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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>On the other side, what is really hard to configure? Where can we |
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>improve how we set things up when programs are emerged? |
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Don't know that this is really something that can be fixed, but it took |
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me quite a long while to track down the cause, and it certainly made for |
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a rather poor setup experience. |
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I'm running an nForce III AMD64 machine, and it turns out that the |
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particular on-board sound-card for this machine has a number of "IEC |
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958" channels which, when un-muted *disable* (normal, analogue) sound |
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output. That is, it is necessary to *mute* them in alsamixer in order |
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to produce any output. Since someone who's trying to get sound working |
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is generally not going to *mute* a channel, there's nothing in the |
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interface to tell you how to solve the problem. |
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Card: NVidia nForce3 |
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Chip: C-Media Electronics CMI9739 |
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Item: IEC958 Capture Valid [Off] |
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I realise that muting particular channels for ALSA is not likely |
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something that can be addressed in an ebuild, but since you asked. |
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Other things that take quite a bit of work (still working on some of |
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them, for that matter) include: |
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* Trying to get a Radeon 7500 video card setup to render via DRI in |
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xorg took at least 5 or 6 iterations of compiling kernels, |
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modifying xorg.conf, rebooting etceteras. |
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* Setting up a Wacom Graphire USB tablet so that it doesn't "stick" |
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a few pixels from the edge of the screen (unsolved as of yet). |
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* Setting up Mozilla Thunderbird to launch Mozilla Firefox on |
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clicking a link in an email (I had to both create a shell script |
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and manually edit prefs.js to get this working (once I found the |
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instructions on how to do it)). |
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* Eliminating the (right-ctrl)+shift "compose" keyboard shortcut in |
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the xorg "Microsoft" keyboard mapping (documented here a while ago). |
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Have fun, |
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Mike |
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Mike C. Fletcher |
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Designer, VR Plumber, Coder |
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http://www.vrplumber.com |
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http://blog.vrplumber.com |
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