Re: No sound

randhir phagura wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed xmms-1.2.10 on my Pentium-3 machine; compaq presario 
> laptop, with all its dependencies except 'libmikmod'.
> 
> The 'lspci' command produces the following output:
> 00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive 
> (rev 02)
> 
> In the kernel, I have included the following:
<snip>
> In the PCI devices I have includede the driver for ES1969 Solo-1
> 
> Why am I not getting the sound in linux, whereas on the same system, 
> dualbooting in WinXP I am getting excellent sound?

have you unmuted the mixer? alsa is by default muted on all channels, 
you will need to run alsamixer, or some other program to unmute.

then run alsactl store to save the mixer settings - and, depending on 
your distro, the mixer will be set to your stored values on boot.

Cheers,
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