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

[Steven Cabrera]

Well I can't get it right.

Try

alsamixer -c 0

or other card number.  Sorry for the mistake I'm a noobie too :-/

On 9/5/06, Steven Cabrera <steve.cabrera at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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