Sound not working

Dave Uhring wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:22:44 -0400, Chris Saunders wrote:
>
>> I just installed Slackware 9.1 and everything appears to
>> be working well except the sound. I have a Soundblaser
>> Live soundcard. After first installing I ran 'alsamixer'
>> and moved the two volume controls on the left to the
>> maximum position. I then ran 'alsactl store'.
>
> You need to unmute the mixer and volume controls. 'm'

I'm sorry but I don't understand how to accomplish what you
suggest. Haven't done much with Linux yet.

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Regards
Chris Saunders

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:20:05 -0400, Chris Saunders wrote:

> Dave Uhring wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:22:44 -0400, Chris Saunders wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed Slackware 9.1 and everything appears to
>>> be working well except the sound. I have a Soundblaser
>>> Live soundcard. After first installing I ran 'alsamixer'
>>> and moved the two volume controls on the left to the
>>> maximum position. I then ran 'alsactl store'.
>>
>> You need to unmute the mixer and volume controls. 'm'
>
> I'm sorry but I don't understand how to accomplish what you
> suggest. Haven't done much with Linux yet.

Run alsamixer again. If there are "MM" over some volume controls, it means
the channels are muted. You have to unmute them pressing m to hear
anything on those channels. Try playing some music with xmms (or other
music player) and updating alsamixer simultaneously.

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> Run alsamixer again. If there are "MM" over some volume controls, it means
> the channels are muted. You have to unmute them pressing m to hear
> anything on those channels. Try playing some music with xmms (or other
> music player) and updating alsamixer simultaneously.
>
> --
> Jakub Jankowski
> shasta AT spam DOT atn DOT pl
>

Unmuted the chanals as instructed above and ran 'alsactl store' but no luck
(tried playing an mp3 file). I also have Womdpws XP installed on my
machine and the sound works fine there so I know the problem is not with
the soundcard. Any other suggestions?

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Regards
Chris Saunders

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:20:05 -0400, Chris Saunders wrote:

> Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:22:44 -0400, Chris Saunders wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed Slackware 9.1 and everything appears to
>>> be working well except the sound. I have a Soundblaser
>>> Live soundcard. After first installing I ran 'alsamixer'
>>> and moved the two volume controls on the left to the
>>> maximum position. I then ran 'alsactl store'.
>>
>> You need to unmute the mixer and volume controls. 'm'
>
> I'm sorry but I don't understand how to accomplish what you
> suggest. Haven't done much with Linux yet.

Mate

With alsamixer there are two steps after firing up alsamixer.

You have done step 1 already ...that is set the volume level of
each desired channel.

The second step is to unmute or turn on each of the channels that
you have selected. This is done by pressing the 'm' key on your
keyboard for each of your desired channels.

Cheers

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:30:17 -0400, Chris Saunders wrote:

>
> "Jakub Jankowski" <shasta DeleteThis @spam.atn.pl> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.06.18.07.55.45.731685@spam.me.no.more...
>
> snipped some
>
>> Run alsamixer again. If there are "MM" over some volume controls, it means
>> the channels are muted. You have to unmute them pressing m to hear
>> anything on those channels. Try playing some music with xmms (or other
>> music player) and updating alsamixer simultaneously.
>>
>> --
>> Jakub Jankowski
>> shasta AT spam DOT atn DOT pl
>>
>
> Unmuted the chanals as instructed above and ran 'alsactl store' but no luck
> (tried playing an mp3 file). I also have Womdpws XP installed on my
> machine and the sound works fine there so I know the problem is not with
> the soundcard. Any other suggestions?

Install Slack9.1 and it all should work fine.