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 1SDepO-0001IA-7F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:37:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17C7EE0A85; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4872CE0678 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-84-44-154-228.netcologne.de [84.44.154.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 23C92DC041 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:34:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:34:57 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD hdaudio: why do I have two audio devices and two mixers? Message-ID: <20120330183457.72baea0f@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 71514702-009b-442d-9302-4c7c5b4fbe28 X-Archives-Hash: bc39f9f6e964b20b484bf8b3db8bc21b walt writes: > 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek > HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] Subsystem: Lenovo > Device 3625 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel > Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel > > 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia > Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3625 > Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel > Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel Probably those are HDMI and 'normal' device. I had similar problems on my sister's PC. > I spent an entire frustrating day discovering that the reason I > have no sound is that every app wants to use /dev/mixer when only > /dev/mixer1 actually works :( > > Only some apps (like audacious) will let me choose which mixer to > use, and those apps work perfectly. > > Anyone else seen this before, I hope? Got a fix? My solution was to edit /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, and change defaults.ctl.card and defaults.pcm.card from 0 to 1. Add this file to CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf, or else the next alsa update will overwrite the file. Wonko