Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It seems every time I do a install, I have to unmute the sound with both alsa and Kmix to get sound. I assume alsa controls the card itself and kmix is sort of like software. You may have hit something similar here. If even one thing is muted, no sound. Finding them all is fun tho. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It seems every time I do a install, I have to unmute the sound with both alsa and Kmix to get sound. I assume alsa controls the card itself and kmix is sort of like software. You may have hit something similar here. If even one thing is muted, no sound. Finding them all is fun tho. Dale :-) :-) I had all the channels unmuted. I ran alsamixer and gnome-volume-control to unmute and to verify, but still no sound. In the /etc/make.conf I have ALSA_CARDS=AC97 set, but I don't think that matters according to the documentation.
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It seems every time I do a install, I have to unmute the sound with both alsa and Kmix to get sound. I assume alsa controls the card itself and kmix is sort of like software. You may have hit something similar here. If even one thing is muted, no sound. Finding them all is fun tho. Dale :-) :-) I had all the channels unmuted. I ran alsamixer and gnome-volume-control to unmute and to verify, but still no sound. In the /etc/make.conf I have ALSA_CARDS=AC97 set, but I don't think that matters according to the documentation. Does lspci -k show it is using some sort of driver? Mine for example shows this: 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 069a Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel If yours doesn't show a kernel driver in use, then it is likely a driver problem. If it does show one, make sure it is the correct one. I usually use this as a guide: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ Just run the lspci -n command and paste it in there. It works well. If it shows it is loading the correct driver, something is muted somewhere or maybe it is as simple as you have the speakers plugged into the wrong plug. I did that once on my first build. I had two green plugs. Sort of got the wrong one. ;-) I can't think of anything else at the moment. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On 01/23/2011 07:20 AM, Dale wrote: dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It seems every time I do a install, I have to unmute the sound with both alsa and Kmix to get sound. I assume alsa controls the card itself and kmix is sort of like software. You may have hit something similar here. If even one thing is muted, no sound. Finding them all is fun tho. Dale :-) :-) I had all the channels unmuted. I ran alsamixer and gnome-volume-control to unmute and to verify, but still no sound. In the /etc/make.conf I have ALSA_CARDS=AC97 set, but I don't think that matters according to the documentation. Does lspci -k show it is using some sort of driver? Mine for example shows this: 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 069a Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel If yours doesn't show a kernel driver in use, then it is likely a driver problem. If it does show one, make sure it is the correct one. I usually use this as a guide: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ Just run the lspci -n command and paste it in there. It works well. If it shows it is loading the correct driver, something is muted somewhere or maybe it is as simple as you have the speakers plugged into the wrong plug. I did that once on my first build. I had two green plugs. Sort of got the wrong one. ;-) I can't think of anything else at the moment. Dale :-) :-) It looks like it's got a driver from the following: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 The full output is below. # lspci -k 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb Host Bridge (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: agpgart-amd64 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb LPC Bridge (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce 250Gb PCI System Management (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd Kernel modules: ohci-hcd 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd Kernel modules: ohci-hcd 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd Kernel modules: ehci-hcd 00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK8S Ethernet Controller (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: forcedeth Kernel modules: forcedeth 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallel ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: AMD_IDE Kernel modules: ata_generic, pata_acpi, pata_amd 00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Serial ATA Controller (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: sata_nv Kernel modules: ata_generic, pata_acpi, sata_nv 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1) Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 07:20 AM, Dale wrote: dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It seems every time I do a install, I have to unmute the sound with both alsa and Kmix to get sound. I assume alsa controls the card itself and kmix is sort of like software. You may have hit something similar here. If even one thing is muted, no sound. Finding them all is fun tho. Dale :-) :-) I had all the channels unmuted. I ran alsamixer and gnome-volume-control to unmute and to verify, but still no sound. In the /etc/make.conf I have ALSA_CARDS=AC97 set, but I don't think that matters according to the documentation. Does lspci -k show it is using some sort of driver? Mine for example shows this: 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 069a Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel If yours doesn't show a kernel driver in use, then it is likely a driver problem. If it does show one, make sure it is the correct one. I usually use this as a guide: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ Just run the lspci -n command and paste it in there. It works well. If it shows it is loading the correct driver, something