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
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