Sound question?

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Worked like a champ!!

Thanks alot!!! This has bothered me for a long time. I wonder why oss 
does not make something like this a part of oss system??

Ralph

Auke Kok wrote:

>Hi,
>
>alsa is never needed, and tho people like it a lot, OSS is simple and
>works good enough for most people.
>
>Therefore a tip for OSS users:
>
>* most audio cards reset at boot and put something like 66% for all
>volume levels. This can be quite soft for most speaker setups and
>laptops. A solution is to increase the "Vol" or master volume at boot.
>
>* A simple 1-file program is cmix: "lin cmix" . cmix can store mixer
>levels in a file and restore them. Adding cmix to /etc/init.d/bootmisc
>with the proper mixer settings file will result in nice, consistent
>volume levels after boot. Alternatively, just call cmix to set the
>master volume: "cmix vol 90".
>
>sofar
>
>
>On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 16:50, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
>  
>
>>Florin,
>>Is it difficult to setup ALSA? What are the advantages?
>>
>>Ralph
>>
>>Florin Braescu wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>--- Ralph Crongeyer <rcrongeyer at rpicc.com> wrote:
>>>  
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>I have sound in kde (the login sound and cdplayer)
>>>>but the volume is 
>>>>lower than it is when I'm in the windows envirnment
>>>>(dule booting my 
>>>>laptop)? I looked into alsa but it is not installed.
>>>>However I do have alsa-lib and alsa-driver
>>>>installed.
>>>>So my question is how do I increase the volum level
>>>>of my system?
>>>>Do I need to install alsa and alsa-tools,
>>>>alsa-utils, libsndfile, fftw 
>>>>or anything else?
>>>>    
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Hi Ralph,
>>>
>>>You have to make a decision. It seems that now you
>>>have the oss kernel drivers installed. In this case
>>>alsa-lib and alsa-utils are of no use for you. So you
>>>can adjust the volume from ksound. If you decide to
>>>use alsa instead, (a better alternative if you ask me)
>>>then you can use alsamixer and you can save the
>>>default sound levels. 
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>  Florin
>>>
>>>
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