[gobolinux-users] bemoaning the lack of sound

[Isaac Dupree]

Nathan Middleton wrote:
> Just a note about mixers and alsa.  Aumix is a good package to install
> too for sound testing.  You know sound *is* working if sound apps
> don't complain but there's no sound (generally).

> Aumix allows you to do something as simple as "aumix -v 50" which
> turns the main volume up to 50%, and you you can query sound with
> "aumix -q", getting a list of all channels with their balance and
> volumes. As was mentioned, by default you'll notice the main volume is
> always 0.


Thank you all for your help!

--> upgraded to ALSA-Lib and -Utils 1.0.15, with no immediate effect.
--> installed aumix, saw volume at 0, changed to 50, was able to hear sound!

Even after rebooting, I still get that "no soundcards found" in dmesg. I 
guess it doesn't mean anything.

The volume-change isn't persistent across reboots for me.  Maybe I'll 
put aumix -v 50 in /etc/BootScripts/BootUp.  (After all, I think I would 
rather configure my sound in a file than have it be implicitly 
persistent over reboot in a file somewhere)

odd that aumix is such an old program (looks like last release is 5 
years ago), but seems to work better than anything "official" I know about

Isaac