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On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 12:55, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: |
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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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Perhaps you should file a bug with us at bugs.gentoo.org and we can |
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either look into it or send it upstream to the ALSA folks. |
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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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The Direct Rendering Guide is designed to fix this. If there are |
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problems with it, please do file bugs. (I know it's out of date at the |
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moment, I'm updating it soon.) |
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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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This is the kind of thing for which it could be a good idea for us to |
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provide sane, working defaults. A big reason distributors exist is to |
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provide integration. |
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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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Yeah, XKB is really obscure and mostly poorly documented anywhere one |
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goes. We should check into that. |
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Thanks, Mike! |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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