Re: Problems with sound files for events
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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problems with sound files for events
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. What is that packaged as - there doesn't seem to be any candidate and I already have alsamixergui alsa-tools and alsa-utils installed. Using alsamixer doesn't even show up a device that I would associate with system sound events aside from beep. AG
Re: Problems with sound files for events
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
Re: Problems with sound files for events
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:52:33 +0100, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: snip What is that packaged as - there doesn't seem to be any candidate and I already have alsamixergui alsa-tools and alsa-utils installed. Using alsamixer doesn't even show up a device that I would associate with system sound events aside from beep. If you have alsa tools installed you should have it. Did you run it ? Does your kernel have the proper modules installed for your sound card ? That has to be done first before ALSA can configure it. It's pretty straight forward when one runs 'alsaconf' with prompts and all. FWIU ALSA is the preferred sound driver for Linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
