/etc/init.d/alsa

hudsonhauck · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 2:21 am Post subject: /etc/init.d/alsa

Why do I not have this file: /etc/init.d/alsa ? Yes, I've emerged alsa and alsa-utils
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alec · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Here

You shuold have an /etc/init.d/alsasound if you've emerged everything properly.

hudsonhauck · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 7:25 am Post subject:

Yes, I do have /etc/init.d/alsasound, however, when I run "rc-update add alsa default", it looks for /etc/init.d/alsa, which I do not have. should I just type "rc-update add alsasound default"
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Guest · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 2:47 pm Post subject:

The Desktop Guide is horribly out of date - it worked for the 1.0 release candidates but not much after that.

Yes, you should just type "rc-update add alsasound default". rc-update looks for the script in the /etc/init.d/ directory, so you could rename alsasound to foo and do a rc-update add foo default and the alsa stuff would be started.

Guest · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 3:06 pm Post subject:

hudsonhauck · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 7:34 pm Post subject:

Cool, that worked! Now I have sound coming out. However, it is only out of 1 of my 4.1 speakers, and it is not good quality at all. How do I fix that? I am guessing with amixer...but I don't know how to use it.
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BillyD · Guru Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 323 Location: Australia

I think you can adjust the sound for all of your channels using alsamixer (type alsamixer at the command line). The portion of the desktop guide on the gentoo site is still valid as far as using amixer and alsamixer go.