[PlanetCCRMA] Getting started, but getting nowhere

[Ken Smith]

To avoid you getting your head blown off with noise Alsa mutes the sound by
default. Call up the mixer and unmute the sound. There are also directions
on the website that describe how to make sure the right sound modules are
loading. If unmuting the sound does not fix the problem then that's the next
thing to check.

I'll be taking a SB live out of my system and putting in a 1010 in the next
week or so I'm interested in how you get on. It appears that many folks on
this list use 1010's with PlanetCCRMA just fine.

Hope that helps

Seasons Greetings from the UK
 
Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU [mailto:planetccrma-
> admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU] On Behalf Of D. R. Evans
> Sent: 24 December 2005 18:49
> To: PlanetCCRMA@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Getting started, but getting nowhere
> 
> I have an Athlon X64 3500+ system, and can't get it to do anything
> useful with PlanetCCRMA :-(
> 
> 1. I originally loaded 64-bit Mandriva 2006.0 on the system (since I'm
> a long-time Mandrake/Mandriva user), to make sure that everything
> worked.
> 
> 2. I added a 1010LT and played around a bit with ardour, hydrogen,
> alsaplayer, jack, etc., and everything seemed to behave sensibly.
> 
> 3. Satisfied that the hardware was all working as it should, I removed
> MDV 64-bit 2006.0 from the computer and installed 32-bit PlanetaCCRMA
> FC3, since I wanted a distro optimised for audio and one that would be
> more easily kept current than MDV.
> 
> 4. As far as I could tell, the installation went fine. At least, there
> were no obvious errors.
> 
> 5. OK, so the first test is to try to play a CD. No sound :-(
> 
> 6. Completely unfamiliar with Gnome, I have spent about an hour trying
> to figure out how to get sound (ANY sound) out of the system and have
> failed.
> 
> 7. Figuring that someone here must be using the FC3 PlanetCCRMA distro
> and a 1010LT, I figured that rather than  getting more and more angry
> and frustrated, the time had come to ask for help. What _exactly_ do I
> have to do to simply get a CD to play and produce audio? (I'm sure
> that Gnome is a fine desktop manager, but as a long-time KDE user I am
> finding it very time-consuming to figure out how to do even simple
> things; so when I say "exactly" I do mean that. )
> 
> (I've tried all the analogue output leads on the 1010LT; there seems
> to be no audio on any of them. I have no idea where the audio is
> supposed to be routed to by default [under MDV 2006.0, it simply came
> out of analogue channels 1 and 2; I didn't have to do anything at all
> to make it all work])
> 
> Thanks for any help that anyone might be able to offer.
> 
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