stupid newbie questions........ alsa , mail

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Bear!

Why not check if alsamixer is installed?  You can do:

$whereis alsamixer

If you have it, the YDL system will tell you.  If you don't you can have 
it installed via yum (depending on which version of YDL you are using).

As far as email clients go, you may find Thunderbird very reliable and 
friendly.  Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws are liked by some, but 
Thunderbird does all the right things in an easy to understand way.  It 
has the capacity to reference data from servers using Spamassassin, as 
well as utilize it's own spam filter within it's Junk filter.

Derick.
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bear wrote:
> Hey Paul, thanks for jumping right on that for me.
> I have to say the Yellowdog family is a helpful bunch and I appreciate
> it.
>
> 1. tried to do the alsamixer dance but....here is the result.
>
> [root at localhost bear]# alsamixer
>
> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
> [root at localhost bear]#
>
> surely there is a simple answer that is beyond my room temp. IQ...
>
> 2. best mail program?
> tried kmail and evolution... no spam filter? 
> what is everyone doing for mail?
>
> Thanks for all your help, Barry
>   
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:32:53 -0500
>> From: Paul Higgins <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu>
>> Subject: Re: where from here...
>> To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users
>> 	<yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>> Message-ID: <200609041732.53544.higg0008 at tc.umn.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> On Monday 04 September 2006 08:11, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> 2. CD... no sound... got the cool guitar music from the sound card
>>>> configurator,
>>>> get the song names in the player window like it should be playing....
>>>> made sure the volume was up....
>>>> but NO SOUND and no error message.... and no import to rythmbox 0.8.x
>>>> music player
>>>> It would be nice to soothe my savage beast with some smooth jazz as I
>>>> explore this alien OS...
>>>>         
>> Can't help you a whole lot with the other stuff, but sound I can.  You first 
>> need to open a terminal and use the "alsamixer" command.  This will bring up 
>> a control panel right in the terminal window where you hopefully will be able 
>> to adjust your sound settings.  You can read the manpage (man alsamixer), or 
>> to print the manpage (assuming you have a working printer with your system):
>>
>> man -t alsamixer | lp
>>
>> I've found that at least on my system, I have to use alsamixer in a terminal 
>> before I use any of the other tools in the GUI or things won't work well.  
>> Unfortunately, I also have to go back to alsamixer each time I reboot or even 
>> logout.  It's kind of a hassle; I just wish I knew if there was a config file 
>> I could edit to make my settings permanent.
>>
>> As for Rhythmbox, you may need to go into the preferences and experiment with 
>> various settings there.  I think I got everything working by using /dev/dsp 
>> for sound device and ALSA for sound server.  The whole sound thing is kind of 
>> frustrating, and I think it's largely due to Apple keeping everything a big 
>> secret when it comes to their soundcards.  The x86 Linux world is way ahead 
>> of PPC Linux when it comes to this kind of thing, unfortunately.
>>
>>     
>>> Lack of sound is a known issue and I'm fairly sure there is a
>>> documented solution to your problem (in the archives of this mailing
>>> list and also in the YDL forum). I never gave a damn about sound on
>>> YDL (why does a server need sound ;-) so I didn't try hard to get
>>> passed the 'playing of the jazz'.
>>>       
>> The info on configuring sound is here:
>>
>> <http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/audio.shtml>
>>
>> Supposedly this is for YDL 4.0.1, but the website has it under "YDL 
>> 4.0-4.0.1", so hopefully this should work in 4.0 as well.
>>
>>     
>>> You get what you pay for ;-). Ubuntu has made some nice progress in
>>> that department though (and, maybe YDL 4.1 but I wouldn't know :-(,
>>> though I'm not sure Ubuntu plays well with OldWorld machines. 
>>>       
>> Supposedly, Debian and Ubuntu are the only distributions that still work well 
>> (or at all) on Old World machines.
>>
>> -PRH
>>
>>     
>
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