I am a moron.....

ursusarctos · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:58 am Post subject: I am a moron.....

So I manage to spend the better part of a week struggling to get a SB Live Value working on my amd64 box....convinced that something was wrong with ALSA. After all, the machine wasn't making noise when I played soundfiles, right. So I recompiled the kernel...at least three times. Futzed with the mixer settings again, and again, and again. Still no sound...and no error messages to help out.

So I finally reconcile myself to pulling the card and trying it in another pci slot, or going back to onboard sound, or seeing if mandrake or suse knew how to make the card work. I reach into the mess of cabling behind my machine....and find a speaker wire.

Yep. I'd managed not to plug the speakers into the computer. And had convinced myself that it had to be the software's fault. For a week.

Damn.

taskara · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:04 am Post subject:

lesson to be learned?

linux is never wrong

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b1nd3n14l · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 80

I think I have a patch for that somewhere...
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bobbydole · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 31

oooh man that is too funny =D

stetar · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 16 Location: Australia

Love it.

Just started a new thread in Off the Wall. Time to fess up to stupid mistakes everyone.

plate · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:13 am Post subject:

No need to tell anyone, they've been confessing for months now.