is muted somewhere or maybe it is as simple as you have the speakers plugged into the wrong plug. I did that once on my first build. I had two green plugs. Sort of got the wrong one. ;-) I can't think of anything else at the moment. Dale :-) :-) It looks like it's got a driver from the following: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 The full output is below. # lspci -k SNIP 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 From that, I would think it is working driver and hardware wise, key word is think. The only things I can think of is something somewhere is muted or plugged up wrong. Do you have something like this: root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 420 Jan 22 00:44 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4380 Jan 22 00:45 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 22 00:44 by-path crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 10 Jan 22 00:44 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 19 Jan 22 00:44 controlC1 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 9 Jan 22 00:44 hwC0D0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 18 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 17 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D1 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 16 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D2 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 15 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D3 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D0c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 7 Jan 23 06:37 pcmC0D0p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 6 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D1c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D1p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 4 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D2c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 14 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D3p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 13 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D7p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 12 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D8p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 11 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D9p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 3 Jan 22 00:44 seq crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 2 Jan 22 00:44 timer root@fireball / # Yours may vary a bit so it is just something to compare too. I think we are using different cards but some should look the same. I list those because my sound works here. Can I also assume you have checked to make sure you are in the right groups for sound? I would think audio would be the only one needed but since we are grasping at straws, compare to this: root@fireball / # cat /etc/group | grep dale tty::5:nut,dale lp::7:lp,dale wheel::10:root,dale uucp::14:uucp,nut,dale audio::18:dale cdrom::19:haldaemon,dale dialout::20:root,dale video::27:root,dale usb::85:haldaemon,dale users::100:games,dale utmp:x:406:dale lpadmin:x:106:dale games:x:35:dale plugdev:x:999:haldaemon,dale dale:x:1000: nut:x:84:nut,dale wireshark:x:993:dale root@fireball / # Again, yours may vary but it may help. This may not help but at least you can be pretty sure of what it is not. When working on something like this, am I the only one that feels like Sherlock Holmes? lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On 01/23/2011 07:44 AM, Dale wrote: dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 07:20 AM, Dale wrote: dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It seems every time I do a install, I have to unmute the sound with both alsa and Kmix to get sound. I assume alsa controls the card itself and kmix is sort of like software. You may have hit something similar here. If even one thing is muted, no sound. Finding them all is fun tho. Dale :-) :-) I had all the channels unmuted. I ran alsamixer and gnome-volume-control to unmute and to verify, but still no sound. In the /etc/make.conf I have ALSA_CARDS=AC97 set, but I don't think that matters according to the documentation. Does lspci -k show it is using some sort of driver? Mine for example shows this: 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 069a Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel If yours doesn't show a kernel driver in use, then it is likely a driver problem. If it does show one, make sure it is the correct one. I usually use this as a guide: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ Just run the lspci -n command and paste it in there. It works well. If it shows it is loading the correct driver, something is muted somewhere or maybe it is as simple as you have the speakers plugged into the wrong plug. I did that once on my first build. I had two green plugs. Sort of got the wrong one. ;-) I can't think of anything else at the moment. Dale :-) :-) It looks like it's got a driver from the following: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 The full output is below. # lspci -k SNIP 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 From that, I would think it is working driver and hardware wise, key word is think. The only things I can think of is something somewhere is muted or plugged up wrong. Do you have something like this: root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 420 Jan 22 00:44 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4380 Jan 22 00:45 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 22 00:44 by-path crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 10 Jan 22 00:44 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 19 Jan 22 00:44 controlC1 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 9 Jan 22 00:44 hwC0D0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 18 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 17 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D1 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 16 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D2 