Hello, I failed getting sound from my new asus H81M-K mainboard, which replaced a server Tyan mainboard where sound was OK. Using the same two mirror-raid HDs. OS Debian amd64 wheezy.
~$ lspci | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Lynx Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) ~$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ~$ pacmd No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. ~$ echo "set-default-sink 1" | PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH=/var/run/pulse pacmd Failed to create secure directory: Permission denied No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. (same issue when running as superuser) $ pavucontrol connection failed $ pulseaudio --dump-conf daemonize = no fail = yes high-priority = yes nice-level = -11 realtime-scheduling = yes realtime-priority = 5 allow-module-loading = yes allow-exit = yes use-pid-file = yes system-instance = no local-server-type = user cpu-limit = no enable-shm = yes flat-volumes = yes lock-memory = no exit-idle-time = 20 scache-idle-time = 20 dl-search-path = /usr/lib/pulse-2.0/modules default-script-file = load-default-script-file = yes log-target = auto log-level = notice resample-method = auto enable-remixing = yes enable-lfe-remixing = no default-sample-format = s16le default-sample-rate = 44100 alternate-sample-rate = 48000 default-sample-channels = 2 default-channel-map = front-left,front-right default-fragments = 4 default-fragment-size-msec = 25 enable-deferred-volume = yes deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000 deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0 shm-size-bytes = 0 log-meta = no log-time = no log-backtrace = 0 rlimit-fsize = -1 rlimit-data = -1 rlimit-stack = -1 rlimit-core = -1 rlimit-rss = -1 rlimit-as = -1 rlimit-nproc = -1 rlimit-nofile = 256 rlimit-memlock = -1 rlimit-locks = -1 rlimit-sigpending = -1 rlimit-msgqueue = -1 rlimit-nice = 31 rlimit-rtprio = 9 rlimit-rttime = 1000000 /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf ################## # audio settings # ################## # Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list). ao=alsa, # Use SDL audio driver with the esd subdriver by default. #ao = sdl:esd # Specify the mixer device. #mixer = /dev/mixer # Resample the sound to 44100Hz with the lavcresample audio filter. #af=lavcresample=44100 # Output audio to S/PDIF #ao=alsa:device=spdif #ac=hwac3,hwdts,hwmpa, ################## # other settings # ################## # Pretend to be Window Media Player. # Fixes playback when playlist and media file use the same URL. #user-agent=NSPlayer/4.1.0.3856 # Pretend to be Quicktime # Fixes playback for apple.com/trailers redirects #user-agent="QuickTime" # Pretend to be Realplayer SP # Fixes playback for some video streaming sites #user-agent=RMA/1.0 # Pretend to have lots of bandwidth # Speeds up realmedia rtsp:// streams #bandwidth=2000000 # Pretend to be Winamp # Fixes playback of some NSV streams #user-agent="Winamp NSV Player/5.12 (ultravox/2.0)" # Drop frames to preserve audio/video sync. #framedrop = yes # Specify your preferred skin here (skins are searched for in # /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/<name> and ~/.mplayer/skins/<name>). #skin = Abyss # Resample the font alphamap. # 0 plain white fonts # 0.75 very narrow black outline (default) # 1 narrow black outline # 10 bold black outline #ffactor = 0.75 # cache settings # # Use 8MB input cache by default. #cache = 8192 # # Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback. #cache-min = 20.0 # # Prefill 50% of the cache before restarting playback after the cache emptied. #cache-seek-min = 50 # DVD: Display English subtitles if available. #slang = en # DVD: Play English audio tracks if available. #alang = en # get a default OSD font from fontconfig fontconfig = yes font = "Sans" subfont-text-scale = 3 purge remove pulseaudio, in order to reinstall it, removes gnome too. One of the many reasons why on other machines I installed xfce. Thanks for advice francesco pietra
