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 1NhXfy-0006MM-95 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:21:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B3C5E094C; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f195.google.com (mail-pz0-f195.google.com [209.85.222.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2C3E094C for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so2259560pzk.2 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:20:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=c1qdkqTUqvyG2NSjDZpCAUNmFd8MsG4PF4UBMeBADpc=; b=VTMzJgpNgKRWbGm112SZBtyJgKQVNrwEoy/puLUl5gC37pBFLFskTsohKBqJ0kvR2X LYoEEqq/xYPd8xJi+mSxdLHhAfTD33sC5eBei+ARZZviSZ70dDBDvQgqZJDCWRVvILvv 31IvwajnIVpbMsAFxKcg7cxaWT6Dd2ZEA7rGE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=thoqYPBNPS4ftxl5Gbtedue5MmJ4ykOMNIxodq7dhhfQksG4IuwxiFfcrAZaSWim+m zvlLds1zVw2jnXTdXxWYEKnK2sdxiOLWGt0M/kQKN3C0ZyELCq6/wEZXGjV0S4uyGNho sXkZiu5w59zyVdI3+hsssEzunRA8h8KrFuYxI= 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 Received: by 10.142.60.10 with SMTP id i10mr1470593wfa.46.1266366053449; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:20:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100216145412.GA3456@muc.de> References: <20100216145412.GA3456@muc.de> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:20:53 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1002161620o3ad074di7bea5d26bd68e02c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-( From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4faf7ec5-6056-41fc-957a-9a7c678eaf0f X-Archives-Hash: 9407c42fed9c20cb8342603ea70d708d 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". =C2=A0Everything seems to be working fine, exc= ept > no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers. > > I've checked the obvious things: the speakers are plugged in, switched > on and connected to the appropriate socket on my motherboard (the light > green one). > > I have drivers for my motherboard's sound chips compiled into my kernel, > and they are correctly identified by alsamixer. =C2=A0With alsamixer I've > unmuted various things and turned up the volume. > > madplay appears to play an mp3 file I have. =C2=A0Just that no actual sou= nd > comes out. > > One other strange thing: the titles under the "volume bars" in alsamixer > 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". =C2=A0Why is this? =C2=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? VERY strange that you don't see pcm as a mixer control... 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... 2) Under /proc/asound/card0 (or whatever card you are using if you have more than 1) do you see any pcm directories? 3) Post back a little more info? cat /proc/asound/cards aplay -l aplay -L lsmod Good luck, Mark