Alright! Volume control! :-) Xgalaga and Frozen-Bubble still won't play
sound at the same time, but now I'm wondering if that's a problem with
the apps rather than the mixer. At any rate, the terminal beeps are no
longer loud enough to deafen me. :-)<br>
<br>
In other news, I GOT THE FREAKING WINMODEM TO WORK UNDER DEBIAN!!! (Same laptop.) Yes! Yes! YES!!! I win! :-D<br>
<br>
William<br>
Very happy right now! :-)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/20/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Troy Arnold</b> <<a href="mailto:troy@zenux.net">troy@zenux.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:30:55AM -0800, A'fish'ionado wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> I'm fiddling with my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1000--the same one I demoed<br>> Ubuntu on the other week). There's no functioning sound mixer device under
<br>> Debian. The sound card does work; I can pull up a game and the sound for it<br>> does play, but since there's no mixer device, only one application at a time<br>> can play sound, and I have no volume control. Help me before I go deaf. :-)
<br>><br>> I could have sworn that the mixer was working fine at one point, so,<br>> chalking the problem up to something I did while tinkering, I reinstalled<br>> Debian. This cleared the cruft out of my home directory :-) but did not fix
<br>> the problem at all. Note to self: This is Linux not Windows--rebooting or<br>> reinstalling does not fix everything. :-P<br>><br>> The mixer device, tantalizingly, works fine under Ubuntu. Both are running
<br>> 2.6 series kernels. I compared the outputs of lsmod, and tried modprobing<br>> the various modules loaded under Ubuntu, but not Debian. Ubuntu loads a<br>> module named snd-mixer-oss that Debian doesn't, but loading the module
<br>> manually under Debian doesn't seem to help. I also noticed that the file<br>> /etc/modules.d/alsa-conf exists under Ubuntu, but not Debian; copying the<br>> file over to Debian and rebooting didn't fix the problem, either, so I
<br>> removed it.<br><br>Try running 'alsaconf'<br><br>Launch 'alsamixer' (in alsa-utils package) from a console and see if you<br>get any helpful messages.<br><br>make sure /dev/mixer exists and your user is able to write to it.
<br>Mine looks like so:<br>crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 2004-03-11 12:15 /dev/mixer0<br><br>Where my regular user is a member of the audio group.<br><br>-troy<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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