Re: Getting sound working

2011-11-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/11/11 00:54, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> >> Kind of... > > Try again, I've put an unreduced image of just the bottom and a little > of the screen... full width. > > www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi Thanks (that I could see) >>> >> What's the icon between klipp

Re: Getting sound working

2011-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: >> Its a reduced image of course but you can see the panel across the >> bottom. > > Kind of... Try again, I've put an unreduced image of just the bottom and a little of the screen... full width. www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi >>Is that not the `system tray' you sp

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/11/11 00:46, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >>> I'm getting pretty confused... you describe things that I just do not >>> see here. >> >> You may not have a System Tray - or you may have it in an unusual >> location (or obscured). > > No, I don't think so. See my desktop w

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: >> I'm getting pretty confused... you describe things that I just do not >> see here. > > You may not have a System Tray - or you may have it in an unusual > location (or obscured). No, I don't think so. See my desktop with 2 instances of emacs, gvim, and several xterms r

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/10/11 14:24, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> "System Tray" - to the left of "Notification", which is left of the clock. >> Check System Tray Settings (right-click in the System Tray) >> In the left-hand pane select "Auto-hide", in the right-hand pane select >> Kmix and set

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: > "System Tray" - to the left of "Notification", which is left of the clock. > Check System Tray Settings (right-click in the System Tray) > In the left-hand pane select "Auto-hide", in the right-hand pane select > Kmix and set it to "Always Visible". There must be somethi

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/10/11 11:49, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> I don't know what theme you have running so I don't know the exact >> appearance - the icon should appear as a small speaker:- >> http://christian.esken.de/kmix/screenshots.html > > Desktop theme is `oxygen' and I have a darkis

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: > I don't know what theme you have running so I don't know the exact > appearance - the icon should appear as a small speaker:- > http://christian.esken.de/kmix/screenshots.html Desktop theme is `oxygen' and I have a darkish image as wallpaper. A scaled down version can b

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/10/11 03:40, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> If:- >> $ apt-get -s install kmix | grep kmix >> gives you:- >> gives you:- >> kmix is already the newest version. >> kmix set to manually installed. > > sudo apt-get -s install kmix |grep kmix > kmix is already the newest ver

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: > If:- > $ apt-get -s install kmix | grep kmix > gives you:- > gives you:- > kmix is already the newest version. > kmix set to manually installed. sudo apt-get -s install kmix |grep kmix kmix is already the newest version. > Then try:- > (and look for error message, and

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/10/11 01:01, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > [...] > >> If you still have KDE installed... >> use the Kmixer - it should be under the Multimedia section of Klauncher >> (your menu) - or you can start it using:- >> $ kmix >> >> It'll appear in the systray - right-click on i

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: [...] > If you still have KDE installed... > use the Kmixer - it should be under the Multimedia section of Klauncher > (your menu) - or you can start it using:- > $ kmix > > It'll appear in the systray - right-click on it, Show Mixer Window => > Mixer => Settings => Config

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Lorenzo Sutton writes: > Q W E Increase left/both/right volumes > Z X C Decrease left/both/right volumes > > You can only set left/right volume if the soundcard supports it for > that channel. This usually doesn't work e.g. for master, it usually > does for PCM. You can easily test out

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 28/10/2011 01:09, Harry Putnam wrote: Celejar writes: [...] Run a mixer (e.g., alsamixer) and check to make sure nothing's muted and that the volumes are set to reasonable levels. Egad, that was it, alsamixer showed the volume being really low. OK now I've got sound and happily listing

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/10/11 10:09, Harry Putnam wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > [...] > >> Run a mixer (e.g., alsamixer) and check to make sure nothing's muted >> and that the volumes are set to reasonable levels. > > Egad, that was it, alsamixer showed the volume being really low. > > OK now I've got sound a

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > One thing I don't see is a way to increase/decrease sound in the > separate speakers. > Only seems possible to increase/decrease both at once. Depending upon your sound driver there should be separate left and right controls. Check that they are not "locked together". Some

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Celejar writes: [...] > Run a mixer (e.g., alsamixer) and check to make sure nothing's muted > and that the volumes are set to reasonable levels. Egad, that was it, alsamixer showed the volume being really low. OK now I've got sound and happily listing to wbez One thing I don't see is a way

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Charlie writes: [...] > Florian Kulzer helped me to debug this a couple of years ago. Very > comprehensive and excellent run through, but this might be all you need: > > amixer set Master unmute That one seems to have went off without a hitch > amixer set PCM unmute amixer set PCM unmute ami

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-27 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:38:17 -0500 "Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com" suggested this: >I've purposely not used sound in my linux setups for yrs... never had >much need of sound... and only really needed it for my video editing >work which is done with Adobe tools and therefore all on windows. > >

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:38:17 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've purposely not used sound in my linux setups for yrs... never had > much need of sound... and only really needed it for my video editing > work which is done with Adobe tools and therefore all on windows. > > Anyway, cutting to the cha

Re: getting sound working?

2004-01-12 Thread Kent West
0debian user wrote: Hi! I am running Debian unstable with kernel image 2.2.18 How do I get my sounc card (CS 4281) working in Debian? Exactly what steps must I take? (the more explicit the better - I tried installing OSS and ALSA in past but they both failed) Regards, Zach I would first rec