[ltp] Mwave Modem Monitor

[Paul B Schroeder]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:49:35 +0100 (BST)
> Mike Taylor <mike@seatbooker.net> wrote:
>
> > Weird.  I emailed Paul Schroeder of IBM's Linux Technology Center
> > about this, and his response was that it Just Worked for him and
> > always has!  (It's on his suggestion that I mailed this list.)
>
> Given another poster's comment in this thread, you might want to ask him
> if he's got sound drivers loaded during the tests, and if so which ones.
Nope...  And I'm afraid I'm probably not of much help WRT a modem-sound
conflict since I've never even bothered to set up the sound on my
machine (600E)..

>
> I've got the standard kernel cs4232 drivers loaded, and another poster in
> this thread is using the ALSA drivers, but reports that his modem makes
> noise only because the rest of his sound setup isn't working!
>
> The next logical test seems to be to cold-boot the Thinkpad with the
> sound drivers disabled - and see if we get modem noise.
>
> [For anyone else reading, my machine is a Thinkpad 600 running RH 7.3.]
>
> > > Does it have something to do with the sound card's mixer settings?
>
> > No.  I always have the mixer up loud so I can hear my MP3s.
>
> I meant more that maybe there was one particular slider that affected the
> modem (as that's how it was on an older desktop machine I had with an
> internal modem).
>
> I just tried all the sliders available via aumix (the command-line mixer)
> and got nothing from the mwave.  I *did* verify that the microphone
> works, though. :)
>
> Given the choice between modem sounds and all other system sounds, I'll
> take a quiet modem, though!
>
>

-- 

Paul B Schroeder
paulsch@haywired.net



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