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Subject: Re: no sound with 4.8 & KDE
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Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> writes:

> oremanj@get-linux.org wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:44:03PM -0500, Walter wrote:
> > Try setting both "vol" and "pcm" to 100:100 using the mixer(8)
> > utility.
> > For me at least, my soundcard is *extremely* soft unless I use 100%
> > volume. Sample commands:
> > # mixer vol 100:100
> > # mixer pcm 100:100
> > $ xmms &
> 
> Thanks, but that didn't work either.  (I know the
> speakers work because when I recently had Win 98
> on the HD it always made that little Windows
> orchestration when it started up.)

Okay, let's go back to the basics.  
What does "dmesg|grep pcm" show?