[GRLUG] sound issues RESOLVED
Roberto Villarreal
rvillarreal at mktec.com
Mon Dec 5 16:03:42 EST 2005
john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:48:22PM -0500, Topher wrote:
>
>>After reading many many forums, someone said to open
>>gnome-volumne-control, go to preferences, and add a new device called
>>External Amplifier (it's in a list). Then check it as "enabled", and it
>>works.
>>
>>So I'm all set. I really want to know what THAT did however, so I don't
>>have to rely on gnome-volume-control to make it work in the future.
>
>
> What does 'lsmod' show? If enabling the volume made it work, it must
> have been working all along, I would think...
For what it's worth, I've always had the same issue on every debian box
that has sound (with the exception of one, which KDE automagically took
care of). Modules always loaded properly, etc., but by default,
everything is always muted. I would have to open alsamixer and unmute
everything... then everything worked.
Roberto
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