> The volume controls in kmix (GUI) seemed to work once I un-muted > everything with alsamixer. How all devices became muted (set to > '[Off]') is beyond me. It would be nice if the sound card detection > utility could notify the user that some/all devices are muted. Or, at > the very least, inform the user about alsamixer. I tried sndconfig, > which apparently no longer works. This is the default behavior for ALSA. You can either use the curses-based alsamixer or the GUI gnome-alsamixer to unmute the channels. ALSA is the standard sound interface for 2.6.x kernels. For more information about ALSA, see the project page at: http://www.alsa-project.org/ /mde/ just my two cents . . . .
