From: Nick Zentena <zentena@hophead.dyndns.org> To: "Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt@hotmail.com>, suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] yast2 and alsa and lots of angry ranting Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:38:31 -0500

On January 6, 2001 07:27 pm, Purple Shirt wrote:

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until 6.4 rolled around and with it yast2 and the fact that SuSe started trying to include sound setup with its distro. From there on sound setup may have become easy for people who like yast2 and think it does a good job. For me yast2 makes sound almost impossible to enjoy. I got opl3sa2 card.

The problem is that if I use the alsa.rpm and alsadev.rpm and use yast2

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set sound up it gives me sound but loops forever. it's not sound its noise. So there I tell myself that I just don't use yast2 and compile my sound like in the past myself.

The problem is ever since suse created this automatic sound setup its impossible to compile alsa yourself. I constantly get this stupid error:

amixer: Mixer 0/0 open error: Invalid argument

That doesn't sound like a compiler error. I haven't looked at yast2 in awhile but last time I did all the program did was call the alsa utilities. There is nothing stopping you from manually running alsactl. Or from hand editing the asound.conf file.

It's no compiler error. It's the error I get once I reboot and try to unmute the sucker. Modules load but it doesn't unmute thing hence I can;t hear anything. BTW even if I used yast2 now I don't get /etc/asound.conf back. I deleted the file once but since alsactl doesn't run smoothly I don't get that file back.

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I wish we all go back to good old text file setup and none of this yast2 junk.

So don't use it. Edit the file yourself. Alsa compiles just fine here. At least when I got the kernel fixed. Just grab the tarball and do it. Nothing stopped me. All the old tools are still there. Nobody forces you to use rpm or cute programs like yast2.

Nick

Well I spend basically 8 hours on this now. I do my own compiles and they compile just fine but we still end up at the same problem with the mixer. mk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com