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On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 17:35 +0100, Tony Sumner wrote: > > Welcome to the mess that is Linux audio. > > Thanks, Kai. I agree with that. I had a fight with ALSA a while ago > which I lost, which is why I have been using OSS. > > > I advise you focus on getting ALSA working instead of OSS which is > > considered legacy stuff. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture > > > http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA > > Thanks, Keith. I have removed OSS, installed ALSA, found a driver (cmipci), > done modprobe snd-cmipci, adjusted mute in alsamixer and I can now aplay > a wav file. As before that is about the only thing I can do. No sound from > CD, none from a .wmv file via movie player, nothing from the internet. In > other words I am no further forward. I suspect that there is some component > of linux audio that is not working and that does not depend on which sound > system I have, ALSA or OSS. > > Tony > Have you looked at the input connectors in alsa mixer? have you the alsamixer-gui? and have you got plulse audio? as that is in "series " with you inputs you have to join all the dots in a straight line as it were to pipe the sound through the system. Any dead end and you get no sound! also are you KDE or Gnome? -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq