[gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Xi Shen]

hi,

my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
system still does not have sound.

what have i missed?


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Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Pintér Tibor]

> the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
> to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
> system still does not have sound.
> 
> what have i missed?

unmute?

t

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Marcus Wanner]

On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote:
>
>> the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
>> to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
>> system still does not have sound.
>>
>> what have i missed?
>
> unmute?
>
> t
To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up 
(mplayer is special that way, other programs don't have the same 
effect). If sound on that and other apps works now, you need to run
rc-update add alsasound default
and then it should work even after a reboot.

Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Willie Wong]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
> On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
>> unmute?
>>
> To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer 
> is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect). 

Mplayer? Seriously? 

Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)?
That's what they are intended for!

Cheers, 

W

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	thing you can think of?
FORD	At the moment? This marble.
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Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Marcus Wanner]

On 12/15/2009 12:07 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
>    
>> On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
>>      
>>> unmute?
>>>
>>>        
>> To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer
>> is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect).
>>      
> Mplayer? Seriously?
>
> Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)?
> That's what they are intended for!
>    
That was the only thing I could find that unmuted it everywhere it needed...

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Bruce Hill]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
> > On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
> >> unmute?
> >>
> > To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer 
> > is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect). 
> 
> Mplayer? Seriously? 
> 
> Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)?
> That's what they are intended for!
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> W

Or why not go ahead and do things The Alsa Way (TM) and use speaker-test -
command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA:

Run "speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -t wav" in one terminal while you adjust
your levels in alsamixer in another terminal. Yes, use a tabbed terminal, such
as rxvt-unicode. ;)
-- 
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes
the man."

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Dale]

Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
>>     
>>> On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
>>>       
>>>> unmute?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer 
>>> is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect). 
>>>       
>> Mplayer? Seriously? 
>>
>> Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)?
>> That's what they are intended for!
>>
>> Cheers, 
>>
>> W
>>     
>
> Or why not go ahead and do things The Alsa Way (TM) and use speaker-test -
> command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA:
>
> Run "speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -t wav" in one terminal while you adjust
> your levels in alsamixer in another terminal. Yes, use a tabbed terminal, such
> as rxvt-unicode. ;)
>   

OK.  This is funny as heck.  I ran this.  I really need to reverse my 
speakers.  Anybody remember the old cartoon where the guy had the shirt 
sleeves marked left and right?  lol  I guess I need to do that too.

For the record, I had to use alsamixer to unute mine too.  It was the 
master that was muted which mplayer has nothing to do with, at least not 
on my system anyway.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Xi Shen]

thanks you all. i have tried to press the mute button, the volume up
button, adjust the volume in mplayer, etc. but still got nothing. and
my kernel have the intel codec compiled at modules.

anyway, i will retry again...


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
>>> squawked:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> unmute?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up
>>>> (mplayer is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Mplayer? Seriously?
>>> Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)?
>>> That's what they are intended for!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> W
>>>
>>
>> Or why not go ahead and do things The Alsa Way (TM) and use speaker-test -
>> command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA:
>>
>> Run "speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -t wav" in one terminal while you
>> adjust
>> your levels in alsamixer in another terminal. Yes, use a tabbed terminal,
>> such
>> as rxvt-unicode. ;)
>>
>
> OK.  This is funny as heck.  I ran this.  I really need to reverse my
> speakers.  Anybody remember the old cartoon where the guy had the shirt
> sleeves marked left and right?  lol  I guess I need to do that too.
>
> For the record, I had to use alsamixer to unute mine too.  It was the master
> that was muted which mplayer has nothing to do with, at least not on my
> system anyway.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>



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Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Bruce Hill]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 08:15:13PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
> 
> my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k
> 
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
>         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
> 
> the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
> to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
> system still does not have sound.
> 
> what have i missed?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> David Shen

Could you d/l this script:
http://slackwarebox.dyndns.org:88/HOW-TOs/alsa-info.sh
and pastebin.ca the output?

I have a T61 with working sound and webcam built-in mic.

Bruce Hill
-- 
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes
the man."

[gentoo-user] Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[walt]

On 12/15/2009 04:15 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k
>
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
>          Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
>          Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>
> the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
> to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
> system still does not have sound.
>
> what have i missed?

Did you include any of the CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_* options in your
kernel config?  I built them all as modules, and I notice that only
one of them actually gets loaded (in my case, the Realtek codec.) so
I'm assuming that only one is needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

[Mick]

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On Tuesday 15 December 2009 17:16:33 walt wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 04:15 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k
> >
> > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> > Controller (rev 03)
> >          Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
> >          Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
> >
> > the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
> > to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
> > system still does not have sound.
> >
> > what have i missed?
> 
> Did you include any of the CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_* options in your
> kernel config?  I built them all as modules, and I notice that only
> one of them actually gets loaded (in my case, the Realtek codec.) so
> I'm assuming that only one is needed.

On my laptop (different card) the sound is always muted unless I increase the 
volume with e.g. mplayer/alsamixer, or push one of the physical hardware 
buttons on the laptop that increase/lower the volume.  That seems to unmute 
it.  I have to repeat after every reboot.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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