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

[Steven Cabrera]

Try man alsamixer

or

alsamixer card -0

depending on the card number you wish to work with.

I hope that helps.

On 9/5/06, Paul Higgins <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>
> Derick beat me to it with his advice re: alsamixer.  It certainly sounds
> like
> it hasn't been installed.  I did an "everything" install on my machine, so
> for me it's been there from the beginning.  Re: email, I thought that YDL
> came with a spam filter (spamassassin?).  Again, if you did less than a
> full
> install, it might not yet be on your system.  I use KMail and am happy
> with
> it.
>
> Re: other email clients, you may already be aware that the Mozilla people
> stopped development on the Mozilla suite in order to focus on the
> stand-alone
> applications (Firefox browser and Thunderbird email).  So you might want
> to
> pick up at least the browser, as it looks like all the helpful plugins and
> extensions are now being written nearly exclusively for that application.
>
> Also, for managing packages, etc., yum is pretty decent, but I've really
> gotten spoiled by Debian (on my x86 work machine + my dual G4), which I
> have
> to say is probably the best distribution when it comes to this
> task.  Anyway,
> Synaptic (Debian's GUI-based package manager) is also available for YDL
> (from
> freshrpms, I believe).  I recently installed it and it appears to work OK.
>
> -PRH
>
> P.S  I should also correct an erroneous statement I made: the two distros
> that
> claim to still run on Old World machines are Debian and Mandriva (not
> Ubuntu).
>
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 11:20, Derick Centeno wrote:
> > 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.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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
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