Okay, that modprobe command woke up the mixer and rexima found it with: rexima -d /dev/mixer and took control as it had done on other computers I had. I play frotz games and those have oss type sound effects in them I've not heard since the first days I played infocom games on dos on a pc all those years ago so this should be interesting. Thanks much for all who have helped. I'll put a couple more commands in the file I use to customize debian on this machine.
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no > other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I > will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely > inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > > > Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> writes: > > > > > Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards > > > even with several different combinations of items parsed from the > > > relevant lspci line. > > > > According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try > > something like "rexima -d /dev/mixer". Parsing strings to rexima or > > aumix that have been taken from the output of lspci probably isn't the > > right thing to do. > > > > What exactly are you doing, and do you get any error messages? > > > > > > [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/rexima.1.html > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > jude <jdash...@shellworld.net> > Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdash...@shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209041818400.31...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg