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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:50:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFDF9F9.2020804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201112301735.36722.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2011 17:18:35 Aljosha Papsch wrote:
>
>  > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:00:11PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>  > > Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>  > > > On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>  > > > > I guess you're going to need to provide some debug info. Maybe try
>
>  > > > > a
>
>  > > > >
>
>  > > > > complete power down and not just a warm boot. Not finding the
>
>  > > > > device
>
>  > > > >
>
>  > > > > at all is problematic. What's in lspci, etc.?
>
>  > > >
>
>  > > > Power cycle complete - no difference. Switching back to kernel 3.0.6
>
>  > > > I now have no sound there either!
>
>  > > >
>
>  > > > Lspci shows the device ok. Output of alsa-info attached.
>
>  > >
>
>  > > Your ALSA stuff looks fine, by my eye. What happens when you run
>
>  > > "alsamixer"? "alsamixer -c0"?
>
>  >
>
>  > Peter, according to your amixer output 'Master Front' is set to 0%. Maybe
>
>  > this is your problem?
>
> Well spotted, both you and Michael. However, that's not /the/ problem.
> Setting the master volume to 100% just gave me a faint hiss in the
> speakers; no real sound, and no device detected by alsaconf.

I'm inclined to think you have something in your asoundrc (either 
system-wide or user-local) that's shunting ALSA clients over to Pulse, 
and that Pulse has a misconfiguration.

FWIW, alsaconf doesn't see my sound cards, either. Here's what I've got:

kaylee shortcircuit # lspci -k|grep -i -A2 audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB High Definition 
Audio Controller (rev 09)
         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3015
         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
--
40:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio 
Controller (rev a1)
         Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 2011
         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-30 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-30 14:10 [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound Peter Humphrey
2011-12-30 14:31 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-31  6:43   ` Adam Carter
2011-12-30 14:34 ` Mark Knecht
2011-12-30 16:52   ` Peter Humphrey
2011-12-30 17:00     ` Michael Mol
2011-12-30 17:18       ` Aljosha Papsch
2011-12-30 17:35         ` Peter Humphrey
2011-12-30 17:50           ` Michael Mol [this message]
2011-12-30 20:53             ` Peter Humphrey
2011-12-30 21:43               ` Michael Mol
2011-12-31  1:35                 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-12-30 21:35           ` [gentoo-user] " walt

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