Re: [Alsa-user] Parts of alsa not working??

[Casey J H. <ta...@pc...>]

Thank you to:
Carlos Garcia Argos,
Ingo Strauch, and
Bill Unruh

To Carlos: made the external player change as you suggested, not tested yet=
=2E..
To Bill: as both Carlos and Ingo said, that is exactly what I have, and hav=
e=20
done...

Thank you Carlos and Ingo for the assistance...

To respond to Bill:
> What is a boot cheat code? This is not a game you are playing, but an OS =
you=20
are installing.

A boot cheat-code is used during low-level OS initialization, to activate, =
or=20
de-activate, certain parts of the "auto-configuration" modules, force certa=
in=20
screen resolutions to either the server, or display manager, and in some=20
cases, allows for troubleshooting certain hardware problems, by the use of=
=20
activation, or non-activation of selected hardware, during the booting=20
sequence.

>=A0What is "hard drive installed within that boot"? Anyway things work so =
I=20
guess neither of us cares.=20

A "hard drive installed within that boot" - means that if you boot the CD u=
p=20
with specific "cheat-codes" - and then run the hard drive installer for=20
Knoppix, that "Knoppix" will be installed with those "boot command=20
parameters" set in the boot for your hard drive installation. Thus, if a=20
person can find a way, through getting their system booted up, by use of=20
these boot codes for the CD, it is then carried to a HDD install, as well.

>
> Why you would be using Debian unstable on a production system which was a=
=20
critical part of your work I do not know.

Good question Bill, and the answer is really, two of them...
(1) Knoppix is what I had, and worked with for more than 6 months now. So,=
=20
instead of throwing out the bath-water with the baby, I kept, and knew I=20
could keep, Knoppix as a hard drive installed OS, and not have to get=20
something else, and re-learn a different way of doing what I already have=20
learned to do with what I already have.
(2) Knoppix, even if it "IS" unstable, and testing, is by far, more stable,=
=20
and working than any version I already have of "Windows" - so, to scrub=20
Windows, I needed something else to use as a OS, and Knoppix was by far,=20
better, even with its "quirks" than the Windows I was using. I can't really=
=20
explain it Bill, but dealing with Windows, for me, was more of a pain, and =
a=20
constant "crash-prone" OS, that even with the problems I am having with=20
Debian/Knoppix, is by far, much less "hell" than with Windows.

As for why some information was not provided, and other information was: So=
me=20
of it was "background", and other information was "needed", to be provided.=
=20
"Background" information was provided unless "someone" had done the same=20
thing, and possibly, found a way to get it to work. "Needed" information wa=
s=20
provided to allow "anyone" to possible deduce a resolve of the problem.

Appears that the "background" information did not so much apply to you, but=
=20
was able to be used by "others", and the "needed" information was more=20
applicable to you, and to "others"

Anyway, thanks Bill for the assistance. ALSA is a lot newer to me, than=20
Knoppix/Debian is. As you said: "Anyway things work so I guess neither of u=
s=20
cares." -=3D- I care... I wanted to provide as much information about what =
I=20
have, and have done, as well as, what this "small town girl" hasn't done, o=
r=20
thought of. I appreciate the help, no flame intended here, or in this reply=
,=20
just information. I didn't know you needed to add anything to the boot=20
scripts. With the base sound provided with this OS, it just remembered your=
=20
sound volume settings for you, and upon returning to the OS, it simply re-s=
et=20
them for you. I didn't even know about the alsactl commands. Thank you for=
=20
enlightening me :)

Ms. Casey Heshler


On Saturday 20 March 2004 12:35, Carlos Garcia Argos wrote:
> > From: Casey J Heshler <ta...@pc...>
> > To: als...@li...
> > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:04:58 -0600
> > Subject: [Alsa-user] Parts of alsa not working??
> >
> > I can not get any Sound Notifications from KDE, assuming I need to point
> > KDE to an external player (aplay), this can be because I can't locate
> > aplay.
>
> I had the same problem in the beginning, but solved it pointing KDE to
> the external player artsplay. You should have it already installed.
>
> Replying to Bill Unruh: a sound notification is a sound played on an
> event, such as KDE initialization, KDE shutdown, critical error, new
> email, etc.
>
>
>
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