'd try this:

- Install XMMS, and use it to play some music through OSS.
- If that works, the problem lays in ALSA... make sure it's configured
  to use OSS, make sure the mixer settings are correct... and that it
  doesn't complain about not having access to /dev/dsp.

If you're using KDE, go into the Sound System settings, and lower
"Autosuspend if idle for:" to 2 seconds or so.  This will release the
DSP when none of the KDE apps have made any noice for 2 seconds.  Makes
it a lot easier to use players like XMMS that want to access /dev/dsp
directly (and fail because ARTS is keeping it locked).

Alain


On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:39:50AM +0100, Ole Tange wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> 
> > I am pretty happy to be hearing this. Last time I tried to get ALSA
> > working on my Gentoo box (Gentoo 1.1, Athlon 2000+, nForce board) it
> > took me 3 days of recompiling and ripping out my hair before I finally
> > gave up.
> >
> > Has anything drastic changed or am I just the dumbest person on earth?
> > My buddy could never get it working either... (that was with gentoo 1.1,
> > an Athlon 1900+ and an nForce board).
> 
> I was in the same situation. It seemed I just had to un-mute the soundcard
> with the mixer. I hope that Gentoo in the future will do the
> automatically: It is really stupid if people give up using ALSA simply
> because they do not know they have to mess with the mixer.
> 
> 
> /Ole
> -- 
> http://ole.tange.dk

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide

[John P.Davis]

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 05:39:50 +0100 (CET)
Ole Tange <tange@tange.dk> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> 
> > I am pretty happy to be hearing this. Last time I tried to get ALSA
> > working on my Gentoo box (Gentoo 1.1, Athlon 2000+, nForce board) it
> > took me 3 days of recompiling and ripping out my hair before I finally
> > gave up.
> >
> > Has anything drastic changed or am I just the dumbest person on earth?
> > My buddy could never get it working either... (that was with gentoo 1.1,
> > an Athlon 1900+ and an nForce board).
> 
> I was in the same situation. It seemed I just had to un-mute the soundcard
> with the mixer. I hope that Gentoo in the future will do the
> automatically: It is really stupid if people give up using ALSA simply
> because they do not know they have to mess with the mixer.
> 

You could always file a bug on this..

Cheers,
//zhen
-- 
John P. Davis
Gentoo Linux Documentation Coordinator / Bugzilla Administrator
http://www.uberdavis.com
http://www.gentoo.org
#gentoo-doc on irc.freenode.net

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