On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM, shawn wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > i'm pretty sure debian etch used alsa for sound. if this is the case, > try to install 'alsamixer' and see if anything is muted that shouldn't > be. this will do two things - first, it won't load if it can't find > 'mixer' and second, you'll be able to unmute anything that was muted > by default. second, if that works out fine, i think alsaplayer comes > with a utility to play wave files. try playing one of the wave files > that came with X (find / -type f -iname "*.wav") > > ps - sorry long wind, not paying attention to what i'm doing. > >
My motherboard is asus p4bmx I have installed alsamixergui It has many controls but none of them seem to help IMHO none of replies seem brilliant Thanks anyway! I'd rather give up I remember the intel audio chip work with kernel 2.4 in sarge it has a package that config it correctly I can install another sound card which I can get it to work in etch I have get my ISA SB 16 to work ever since kernel 2.0 and kernel 2.2 and kernel 2.4 and kernel 2.6 This time I fail Linux sometimes is hard to use -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
