Re: [SLUG] Sarasota Meeting: If you attend, read this.

From: mark@bish.net
Date: Thu Nov 25 2004 - 12:12:15 EST


Actually, I hadn't even looked at his sound problem yet. I was busy
walking around the room talking to everyone.

If you bring it to the Jan meeting, I'll take a look at it. But leave the
printers at home.

Speaking of which, do we have an alternate location for the Dec meeting?

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, John wrote:

>>
>> Still haven't any sound, grumble, grumble . . . Next meeting, I guess.
>>
>
> In your quest for sound, the gurus probably covered this but:
>
> If you are getting the sound error message immediately after logging
> onto a session, try this:
>
> In terminal session, change to root (su root, password)
>
> Run alsaconf
>
> Then, in the /etc directory, get rid of the modprobe.conf file:
> ( mv modprobe.conf modprobe.conf.bak )
>
> Reboot (I can't remember whether starting a new KDE session is
> sufficient, so reboot the machine to be safe.
>
> If you don't get the error message any more, but still don't hear
> sound, check all your mixer levels.
>
> Use the test button in the control center/sound section to see how you're doing.
>
> If this works, NOTE that running alsaconf will restore the
> modprobe.conf file and break your sound.
>
> This works on some machines I have--don't know what you're running,
> but since you implied that it was an obscure solution, I thought I'd
> toss this one at you.
>
> John
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