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Thanks again to everyone in the group who gave such detailed advice on
choosing a distro and pointing out some things I did not understand.

I am writing this on my Linux box - Fedora Yarrow - which is a little
sluggish so I have to figure out how to make this Gnome environment a
little speedier (or maybe change to a faster desktop).

The only real problem I am having is with my sound card.

I have tried to find advice on the web for configuring it but
practically every link I have found either didn't answer the question of
how to get it started or pointed to a now defunct article by Steve
Crowder on how to configure the CS4236B.

Fedora isn't the first distro I tried on this machine. I started with
BLAG then Knoppix now Fedora. I would have settled for either of the
first two if they had recognized the sound card but as it is I figured
by the third time I did an install and the card was recognized but
nothing configured it was going to come down to me.

If anyone has a resource on the web were I can find the instructions for
getting this one device working it would be appreciated.

Leo.

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:39:50 -0400, Leo <leoanddona@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The only real problem I am having is with my sound card.
>
> I have tried to find advice on the web for configuring it but
> practically every link I have found either didn't answer the question of
> how to get it started or pointed to a now defunct article by Steve
> Crowder on how to configure the CS4236B.
>
> Fedora isn't the first distro I tried on this machine. I started with
> BLAG then Knoppix now Fedora. I would have settled for either of the
> first two if they had recognized the sound card but as it is I figured
> by the third time I did an install and the card was recognized but
> nothing configured it was going to come down to me.
>
> If anyone has a resource on the web were I can find the instructions for
> getting this one device working it would be appreciated.
>
> Leo.
>
Leo: try http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...?module=cs4236

Larry Gagnon

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Leo wrote:
> Thanks again to everyone in the group who gave such detailed advice on
> choosing a distro and pointing out some things I did not understand.
>
> I am writing this on my Linux box - Fedora Yarrow - which is a little
> sluggish so I have to figure out how to make this Gnome environment a
> little speedier (or maybe change to a faster desktop).
>
> The only real problem I am having is with my sound card.
>
> I have tried to find advice on the web for configuring it but
> practically every link I have found either didn't answer the question of
> how to get it started or pointed to a now defunct article by Steve
> Crowder on how to configure the CS4236B.
>
> Fedora isn't the first distro I tried on this machine. I started with
> BLAG then Knoppix now Fedora. I would have settled for either of the
> first two if they had recognized the sound card but as it is I figured
> by the third time I did an install and the card was recognized but
> nothing configured it was going to come down to me.
>
> If anyone has a resource on the web were I can find the instructions for
> getting this one device working it would be appreciated.
>
> Leo.
>

I forgot to mention - when I click on the speaker icon on the bottom
right of the screen the error message reads: Couldn't open mixer device
/dev/sound/mixer

When I browse the hardware the sound card is identified.

I have tried going into sound preferences and setting "enable sound
server startup" to see if that will work.

Leo

It could be the protection problems on the /dev/mixer device, or maybe you
don't belong to the audio group.

/Icebiker

"Leo" <leoanddona@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fLyec.60030$KE5.918545@weber.videotron.net...
> Leo wrote:
> > Thanks again to everyone in the group who gave such detailed advice on
> > choosing a distro and pointing out some things I did not understand.
> >
> > I am writing this on my Linux box - Fedora Yarrow - which is a little
> > sluggish so I have to figure out how to make this Gnome environment a
> > little speedier (or maybe change to a faster desktop).
> >
> > The only real problem I am having is with my sound card.
> >
> > I have tried to find advice on the web for configuring it but
> > practically every link I have found either didn't answer the question of
> > how to get it started or pointed to a now defunct article by Steve
> > Crowder on how to configure the CS4236B.
> >
> > Fedora isn't the first distro I tried on this machine. I started with
> > BLAG then Knoppix now Fedora. I would have settled for either of the
> > first two if they had recognized the sound card but as it is I figured
> > by the third time I did an install and the card was recognized but
> > nothing configured it was going to come down to me.
> >
> > If anyone has a resource on the web were I can find the instructions for
> > getting this one device working it would be appreciated.
> >
> > Leo.
> >
>
> I forgot to mention - when I click on the speaker icon on the bottom
> right of the screen the error message reads: Couldn't open mixer device
> /dev/sound/mixer
>
> When I browse the hardware the sound card is identified.
>
> I have tried going into sound preferences and setting "enable sound
> server startup" to see if that will work.
>
> Leo
>
>

Larry Gagnon wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:39:50 -0400, Leo <leoanddona@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>The only real problem I am having is with my sound card.
>>
>>I have tried to find advice on the web for configuring it but
>>practically every link I have found either didn't answer the question of
>>how to get it started or pointed to a now defunct article by Steve
>>Crowder on how to configure the CS4236B.
>>
>>Fedora isn't the first distro I tried on this machine. I started with
>>BLAG then Knoppix now Fedora. I would have settled for either of the
>>first two if they had recognized the sound card but as it is I figured
>>by the third time I did an install and the card was recognized but
>>nothing configured it was going to come down to me.
>>
>>If anyone has a resource on the web were I can find the instructions for
>>getting this one device working it would be appreciated.
>>
>>Leo.
>>
>
> Leo: try http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...?module=cs4236
>
> Larry Gagnon
>
Hi Larry,

Thank you for the link. A real learning experience. Got through it all
until the part where I had to make file and discovered that while I was
doing my install I deliberately deselected programming stuff (I don't
code other than PHP) so I didn't have a C compiler to make the file
Just too funny.

Oh well back to installing again.

Leo

Icebiker wrote:
> It could be the protection problems on the /dev/mixer device, or maybe you
> don't belong to the audio group.
>
> /Icebiker
>
> "Leo" <leoanddona@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:fLyec.60030$KE5.918545@weber.videotron.net...
>
>>Leo wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks again to everyone in the group who gave such detailed advice on
>>>choosing a distro and pointing out some things I did not understand.
>>>
>>>I am writing this on my Linux box - Fedora Yarrow - which is a little
>>>sluggish so I have to figure out how to make this Gnome environment a
>>>little speedier (or maybe change to a faster desktop).
>>>
>>>The only real problem I am having is with my sound card.
>>>
>>>I have tried to find advice on the web for configuring it but
>>>practically every link I have found either didn't answer the question of
>>>how to get it started or pointed to a now defunct article by Steve
>>>Crowder on how to configure the CS4236B.
>>>
>>>Fedora isn't the first distro I tried on this machine. I started with
>>>BLAG then Knoppix now Fedora. I would have settled for either of the
>>>first two if they had recognized the sound card but as it is I figured
>>>by the third time I did an install and the card was recognized but
>>>nothing configured it was going to come down to me.
>>>
>>>If anyone has a resource on the web were I can find the instructions for
>>>getting this one device working it would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Leo.
>>>
>>
>>I forgot to mention - when I click on the speaker icon on the bottom
>>right of the screen the error message reads: Couldn't open mixer device
>>/dev/sound/mixer
>>
>>When I browse the hardware the sound card is identified.
>>
>>I have tried going into sound preferences and setting "enable sound
>>server startup" to see if that will work.
>>
>>Leo
>>
>>
>
>
>

I think I belong to the audio group because I am running as root at the
moment. I know I shouldn't run as root, but this is just while I am
trying to sort this stuff out.

First truly serious run at dedicating a machine to this environment. Now
if I can only find where I installed Quanta to

Have a nice day

Leo