Problems with ALSA on 2.6 Kernel

[John Lannon]

I ended up installing the 1.0.3 driver and running
alsa as a kernel module rather than building in the
kernel.  I also installed the latest version of xmms
which has an alsa plugin.  Unfortunately, nothing I've
tried (alsamixer, kmixer, amixer) will increase the
volume to where CDs are audible.  Anyone know what
configuration I should use to go back to dmasound in
2.6.4 ?

--- John Lannon <jazzsteric@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This might work if the alsamixer worked, but all the
> alsa apps (amixer, aplay, alsamixer) can not seem to
> find the sound card.  The normal play program (not
> aplay) will play a file as will the Sound Settings
> in
> the KDE Control Center.  However, the volume levels
> are very low.  If I do play -v xx, the volume levels
> do increase but the sound quality goes down
> considerably.
> 
> Could it be that the sound card (ALSA ids it as:
> PowerMac Snapper (Dev 34), whatever that is?) on the
> eMac is not yet truely supported by ALSA?
> 
> 
> --- Norberto Quintanar <nquintanar@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > --- Ed Sutherland <digital@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 March 2004 08:20 am, John Lannon
> > wrote:
> > > > Simon,
> > > >
> > > > I finally got ALSA working (I think), but at
> an
> > > > extremely low volume.  The key I believe was
> NOT
> > to
> > > 
> > > I have this very problem with KDE. How do I
> begin
> > to enable sound
> > > support for 
> > > my iMac? Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Ed
> > 
> > Ed,
> > 
> > KDE wants to load specific mixer settings at start
> > up.  If you just
> > fire up alsamixer and change it back to the way
> you
> > like, then go
> > into the KDE control panel under Sound --> Mixer,
> > there is a button
> > to save current mixer settings. There is also a
> > check box to load
> > mixer settings at start up. You can probably just
> > uncheck that box
> > and that way KDE won't try to mess with your
> > settings when it starts
> > up. I had a similar problem on my sound card, KDE
> > messed the
> > left/right balance to where I only got sound out
> of
> > the right
> > channel. I reset my mixer to my "right" settings
> > then clicked the
> > "Save Mixer" button in the control panel in KDE.
> > 
> > Hopefully this helps your situation.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ~NQ
> > 
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