Sound with ALSA

[Samuel Rydh]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:18:38AM -0500, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote:
> On Friday 30 January 2004 22:29, somebody named Nathanael Hasbrouck inscribed 
> this message:
> > I've just been trying to sort out sound support here, and hit a bit of a
> > snag. MOL finally compiled with ALSA support (after I installed
> > alsa-headers and libasound2-dev :), but it's not quite working. 
> > '/etc/mol/molrc.sound" is attached.  Relevant snip from the log:
> >
> > Autoswitching to console
> > Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'sheep-<eth0>' @ FE:FD:DE:AD:BE:EF
> > Using ALSA mixer PCM 0 (mixerdevice 'default')
> > ALSA sound driver (device 'default')
> > ALSA: failed to setup mixer
> > MOL SCSI controller registered
> 
> My bad - sound works, despite it complaining about the mixer.  I somehow 
> neglected to actually test it last night by playing sounds from macos... #^|

But the volume control won't work (i.e. you can't change the overall
volume in Mac OS).

You could try running the alsamixer utility (or some similar
program) in order to find the appropriate name for the mixer
(PCM obviously doesn't work).

/Samuel