No sound lessons

2005-08-25 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Mike Hernande wrote on Wed, 24 Aug 2005: Welcome to the community :) You're a newbie, get used to it. I mean that in a really good way, so don't misunderstand. Being in your position means you took a first step on a long road... or maybe not a road.. maybe it's a swim... in an ocean? This i

No sound lessons

2005-08-25 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 I feel no anguish. I applaud your efforts so far and hope you continue to pursue the {,B}LFS way of Linux. I am a forthright person who speaks his mind. I can come off as abrasive. I am constantly working on that. Though I can certainly say I will ne

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-24 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/24/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was nice to see so many fellow-users of the List felt concerned about > this subject. Shows how active this List is. > > This started with me. I owe an explanation. > Welcome to the community :) You're a newbie, get used to it. I mean

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/24/05 20:29 CST: > The Book is very well done. That is why a novice like me has reached this > far, having installed X and Kde and now asking questions about how to get > the peripherals going. No mean achievemnet for the LFS/BLFS team. You are a > promin

No sound lessons

2005-08-24 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21 Sorry if you took my efforts to help as being insulting. You are responding to my last message where I indicated that what the OP was asking for us to put in the book is already covered in documentation provided by the package. Typically, we don

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Byron wrote these words on 08/22/05 21:09 CST: > Imagine taking the time to write a constructive suggestion, and being > flamed for it. Last I checked, it was considered good form to close off > a long support thread with a summary of the solution; that Randhir > actually did this is im

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread Jeremy Byron
Randy McMurchy wrote: With all due respect, you are the only person I can remember who has posted on this list who had trouble getting the mixer to unmute the channels and in configuring XMMS. This is basic operational stuff. Sure there is an occasional question about the setup of a particular

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote on Sun, 21 Aug 2005: With all due respect, you are the only person I can remember who has posted on this list who had trouble getting the mixer to unmute the channels and in configuring XMMS. This is basic operational stuff. Sure there is an occasional question about

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Benton
Declan Moriarty wrote: Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words If you want something doing, do it yourself. Write a patch that fixes the problem and send it to the package maintainers. I think that's a poor attitude to hear on a support list. To people not familiar with C you have

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Declan Moriarty wrote: > >Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > >>If you want something doing, do it yourself. Write a patch that > >>fixes the problem and send it to the package maintainers. > > > >I think that's a poor attitude to hear

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > randhir phagura wrote: > >Why do novices like me have to "rediscover the wheel"? > > > >In the first place, why the linux gurus have to be so awkward as to > >'mute all channels' by default? Rationally, it should be the other > >way. All channels mu

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-22 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/21/05 20:24 CST: > > > Only a few lines in these respective sections will make novices at > > ease plus this will reduce so much traffic on the List. > > With all due respect, you are the only person I can re

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/22/05 01:20 CST: > That doesn't mean that it isn't an issue. I remember when I first did LFS > getting sound to work was a big deal and it was the same issues that Randhir > is reporting. I didn't post to the list about it, I struggled in silence and > used

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-21 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: This is basic operational stuff. Sure there is an occasional question about the setup of a particular sound card, but traffic on this list on how to unmute the channels using the Alsa-Mixer and how to configure XMMS is nil. That doesn't mean that it isn't an issue. I reme

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-21 Thread Andrew Benton
randhir phagura wrote: Why do novices like me have to "rediscover the wheel"? In the first place, why the linux gurus have to be so awkward as to 'mute all channels' by default? Rationally, it should be the other way. All channels must be opened by default. Is there a way to convey this to th

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/21/05 20:24 CST: > Only a few lines in these respective sections will make novices at ease plus > this will reduce so much traffic on the List. With all due respect, you are the only person I can remember who has posted on this list who had trouble getting

No sound lessons

2005-08-21 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, I wish to thank the Community on the List for all the help in sorting out sound problem on my laptop. Particularly, I thank Jeremy Byron for his painstaking involvement. The sound is now working and xmms gives good music - all that after some struggle though. It is just a thought for t