Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey there. I have a fix for your problem. Once you have the mixer setting you want, run the following as root: touch /etc/asound.conf /usr/sbin/alsactl store Now, whenever you want your old settings back, type: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore And, to make this automated, add the following lines

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread Stew Benedict
You might try using alsactl: /usr/sbin/alsactl: invalid option -- ? Invalid switch or option needs an argument. Usage: alsactl options command Available options: -h,--help this help -f,--file # configuration file (default /etc/asound.conf) -d,--debug debug mode

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:06:19 Stew Benedict wrote: You might try using alsactl: [...] You can then just add one line in rc.local - alsactl restore In 7.2 it is done automatically. See: Launch 'alsamixer' in a terminal. It is not very fancy, but works fine. Adjust your settings. Save

RE: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread Bill Piety
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of praedor Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 10:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97 This is the second time in some 3 years that I have gone to alsa from oss. Originally, on a Redhat 5.0 system, I had problems

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-04 Thread Joan Tur
Hi! I think you're wrong... i've got an AC97 sound and modem card, but it isn't working under Linux -no drivers-. Model is Avance Logic (Realtek?) ALS300+ See you... praedor escribió: On Friday 01 December 2000 08:20 pm, you wrote: I had a similar motherboard and hte sound worked

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-03 Thread praedor
On Friday 01 December 2000 08:20 pm, you wrote: I had a similar motherboard and hte sound worked perfectly on LM 7.1 out of the box! I don't know of sound quality compared to others coz I use it mainly for playing CDs to my head-phones.. but ac97 did work out of the box on VIA chipset in

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-03 Thread praedor
A quick reply to myself... I did manage to get sound working about 5 minutes after posting about my problem. The sound quality is pretty good and, so far, there is none of the cricket-like static I was experiencing with my AudioPCI. I do still wonder why a Mandrake-specific tool (sounddrake)

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-03 Thread Bill Piety
praedor wrote: A quick reply to myself... I did manage to get sound working about 5 minutes after posting about my problem. The sound quality is pretty good and, so far, there is none of the cricket-like static I was experiencing with my AudioPCI. I do still wonder why a Mandrake-specific