[Rosegarden-user] ATTN: Silvan

[eagle99 <ea...@se...>]

Silvan wrote:

The first thing to try is to make sure ALSA is actually working.  My =
usual=20
test for this is

aplay -l

My results :
card 0: card0 [ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)], device 0: es-1938-1946 [ESS Solo-1]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1


Do an lsmod and see what you've got.  I no longer remember what the OSS=20
modules are called, but if you have something that looks sound-related =
and=20
doesn't have an "snd" in it, with the exception of "soundcore," then you =
may=20
have trouble.  My ALSA stuff looks like:

How do I do this? I'm fairly new to linux.


If you have the modules loaded, and you're getting something useful =
looking=20
from aplay -l, then the next trick is to check that the mixer isn't set =
at 0. =20
Try turning up the volume with alsamixer, aumix, KMix, etc.

Both alsamixer and Kmix show  volumes at 85.


Once you're certain the volume is up, try to aplay -l a .wav file.

If you pass all of those tests, then sound is working, and your problem =
lies=20
elsewhere.

Let's establish that you've gotten this far before I get into ways that =
other=20
stuff might be misbehaving.

If I play an audio file (mp3) the system sound is very good--but midis =
are terrible. What=20
suggestions do you have for improving midi sound? Midi is what I'm most =
interested in.

Thanks for your help.


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