From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NhftO-0001c8-LS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:08:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39FD5E079B; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07A7E079B for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 16341 invoked by uid 3782); 17 Feb 2010 09:07:50 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E22D47.dip.t-dialin.net [217.226.45.71]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:07:49 +0100 Received: (qmail 2818 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Feb 2010 09:15:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:15:06 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-( Message-ID: <20100217091506.GB2392@muc.de> References: <20100216145412.GA3456@muc.de> <5bdc1c8b1002161620o3ad074di7bea5d26bd68e02c@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002161620o3ad074di7bea5d26bd68e02c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8b3b5956-a1ce-411c-b6af-f834e21eb940 X-Archives-Hash: 2e96933afffdc8c59c5435703bcd4125 Hi, Mark, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:20:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, gentoo, > > I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the > > "Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide". =A0Everything seems to be working fine, ex= cept > > no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers. > > I've checked the obvious things: the speakers are plugged in, switche= d > > on and connected to the appropriate socket on my motherboard (the lig= ht > > green one). > > I have drivers for my motherboard's sound chips compiled into my kern= el, > > and they are correctly identified by alsamixer. =A0With alsamixer I'v= e > > unmuted various things and turned up the volume. > > madplay appears to play an mp3 file I have. =A0Just that no actual so= und > > comes out. > > One other strange thing: the titles under the "volume bars" in alsami= xer > > are very different from the ones in the document: Instead of "Master = / > > Headphone / Tone / Bass / Treble / 3D Contr / PCM", I've got " Master= / > > Headphon / Front / Front Mi / Surround / Center / LFE / Side / Line / > > Mic / Mic Boos / S/PDIF / S/PDIF D / Beep". =A0Why is this? =A0In > > particular, I'm missing the "PCM" volume bar which the documentation > > says is so important to unmute. > > What am I missing here? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > Did you get this worked out yet?=20 Not yet, no. > VERY strange that you don't see pcm as a mixer control... I've got alsamixer 1.0.21. Could it be that it choses its controls according to the capabilities of the sound card? > It's a bit hard to say much with so little info but I'll offer a > couple of things: > 1) IMO Alsa has never run so well when drivers are compiled into the > kernel. I do a lot of audio in Linux and have always had the best > results using modules. I would strongly suggest you give it a try... Oh deity! I was hoping not to have to do this. I've never used modules before, since they are (or were) an unnecessary complication, and might introduce security risks. Maybe I'll have to read up on this. > 2) Under /proc/asound/card0 (or whatever card you are using if you > have more than 1) do you see any pcm directories? # ls /proc/asound/card0 codec#0 id oss_mixer pcm0c pcm0p pcm1p pcm2c , so yes, I can see some pcm directories. > 3) Post back a little more info? > cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xfbcf8000 irq 16 1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfbffc000 irq 19 > aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > aplay -L default:CARD=3DSB HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=3DSB,DEV=3D0 HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=3DSB,DEV=3D0 HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=3DSB,DEV=3D0 HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=3DSB,DEV=3D0 HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=3DSB,DEV=3D0 HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=3DSB,DEV=3D0 HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speake= rs iec958:CARD=3DSB,DEV=3D0 HDA ATI SB, ALC1200 Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) hdmi:CARD=3DHDMI HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI HDMI Audio Output > lsmod Opening /proc/modules: No such file or directory > Good luck, Thanks! > Mark --=20 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).