sound config tools

[maveric maveriq]

Chris I think your on to something with this but I
don't have the programs anyware, her what I have

chkconfig --list|less 
alsa            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on  
 5:on    6:off

locate alsa|less  
/etc/sysconfig/alsa
/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K70alsa
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K70alsa
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S70alsa
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S70alsa
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S70alsa
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S70alsa
/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K70alsa
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-0.5.10
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-0.5.10/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-0.5.10/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-0.5.10/INSTALL
/usr/share/alsa
/usr/share/alsa/alsa-utils
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-ac97-codec.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-ad1816a.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-ad1848.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-ainstr-gf1.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-ainstr-iw.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-ainstr-simple.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/alsa/snd-ak4531-codec.o.gz

vi alsa
# -*- Mode: sh -*-
# Define true if you want the OSS compatibility layer
# to be automatically loaded as well
startosslayer=true
 
# Define true if you want to unload alsa modules
before
# your system suspneds. This is currently useful if
your
# machine is hanged up after resume.
force_stop_modules_before_suspend=false
 
# Uncomment if you always want to stop alsa modules
forcibly in
# /etc/init.d/alsa stop or restart by killing all of
running
# applications which use sound devices.
#ALSA_KILL_MODE="force"

locate alsamixer 
nothing
locate amixer 
nothing

--- Chris Horner <etchorner at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Maveric,
> 
> If you are using alsa sound system drivers for your
> sound card, you will 
> need to unmute the sound card after the modules
> load. This sounds like 
> it may actually be your problem.  Something like
> 'amixer set PCM 100 
> unmute' is supposed to work, then you can use
> 'alsamixer' to fine tune 
> the settings.  Check out the "Alsa-sound"
> mini-howto, in particular 
> section 7.3 (on my system: 
> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Alsa-sound,html)
> 
> -Chris Horner


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