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 15 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D3 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D0c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 7 Jan 23 06:37 pcmC0D0p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 6 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D1c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D1p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 4 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D2c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 14 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D3p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 13 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D7p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 12 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D8p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 11 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D9p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 3 Jan 22 00:44 seq crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 2 Jan 22 00:44 timer root@fireball / # Yours may vary a bit so it is just something to compare too. I think we are using different cards but some should look the same. I list those because my sound works here. Can I also assume you have checked to make sure you are in the right groups for sound? I would think audio would be the only one needed but since we are grasping at straws, compare to this: root@fireball / # cat /etc/group | grep dale tty::5:nut,dale lp::7:lp,dale wheel::10:root,dale uucp::14:uucp,nut,dale audio::18:dale cdrom::19:haldaemon,dale dialout::20:root,dale video::27:root,dale usb::85:haldaemon,dale users::100:games,dale utmp:x:406:dale lpadmin:x:106:dale games:x:35:dale plugdev:x:999:haldaemon,dale dale:x:1000: nut:x:84:nut,dale wireshark:x:993:dale root@fireball / # Again, yours may vary but it may help. This may not help but at least you can be pretty sure of what it is not. When working on something like this, am I the only one that feels like Sherlock Holmes? lol Dale :-) :-) By the way, that link is really good. It did confirm that I'm using the correct driver. I checked the plugs and nothing. I think I might try another sound card. The one I've been
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On 01/23/2011 07:55 AM, dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 07:44 AM, Dale wrote: dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 07:20 AM, Dale wrote: dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 06:10 AM, Dale wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; I will add this. It seems every time I do a install, I have to unmute the sound with both alsa and Kmix to get sound. I assume alsa controls the card itself and kmix is sort of like software. You may have hit something similar here. If even one thing is muted, no sound. Finding them all is fun tho. Dale :-) :-) I had all the channels unmuted. I ran alsamixer and gnome-volume-control to unmute and to verify, but still no sound. In the /etc/make.conf I have ALSA_CARDS=AC97 set, but I don't think that matters according to the documentation. Does lspci -k show it is using some sort of driver? Mine for example shows this: 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 069a Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel If yours doesn't show a kernel driver in use, then it is likely a driver problem. If it does show one, make sure it is the correct one. I usually use this as a guide: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ Just run the lspci -n command and paste it in there. It works well. If it shows it is loading the correct driver, something is muted somewhere or maybe it is as simple as you have the speakers plugged into the wrong plug. I did that once on my first build. I had two green plugs. Sort of got the wrong one. ;-) I can't think of anything else at the moment. Dale :-) :-) It looks like it's got a driver from the following: 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 The full output is below. # lspci -k SNIP 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8N-E Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 From that, I would think it is working driver and hardware wise, key word is think. The only things I can think of is something somewhere is muted or plugged up wrong. Do you have something like this: root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 420 Jan 22 00:44 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4380 Jan 22 00:45 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 22 00:44 by-path crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 10 Jan 22 00:44 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 19 Jan 22 00:44 controlC1 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 9 Jan 22 00:44 hwC0D0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 18 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 17 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D1 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 16 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D2 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 15 Jan 22 00:44 hwC1D3 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D0c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 7 Jan 23 06:37 pcmC0D0p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 6 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D1c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D1p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 4 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC0D2c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 14 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D3p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 13 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D7p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 12 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D8p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 11 Jan 22 00:44 pcmC1D9p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 3 Jan 22 00:44 seq crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 