Happy Easter and Jethro Tull

[JoeHill]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:33:46 -0400
Lennart Sorensen disseminated the following:

> > I get [OK]'s for everything at startup, ALSA loads ok, everything looks good
> > to
> > go. No apps complain about not finding a sound device, AFAICT, but nothing
> > from
> > Beep, MPlayer, ROX MusicBox, GnomeCD, etc.
> > 
> > How to further troubleshoot this?
> 
> Try using the line in or head phone or mic jack for the speakers.  If
> that fixes it, you ahve a 'quirky' ac97 chipset, which alsa at least has
> a parameter that is supposed to fix.  Blame intel for redefining ac97
> too many times.

WOOOT! Thanks Lennart! You know, it's funny, I had tried all of the jacks
previously, but in the meantime I had also run 'alsaconf', so decided to try
your suggestion, and BINGO!

...now Leonard Cohen's croaking monotone is coming out beautifully:

"Everybody knows the dice are loaded,
Everybody knows the good guys lost..."

Thanks again. I owe you a beer. :-)

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