no sound

I'm having some troubles with my soundcard in Debian. When using some command line program (for example mpg321), audio files seems to play correctly but I don't get any sound from my speakers. Is there somewhere some mixer, where one can adjust volume?

The second problem is that in X I cannot use sound at all. Currently I'm running KDE and when I try to change the audio device (for example from esd to ALSA) I just get different errors. Also none of the programs can play sound, but gives some error message about not succeeding to find/use audio driver.

In /dev/sndstat I have this:


Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.10rc3 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux host121 2.6.15-1-686 #1 Wed Jan 18 15:04:35 UTC 2006 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
VIA 82C686A/B rev20 with CS4299 at 0xb800, irq 5

Audio devices:
0: VIA 82C686A/B rev20 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Cirrus Logic CS4299 rev 4

Hi,

First make sure you have everything installed.

Do a:

apt-get install alsa-base

apt-get install alsa-oss

Then configure your soundcard:

alsaconf

To adjust/test it type:

alsamixer

Let's hear what happens?

Sincerely, Jørgen

Originally Posted by antiloaded Let's hear what happens?

What happens is that now the sounds work

Only problem is that KDE (aRTs?) won't play any sounds ('/dev/dsp is in use'). After turning off KDE sound server, sounds work. Is there any reason to use aRTs?

Also the microphone doesn't work: the sound level always returns to 0 after I've set it to 100 from alsamixer.


Anyway, now atleast I can hear some music.
Thank you very much

Hi,
Im glad it helped you out.

Remember to store your settings after you adjusted alsamixer:

alsactl store

Here some man. for alsa.
http://linuxreviews.org/man/alsamixer/

Have fun