Please permit me the following;
<RANT> When Alan Cox first introduced ALSA I was amazed. Why did
someone go to the trouble to write a sound program with all of the
drivers when OSS offered the same for a few dollars. I smelled
politics. What further astounded me and still does why write all of
that code and turn the damn thing off (Mute) by default? Must have
thought it cool to make people hunt around to find the knob. <END OF
RANT>
I have recently installed Fedora Core 3 on a new box which consist of an
Asus A7V880 MB, an Athlon XP 3200 (400 FSB) CPU, 1 GB of Kingston Value
Ram PC3200 DDR400, a Maxtor ATA 133 250 GB HD, a Sony DRU-510A DVD and
other goodies. Just yesterday I bought a set of Logitech X-530
speakers. Goin to hear some great sounds, huh?
Well it seems this great outfit only plays the system sounds, open a
file close a file, real interesting stuff.
I had previously purchased "SAMS Red Hat Linux Fedora 3 Unleashed as a
reference because the last time I fooled around with Red Hat was version
5.1, (I still have the boot disk) and I thought they may have made a few
improvements since then. They have but sound is not one of them.
I bought an OSS driver for $5.00 dollars back then and I heard sound.
Not now.
Anyhow, after checking the book, various man pages and shaking feathers
and rattling bones, I am no farther along than I was when I started.
If anyone can offer help I would appreciate it. Please don't tell me to
configure the sound card because I already have, I also have used the
alsamixer, saved same with alsactl store 0, read the man pages for
amixer(1), aplay(1) and arecord(1).
The only thing I surmise is that the Linux code must feel like a
stranger in paradise. After all, running on all of this new up to date
hardware when the guys who wrote the code were using 8086 and 8088
machines that were owned by a university must make the code feel out of
place.
All advise is welcome.
Paddy
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