On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:57:02PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > Please can somebody help. I've reached the stage of desperation. I've > compiled the via drivers and alsa into the kernel and installed the alsa > library, plug-ins, utilities and alsa oss. I've run the speaker-test and > played a wav file and everything on the terminal screen looks good. I > have not been able to get any failures, but I still cannot get any sound > from the speakers. I've tested the speakers and cable on another box > and they are good. Does anybody know what the problem could be? It must > be something simple that's eluding me.
Sound is like that, I'm afraid. If you try to play through a driver for which the hardware is not present, I'm not sure if they all report errors, so perhaps you have the wrong driver - has sound ever worked on this hardware ? Non-software possibilities - input on amp not connected or not selected, speaker cables fell out of amp (I've had both of those), amp turned down too far. Alsa possibilities - a 'hidden' control which is muted (some drivers have more controls than fit on the screen, and everything defaults to off and muted). For testing, it can help to set everything to unmuted and fairly high level, but it depends how sensitive your amp is - you may need to be ready to turn down a physical volume control. There can also be 64/32 or endian issues with obscure combinations of hardware and sound cards, but those usually lead to either error messages or aplay taking a persistent 100% cpu. -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
