ALSA

[Cian Duffy]

Yay! Got it working (on Owens new kernel). Needed to whack all the
sliders on the output tab up on my iBook for it to work. I don't have
anything on the input tab - this laptop doesn't have inputs.... Its
snd_powermac, not snd-powermac. Thanks to Joseph E. Sacco for pointing
me to the modprobe.conf.dist, as I needed it to fix my 'damage' to
modprobe.conf

Listening to Blue Monday through rhythmbox right now.

Its a bit quiet, mind... Must be the hardware volume, which I note
that something (Arts?) is trapping the hotkey commands for at the
moment. Its loud enough with my headphones in.

Cian

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:33:42 +0100, Geert Janssens
<geert.janssens3 at pandora.be> wrote:
> Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > Geert,
> >
> > Were you able to get any of the CD players other than XMMS to work?
> >
> > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-December/016900.html
> >
> >
> > -Joseph
> >
> >
> As a matter of fact, yes, although not immediatly.
> 
> I'm listening to Blur right now, playing through KsCD :-)
> 
> Here's what I had to do to get things working:
> - Change dmasound_pmac into snd_powermac (or snd-powermac according to
> Owen Stampflee ?) in /etc/modprobe.conf.
> - In the KDE Control panel, choose ALSA as the sound device.
> - Open KMix, make sure Mic Boost is way open. On my system, Mic Boost is
> a slider with only three positions. If it's in the lower position, I
> have no sound output at all. In the middle position, I have soft sound,
> I can finetune with the other sliders. In the top position I have full
> sound, fully controllable by the other sliders. Interesting no ? The
> input slider determines whether output is generated. Oh well, once you
> know it, it only makes sense ;-).
> - Then in KMix I use the Headphone slider, and the Amp Master slider to
> set my volume to the desired loudness. I have external speakers attached
> to the phone out. In case you want to use the internal speakers, you can
> use the PC Speaker slider together with the Amp Master. In my case, I
> simply disable PC Speaker, because it interferes with the external speakers.
> - Still in KMix, under the Switches tab, I have to make sure the Mic
> switch is enabled, or I don't have sound ! As I said, input controls
> output, it's only logical :-)
> 
> That's it. Although, I also just killed artsd in the process of trying
> to make CD's work, but I'm not sure if that's needed. I would first try
> leaving artsd as is and see what happens.
> 
> Also note that with the upgrade to 4.0 KDE decided my language should be
> dutch (although my 3.0 installation was English), so I'm not sure if I
> translated all names in KMix correctly.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Geert Jan
> 
> (Damn, they do have some great songs, Blur ;-) )
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