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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:37:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: No mixer will work on my system
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On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Jason Wells wrote:

> I have unsuccessfully tried to run a few different mixers in X. The
> reponses from two of them are included below.

> Here is the output of mixer.
> 
> jcwells@s8-37-26$ mixer vol 50
> SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK: Device not configured

If that doesn't work, nothing will.

What does `cat /dev/sndstat' report?

Do you have the sound options compiled into your kernel and the sound
cards detected properly?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major