audio problem

[sunny-O0WJhd4tT3hg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org (Laura Conrad)]

>>>>> "dan" == dan moylan <jdm-LPA1KyJyIuz1P9xLtpHBDw at public.gmane.org> writes:

    >> In my experience, just not sounding usually means the mixer
    >> has a screwed up setting.  Get a good mixer -- I usually use
    >> gnome-alsa-mixer on ubuntu.  There are several check boxes
    >> with incomprehensible names, and they need to be set right,
    >> and nobody can tell you what "right" is.  Set a file playing
    >> and check and uncheck boxes until you can hear it.

    dan> don't know that i'm using a mixer. play is part of sox, and
    dan> just runs from the command line.  you see it clunking along
    dan> through the file, but nothing comes out.

You probably aren't using a mixer, but alsa is using settings that you
can change if you do use a mixer.  One of the things that happens is
that you update Ubuntu and some app designer has implemented some
defaults that work for him or her.

    >> It would really be nice if LINUX sound would some day work
    >> as well as many other things on LINUX do.

    dan> it used to work just fine -- oh, well.

When it works, it does usually work just fine.  The number of times it
stops working without my being aware that I've changed anything is
what I'm complaining about.

I think the thing to think about is why you're getting a system beep
but not music.  And the only way I know to think about it is to run a
mixer.

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