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From: mike burrell <mikpos@mikpos.dyndns.org>
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Subject: ess solo-1 won't make noise
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i've installed the alsa drivers for the ess solo-1 board.  everything
installed properly, blah blah blah, but when i try "cat foo > /dev/dsp", i
get absolutely nothing.  the relevant part of my 'lsmod' (or 'cat
/proc/modules' if you will looks like this:

Module                  Size  Used by
snd-pcm1-oss           14004   0
snd-esssolo1            1828   0
snd-seq-midi            4900   0  [snd-esssolo1]
snd-seq                28588   0  [snd-seq-midi]
snd-timer               3596   0  [snd-seq]
snd-midi               14668   0  [snd-esssolo1 snd-seq-midi]
snd-synth               1260   0  [snd-esssolo1]
snd-es1938              3832   0  [snd-esssolo1]
snd-pcm1               17228   0  [snd-pcm1-oss snd-es1938]
snd-pcm                 9068   0  [snd-pcm1-oss snd-esssolo1 snd-pcm1]
snd-mixer              13428   0  [snd-pcm1-oss snd-esssolo1 snd-es1938]
snd                    40832   0  [snd-pcm1-oss snd-esssolo1 snd-seq-midi
snd-seq snd-timer snd-midi snd-synth snd-es1938 snd-pcm1 snd-pcm snd-mixer]

and, as you can see, pcm1-oss is loaded, so /dev/dsp should be good...anyway
everything seems to indicate that everything's hunkidory (minor 3 (dsp) is
listed in /proc/asound/oss-devices, etc etc), and i've even tried cat'ing to
/dev/snd/pcm00.  a mystery.

EXCEPT
my 'amixer' output looks like this:

CLI ALSA Mixer v0.11 (c) 1998 Adnans

Master          100% (  0.00dB) : 100% (  0.00dB)
3D Space        0  % (  0.00dB) : 0  % (  0.00dB) Mute
Synth           100% ( 12.00dB) : 100% ( 12.00dB)
PCM             0  % (-94.50dB) : 0  % (-94.50dB)
PCM             100% ( 12.00dB) : 100% ( 12.00dB)
Line-In         100% ( 12.00dB) : 100% ( 12.00dB)
MIC             100% ( 12.00dB) : 100% ( 12.00dB)
Aux A           100% ( 12.00dB) : 100% ( 12.00dB)
Aux B           100% ( 12.00dB) : 100% ( 12.00dB)

i'm thinking that the first listed PCM (being at 0%), might be what's
preventing it from making any noise.  but any time i try to set PCM with
amixer, only the second 'PCM' gets changed.  so is there a way in amixer to
change one of these fields without referring to it by name?  or maybe i need
to get a different program to do this?

also '3D Space' seems to be unchangeable (no matter what i do it's 0% and
muted).  this doesn't seem like it would be much of a concern, but is it?

thx for your time

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