S. Fishpaste wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:24:33 +0100, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
Hi
Using GNOME, the volume control has greyed out all options for using a
"sound theme". The card is HDA NVidia using the ALSA mixer, but I am
unable to access any sound files for alerts, etc.
Is there an arcane trick to getting this sorted or is it a problem with
the sound card. Other audio files play fine (*.ogg *.mp3 and audio
CDs), but Kaffeine doesn't play sound either.
Any ideas/ suggestions?
If you're using ALSA, try 'alsaconf' as root.
Is there any value in using oss instead of alsa? OSS apparently
supports my card: nVidia MCP61 HDA
http://manuals.opensound.com/devlists/Linux.html but I don't want to go
messing with my sound system, so if OSS were the better option any good
docs to use to set-up/configure that?
Running modprobe snd-hda-intel didn't yield anything, so would that
suggest that the right driver/module isn't being loaded at boot time?
Thanks
AG