Would someone please explain to me why the folks @ Suse and other distributors had to go to so much trouble to screw up a good thing. A couple of years ago I bought a license from OSS and used about any sound card I wished in Linux. Of all the configurations I have ever done in Unix/Linux, installing a OSS driver had to be the easiest. Now, all of a sudden we have alsa. You install the package, screw around finding out if mods are loaded, run the alsa config script, recheck in lsmod that everything is where and in the pre described order it should be and guess what?? You still can't get any damn sound because someone thought it would be a good idea to turn the volume down to off. Give me a break!! I have installed this program and gone through all of the hoops. I have opened every mixer available on the distribution and I still can't find the mixer I'm supposed to UNmute. May I ask a question?? Why was a simple thing made so difficult? Is it because we are running Linux and no configuration is allowed to be easy? If all of my rant is too much, will someone please tell me where do I find this damn elusive mixer I have to unmute to get sound. I and running a SB Live and yes it is installed and configured properly with the exception of the bloody mixer. TIA Rusty -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Rusty wrote:
Give me a break!! I have installed this program and gone through all of the hoops. I have opened every mixer available on the distribution and I still can't find the mixer I'm supposed to UNmute.
have you tried smix -- Togan Muftuoglu toganm@turk.net -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* Rusty (irisinc@gci.net) [20000606 08:47]:
May I ask a question?? Why was a simple thing made so difficult? Is it because we are running Linux and no configuration is allowed to be easy?
If all of my rant is too much, will someone please tell me where do I find this damn elusive mixer I have to unmute to get sound.
First of all, calm down ;-) There is a simple reason that we and other
distributors switch to ALSA: its a sound architecture far superior to OSS
and will become the standard Linux sound architecture in the not too near
future.
For instance support for professional multichannel cards like the RME
Hammerfall would be impossible with OSS. OSS was great at the time it was
created, but simply doesn't cut it nowadays.
But now to your problems. Channels are muted by default in ALSA for a good
reason. Ever experienced loading an OSS driver and suddenly having your
speakers emit at ear splitting volume? You can unmute them with a number of
mixers:
- amixer: a pure command line tool, so you have to issue
'amixer set Master unmute'.
- alsamixer: ncurses based text mode mixer, unmuting is done by pressing
'm' on the channels you want to unmute.
- gamix or xamixer2: both are graphical mixers, based on GTK+.
Whatever mixer you use, remember to call 'alsactl store' afterwards to store
the mixer settings. They'll then be restored automatically when you boot the
next time (or by calling 'alsactl restore'). And you'll need ALSA aware
mixers anyway to activate and controll mixer devices the OSS API doesn't
know about (like the Wave mixer device on a Trident 4DWaveNX).
Hope that helps
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas
Philipp Thomas wrote:
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- amixer: a pure command line tool, so you have to issue 'amixer set Master unmute'. - alsamixer: ncurses based text mode mixer, unmuting is done by pressing 'm' on the channels you want to unmute. - gamix or xamixer2: both are graphical mixers, based on GTK+.
Seeing this list of apps rises another question: are there tools that can be used for sound recording? I'd like to record my old vinyl records onto CD... Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 05:02:21PM +0200, juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de wrote:
Seeing this list of apps rises another question: are there tools that can be used for sound recording? I'd like to record my old vinyl records onto CD...
Broadcast2000 should do the trick and give you a lot of control. It's in 6.4, but not 6.3. There are a myriad of wav recorders out there; I'd check http://freshmeat.net/ ;). -- -=|JP|=- "Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
In article <393D127D.C40C8E0B@ruhr-west.de>, juergen.braukmann@ruhr- west.de writes
Philipp Thomas wrote:
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- amixer: a pure command line tool, so you have to issue 'amixer set Master unmute'. - alsamixer: ncurses based text mode mixer, unmuting is done by pressing 'm' on the channels you want to unmute. - gamix or xamixer2: both are graphical mixers, based on GTK+.
Seeing this list of apps rises another question: are there tools that can be used for sound recording? I'd like to record my old vinyl records onto CD...
I have done this a bit under Windows using basic record functions and it seems to work under linux but the software you really need as a SpinDoctor type to get rid of those clicks. Without that kind of facility you really need very clean vinyl from which to work, I have not come across anything quite as good although I haven't tried SpinDoctor via VMware yet. I am uncertain as to how good VM's sound support is. Second Hand CD shops can be a viable alternative to the time investment I find, if they are available in that format:) Anyway vinyl is back in fashion I am told... -- Karen Hunter-Jones karen@lspace.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Rusty wrote:
Would someone please explain to me why the folks @ Suse and other distributors had to go to so much trouble to screw up a good thing.
A couple of years ago I bought a license from OSS and used about any sound card I wished in Linux. Of all the configurations I have ever done in Unix/Linux, installing a OSS driver had to be the easiest.
If that was the easiest, I certainly don't want to hear about any other you've done. I tried a couple hours every day for two weeks, and once got my sound card to make a noise like a drunken raven. With a wav file of the Moonlight Sonata.
Now, all of a sudden we have alsa.
Which installed and immediately worked. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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