[orca-list] Orca, problem with sound card

[Helios <heliooos gmail com>]

Hi Nick,
I am not able to help you with the external synth, but in my opinion, there should be no problem to solve the problem with sound card. My brother has MSI laptop with Realtek HD audio card (Azalia), which also had this problem in Pclinuxos 2007. But after updating ALSA the problem was solved (in new Pclinuxos 2009-1 no action needed, works out of the box). He is running Pclinuxos 2009-1 with Opensuse 11.1 in dualboot but I think in Ubuntu it could be similar.

Helios

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 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:45:30 +0100
 From: <Nick Adamson generaldynamics uk com>
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 Hi All.
 
 I'm trying to use my old Dolphin Apollo 2 external serial speech
 synthesizer with ORCA. (I work in an office and the laptop has a daft
 sound card that when you plug the headphones in it doesn't mute the
 speakers.)
 
 I've plugged it in but now what do I do? (sorry, I'm still getting my
 head around Linux.)
 I'm using Ubuntu hardy.
 
 I had a quick look on the ORCA FAQ but couldn't see anything about this.
 
 Any ideas gratefully received.
 Cheers.
 Nick.
 
 
 Nick Adamson
 Software Engineer
 General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited
 
 Email: nick adamson generaldynamics uk com
 Tel: 01495 236467
 http://www.generaldynamics.uk.com
 
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