On 9/11/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 07:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > I know it's unlikely, but one other possibility is the sound card > > itself. A number of my RME cards (Hammerfall, HDSP 9652) actually have > > no mixer elements, meaning they cannot be controlled by Alsamixer, > > alsamixer and alsamixer-gui both work fine. > > > and > > so I get the same messages even though the cards work fine with > > mplayer, etc. I somehow doubt this is your case but it doesn't hurt to > > point out that this message can be normal. > > > > Are you attempting to run the Gnome sound server? If there a > > conflict happening there? > > I dunno, is that the one called esd? mplayer -ao esd works.
Yes, I beleive that esd is the 'Enlightenment Sound Daemon' which is somehow part of Gnome. (You know me, always guessing...) Anyway, I think that somehow that is getting in your way. I do not run ESD and then alsamixer works fine for my on-board type sound chips. It never does anything for my sound cards as they all use card specific mixers. (hdspmixer or envycontrol) Try not starting the sound daemon. There a menu entry in the Desktop->Preferences->Sound entry. Note that this may effect Gnome type sounds, e.g. bells and whistles...which I don't use. Also, look at rc-update show and see if esound is somehow set to start. I do not run that at boot time either. I just noticed that with my on-board NVidia sound chip that if I double clicked the volume control (which I guess oyu don't have right now...) that I got a little GUI mixer that shoed me that PCM was disabled on that chip. This means (I think) that if I would have used it but tried to get digital audio I wouldn't have gotten any sound so when you get your volume control working make sure that you double check PCM audio as I think you'll want that working. > > > > > What sound hardware are you running? > > > > lspci > > cat /proc/asound/cards > > > > some poxy thing onboard the motherboard: > > 0 [rev50 ]: VIA686A - VIA 82C686A/B rev50 > VIA 82C686A/B rev50 with ICE1232 at 0xcc00, irq 10 Yeah, it's an onboard thing and apparently the only sound processor in the system. alsamixer should work with that. Possibly either PCM or some other control you can see in alsamixer is muted. That will also cause the volume control to not work in Gnome I think... Sorry about so much guessing... > > I am 95% sure that gnome-volume control worked at some stage. I'll bet it did. Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
