From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9467 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Jan 2003 14:46:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26449 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2003 14:46:59 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:40:43 -0700 From: Alain Penders To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030128144043.GB22564@purematrix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alain Penders , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <003001c2c30a$c9871e40$d628c480@rskwork> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organisation: RexOrient.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fw: The Gentoo ALSA Guide X-Archives-Salt: e627eb7f-68fa-4f98-b7b9-4dc577059f46 X-Archives-Hash: acc8b72e7954bccfb140ce212b2a39c4 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list