Sound card test?

[Michael Nowag]

Brian Astill wrote:

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>Hmm...  I have alsa-base and alsa-utils installed (in hoary).
>I tried alsctl which seemed to be happy, but achieved nothing.
>Alsa_conf, on my system, is a script called by ....(?)
>If you could help me with the (?) we might be in business!  :-)
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sorry, I meant alsamixer :) There are two applications : alsamixergui
and gnome-alsamixer which are pretty easy to use (the console version
won't work, don't ask me why) run one of those two with sudo and play
around with the different mute and volume buttons while playing some
music in xmms