2 Jan 22 00:44 timer root@fireball / # Yours may vary a bit so it is just something to compare too. I think we are using different cards but some should look the same. I list those because my sound works here. Can I also assume you have checked to make sure you are in the right groups for sound? I would think audio would be the only one needed but since we are grasping at straws, compare to this: root@fireball / # cat /etc/group | grep dale tty::5:nut,dale lp::7:lp,dale wheel::10:root,dale uucp::14:uucp,nut,dale audio::18:dale cdrom::19:haldaemon,dale dialout::20:root,dale video::27:root,dale usb::85:haldaemon,dale users::100:games,dale utmp:x:406:dale lpadmin:x:106:dale games:x:35:dale plugdev:x:999:haldaemon,dale dale:x:1000: nut:x:84:nut,dale wireshark:x:993:dale root@fireball / # Again, yours may vary but it may help. This may not help but at least you can be pretty sure of what it is not. When working on something like this, am I the only one that feels like Sherlock Holmes? lol Dale :-) :-) By the way, that link is really good. It did confirm that I'm using the correct driver. I checked the plugs and nothing. I think I might try another
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
dhk wrote: On 01/23/2011 07:55 AM, dhk wrote: By the way, that link is really good. It did confirm that I'm using the correct driver. I checked the plugs and nothing. I think I might try another sound card. The one I've been trying to get working is part of the mother board. I'm sure I have a Sound Blaster around somewhere. I'll let you know if that maks a difference. . . . and yes I have the following. # ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 240 Jan 21 12:49 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 3880 Jan 21 12:50 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jan 21 12:49 by-path crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 9 Jan 21 12:49 controlC0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 4 Jan 21 12:49 controlC1 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 3 Jan 21 12:49 midiC1D0 crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 8 Jan 23 06:56 pcmC0D0c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 7 Jan 23 07:48 pcmC0D0p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 6 Jan 21 12:49 pcmC0D1c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 21 12:49 pcmC0D2p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 10 Jan 21 12:49 seq crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 2 Jan 21 12:49 timer Thanks. The Sound Blaster didn't work either. Should I try enabling the deprecated OSS in the kernel? I think that link was posted on here a long time ago and I bookmarked it. There is another site that I think is Redhat based that is close to the same thing. I just like the one I posted better. It has yet to lead me to the wrong driver. Another good thing about that link, on the left, you can find your mobo by model number and see if everything is supported before you buy. Real nice and helpful site, even if it is Debian. lol Are you sure it is enabled in the BIOS and has the correct setting, if anything can even be changed? I guess it could be that the audio part is bad but I still suspect something is muted somewhere. I have ran into this so many times it is ridiculous. I don't think it would hurt to try the OSS drivers. If it works, cool. If not, you tried one more thing and eliminated that as a cause. I still feel like we are in Sherlock Holmes territory here. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On 2011-01-23 14:23, dhk wrote: The Sound Blaster didn't work either. Should I try enabling the deprecated OSS in the kernel? You can always try it but I highly doubt it would improve the situation... What sound related USE flags have you enabled (i.e. alsa, oss[for compatibility] etc.)? Are you using any sound daemons (like Esound or Pulseaudio)? Shut them down. Are you sure you've plugged the speaker/headphone cable(s) into the right jack? Whenever I install a new computer I always put some music on and try the different audio jacks to find the right one. How do you play sound to verify that you have (or not, in your case) sound? For the last part I would advise to keep it as simple as possible i.e. try ogg123 or mpg123 or mplayer (as an example). Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On Sunday 23 January 2011 13:23:58 dhk wrote: Until you fellows start trimming your replies so that I don't have to scroll down several pages to find the one line you've added, I will not bother. Your contributions will go unread here. It's been a hard day and you make it harder. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On 01/23/2011 12:47 PM, pk wrote: On 2011-01-23 14:23, dhk wrote: The Sound Blaster didn't work either. Should I try enabling the deprecated OSS in the kernel? You can always try it but I highly doubt it would improve the situation... What sound related USE flags have you enabled (i.e. alsa, oss[for compatibility] etc.)? Are you using any sound daemons (like Esound or Pulseaudio)? Shut them down. Are you sure you've plugged the speaker/headphone cable(s) into the right jack? Whenever I install a new computer I always put some music on and try the different audio jacks to find the right one. How do you play sound to verify that you have (or not, in your case) sound? For the last part I would advise to keep it as simple as possible i.e. try ogg123 or mpg123 or mplayer (as an example). Best regards Peter K My make.conf Use is: USE=-arts -doc -evo -firefox -kde -qt -qt3 -qt4 -java X alsa cairo cdr device-mapper extras gdu gnome gtk jpeg png policykit sqlite svg tiff udev xml xulrunner xvmc Everything is plugged in correctly and checked many times. As far as I know there aren't any sound daemons running, this is a new install, only a couple of weeks old. Everything looks like it should be working, the only thing is I don't hear anything. Since I hear other things I'm sure I'm not deaf and can rule that out. This is a basic set up with lvm2, gnome, firefox, thunderbird, and openoffice. That's about it, nothing fancy.
