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 1SDQod-0006yz-U9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:39:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AF0DE0BA9; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f181.google.com (mail-qc0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E30E0B50 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcsk26 with SMTP id k26so90871qcs.40 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:37:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OpfXniiPoUqyVMfOWTIIKeN6HOxyfqPQjEoH5HfMrVg=; b=pohfh0M1k17p7tO5VEybR9A1Nzdmz23/4ZBbrg5RST3icN7OL+iBDRrLxl1UkrbBeV rmGdzj+IBpiNtTffKyUc/ssSs5ByJfXUABBWBD4SOY5pSm6ObsJxLdk+boGF7cYU7h0O BYek+hB9hEvGVDK37BMAkTGgalbcvnEqr62Q/cL+o8lm2xFQDVubDHx7T8D4t9g4O5B8 XgWHlnTx7W40tNKY2bJcuugME95OVsDe9Xu1riIPmvP5MPONLKGwpGj8rfi7dpuPk+Fy q3alHEnb2Be0Sap3zhTfV/USRp1qYavKabEyZkmvVmBcrr98zFK8r4drGdezW6cWKevE bo+Q== Received: by 10.229.75.138 with SMTP id y10mr118084qcj.110.1333071469656; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c-71-233-120-166.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (c-71-233-120-166.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. [71.233.120.166]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id dm8sm15610413qab.18.2012.03.29.18.37.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:37:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F750E70.4050102@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:37:52 -0400 From: Hung Dang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120325 Thunderbird/11.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD hdaudio: why do I have two audio devices and two mixers? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba16c689-628d-4554-b65b-4f4f14aa1e88 X-Archives-Hash: 32a9db8d7982b32330346c9beb7b4a89 On 03/29/2012 09:18 PM, walt wrote: > Fresh gentoo install on new lenovo desktop. Both linux and win7 > (lenovo installed) tell me that this machine has two audio devices: > > 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 > > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 29 18:07 /dev/mixer > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 16 Mar 29 18:07 /dev/mixer1 > > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Mar 29 18:07 controlC0 > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Mar 29 18:07 controlC1 > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Mar 29 18:07 pcmC0D3p > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Mar 29 18:07 pcmC1D0c > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Mar 29 18:07 pcmC1D0p > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Mar 29 18:07 pcmC1D2c > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Mar 29 18:07 timer > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 29 18:07 pci-0000:00:01.1 -> ../controlC0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 29 18:07 pci-0000:00:14.2 -> ../controlC1 > > > 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? > > Thanks :) I guess the second audio device is either HDMI or HD audio generic. You could verify this by opening alsamixer then select F6 to see a list of audio devices. If you use pulseaudio then you can select the default output device. Or use /etc/asound.conf to select your preferred default device. Hung