Gentoo has an excellent step by step howto to setting up your ALSA based sound system, at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml. If you've not checked this out yet, i suggest you do.
I used it and had no issues, and i'm using a laptop! cheers Essien -----Original Message----- From: Gwendolyn van der Linden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] setting sound volume > - my sound volume is very low when I try to listen some > music by xmms, > have you idea in how can fix that? What are you using? Alsa? If so, run alsamixer (from alsa-utils), and check the levels. > - According to you, is there any advantage to use alsa versus oss? > Could you list what should I emerge to have alsa woking? > I mean libs, plugins, etc? Alsa is the wave of the future. OSS is deprecated. Gwen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list