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
dhk wrote: My make.conf Use is: USE=-arts -doc -evo -firefox -kde -qt -qt3 -qt4 -java X alsa cairo cdr device-mapper extras gdu gnome gtk jpeg png policykit sqlite svg tiff udev xml xulrunner xvmc Everything is plugged in correctly and checked many times. As far as I know there aren't any sound daemons running, this is a new install, only a couple of weeks old. Everything looks like it should be working, the only thing is I don't hear anything. Since I hear other things I'm sure I'm not deaf and can rule that out. This is a basic set up with lvm2, gnome, firefox, thunderbird, and openoffice. That's about it, nothing fancy. Take a look at mine, and the command I used to get it. Keep in mind, there are also USE setting that are set by your profile not just make.conf. root@fireball / # emerge --info | grep USE= USE=3dnow 3dnowext X aac acpi alsa amd64 aml auto-hinter automount avahi berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdr chroot cleartype cli clucene consolekit corefonts cracklib cups curl cxx dbus dri dvd dvdr emboss encode escreen esd exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gimp gkrellm gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk hal hbci hddtemp iconv ipv6 java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde lcms ldap libnotify libwww logrotate loop-aes mad mdnsresponder-compat melt mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl openmp pam pango parport pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds ppp pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 readline sasl sdl seamonkey semantic-desktop session sift smp spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype type1 udev unicode usb vcd vorbis webkit wma wmf x264 xcb xml xorg xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib ALSA_CARDS=ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias CAMERAS=canon ptp2 COLLECTD_PLUGINS=df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog ELIBC=glibc GPSD_PROTOCOLS=ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text LINGUAS=en_US en PHP_TARGETS=php5-3 RUBY_TARGETS=ruby18 USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=nv nvidia XTABLES_ADDONS=quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account root@fireball / # Compare those and see if you see something. Note the ALSA settings too. I'm not sure you need the same as me but you may need something to enable the sound. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On 2011-01-24 00:49, dhk wrote: Everything is plugged in correctly and checked many times. As far as I know there aren't any sound daemons running, this is a new install, only a couple of weeks old. Everything looks like it should be working, the only thing is I don't hear anything. Since I hear other things I'm sure I'm not deaf and can rule that out. This is a basic set up with lvm2, gnome, firefox, thunderbird, and openoffice. That's about it, nothing fancy. Ok, then I'm stumped... unless there's something in Gnome that's creating a problem? I don't run Gnome (or KDE) for that reason. Did you try a simple program (like ogg123, mpg123 etc.) to output sound? I've come across sound/music programs (well, versions of them at least) that doesn't output any sound... Btw, have you tried a live cd (ubuntu, fedora etc.) to see if you can get sound? If you get working sound you may be able to copy the settings from that... Best regards Peter K
[gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
Can someone tell me why I don't have sound? I've followed the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml and everything seems to be working, but there's still no sound. I've also swapped out the speakers, made sure they were powered on, and the volume turned up. Also I'm in the audio group and the channels are unmuted with the volume at 75%. One thing I did notice is that after running alsaconf there aren't any modules in /etc/modules.d/, in fact the directory doesn't even exist. Now if there aren't any modules to load that's fine, but since I don't hear anything I'm not so sure. Below is what's on my ~amd64 system. Thanks. # rc-update show | grep -i alsa alsasound | boot # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... [ ok ] * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... [ ok ] # lspci -v | grep -i audio 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) # cat /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86_64-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 | egrep -i 'sound|ac97|alsa' CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE=y CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM=y CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m # CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set CONFIG_AC97_BUS=m CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_ALSA_SUPPORT=y # CONFIG_CRYPTO_SALSA20 is not set CONFIG_CRYPTO_SALSA20_X86_64=m # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [CK8S ]: NFORCE - NVidia CK8S NVidia CK8S with ALC850 at irq 20 1 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART MPU-401 UART at 0x300, irq 5 # cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. # cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.23 emulation code) Kernel: Linux jenny 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 16:53:04 EST 2011 x86_64 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: NVidia CK8S with ALC850 at irq 20 MPU-401 UART at 0x300, irq 5 Audio devices: 0: NVidia CK8S (DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: 1: MPU-401 UART MIDI Timers: 31: system timer Mixers: 0: Realtek ALC850 rev 0 1: mixer10
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:16 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Can someone tell me why I don't have sound? What happens when you; modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss ; modprobe snd-seq-oss
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
On 01/22/2011 08:51 PM, David Abbott wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:16 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Can someone tell me why I don't have sound? What happens when you; modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss ; modprobe snd-seq-oss After executing the four modprobes above, nothing happens.
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound
Alsaconf will probe the right module for you. have you run alsamixer? (Or gmixer or whichever mixer you like to unumte the channels with?) You need to unmute the channells; On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:59 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: On 01/22/2011 08:51 PM, David Abbott wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:16 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Can someone tell me why I don't have sound? What happens when you; modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss ; modprobe snd-seq-oss After executing the four modprobes above, nothing happens. -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders Adipl. CISSP ITIL MCSE MCP IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
