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* [gentoo-user] Where has my sound gone?
@ 2011-09-11 10:17 Peter Humphrey
  2011-09-11 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
  2011-09-11 22:42 ` Walter Dnes
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2011-09-11 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hello List,

I was getting fed up with the bloat and maintenance headaches with my setup, 
which used the kde desktop profile and emerge kde-meta.

So I formatted the root partition and installed from scratch. This time I 
kept the standard profile and only emerged the packages I wanted. I kept the 
kernel config (2.6.39-r3), so all the modules should be present as before. I 
have ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" in make.conf.

But I have no sound! KDE tells me the hardware doesn't work, and alsaconf 
says it can't detect any PCI hardware. Lspci -k shows snd-hda-intel module 
loaded though, so I can't see what's missing.

Any clues, anyone?

-- 
Rgds
Peter		Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

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* [gentoo-user] Re: Where has my sound gone?
  2011-09-11 10:17 [gentoo-user] Where has my sound gone? Peter Humphrey
@ 2011-09-11 22:31 ` walt
  2011-09-12  3:41   ` Peter Humphrey
  2011-09-11 22:42 ` Walter Dnes
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: walt @ 2011-09-11 22:31 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 09/11/2011 03:17 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I was getting fed up with the bloat and maintenance headaches with my setup, 
> which used the kde desktop profile and emerge kde-meta.
> 
> So I formatted the root partition and installed from scratch. This time I 
> kept the standard profile and only emerged the packages I wanted. I kept the 
> kernel config (2.6.39-r3), so all the modules should be present as before. I 
> have ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" in make.conf.
> 
> But I have no sound! KDE tells me the hardware doesn't work, and alsaconf 
> says it can't detect any PCI hardware. Lspci -k shows snd-hda-intel module 
> loaded though, so I can't see what's missing.

Does alsa-info give any useful messages?  How about dmesg or syslog?  Did you
keep any of the useflags from your old make.conf?





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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where has my sound gone?
  2011-09-11 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
@ 2011-09-12  3:41   ` Peter Humphrey
  2011-09-12  3:52     ` Peter Humphrey
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2011-09-12  3:41 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Sunday 11 September 2011 23:31:18 walt wrote:

> Does alsa-info give any useful messages?

An encyclopaedia-full of info, among which I see "No sound servers found".

> How about dmesg or syslog?

Dmsg shows the hardware being set up OK; syslog nothing.

> Did you keep any of the useflags from your old make.conf?

No; that was the point, or part of it. I decided to remove all USE flags 
except hardware ones, then add back in any that turned out to be needed. 
Looks like you've spotted the one I need - thanks. I don't know why I didn't 
think of that - so easy with hindsight.

I've added USE=alsa and I'm remerging world now. Let's hope I'll be able to 
listen to my favourite BBC Radio 3 soon!

-- 
Rgds
Peter		Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where has my sound gone?
  2011-09-12  3:41   ` Peter Humphrey
@ 2011-09-12  3:52     ` Peter Humphrey
  2011-09-12 15:02       ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2011-09-12  3:52 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Monday 12 September 2011 04:41:53 I wrote:

> I've added USE=alsa and I'm remerging world now. Let's hope I'll be able
> to listen to my favourite BBC Radio 3 soon!

Now playing happily, though the BBC do still insist on Flash.

Thanks for your help. So simple...

-- 
Rgds
Peter		Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Where has my sound gone?
  2011-09-12  3:52     ` Peter Humphrey
@ 2011-09-12 15:02       ` Stroller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stroller @ 2011-09-12 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user


On 12 September 2011, at 04:52, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> On Monday 12 September 2011 04:41:53 I wrote:
> 
>> I've added USE=alsa and I'm remerging world now. Let's hope I'll be able
>> to listen to my favourite BBC Radio 3 soon!
> 
> Now playing happily, though the BBC do still insist on Flash.

get_iplayer

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html

Stroller.




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* Re: [gentoo-user] Where has my sound gone?
  2011-09-11 10:17 [gentoo-user] Where has my sound gone? Peter Humphrey
  2011-09-11 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
@ 2011-09-11 22:42 ` Walter Dnes
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Walter Dnes @ 2011-09-11 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:17:17AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote

> But I have no sound! KDE tells me the hardware doesn't work, and alsaconf 
> says it can't detect any PCI hardware. Lspci -k shows snd-hda-intel module 
> loaded though, so I can't see what's missing.
> 
> Any clues, anyone?

  When I go into "make menuconfig"

Device Drivers  --->
  <*> Sound card support  --->
  <*>   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  --->
  [*]   PCI sound devices  --->
    <*>   Intel HD Audio  --->

  I get a list of sub modules.  Here's what I've selected...

 --- Intel HD Audio
 [*]   Build hwdep interface for HD-audio driver
 [ ]     Allow dynamic codec reconfiguration (EXPERIMENTAL)
 [ ]   Support digital beep via input layer
 [ ]   Support jack plugging notification via input layer
 [ ]   Support initialization patch loading for HD-audio
 [*]   Build Realtek HD-audio codec support
 [*]   Build Analog Device HD-audio codec support
 [ ]   Build IDT/Sigmatel HD-audio codec support
 [*]   Build VIA HD-audio codec support
 [ ]   Build HDMI/DisplayPort HD-audio codec support
 [ ]   Build Cirrus Logic codec support
 [ ]   Build Conexant HD-audio codec support
 [ ]   Build Creative CA0110-IBG codec support
 [ ]   Build C-Media HD-audio codec support
 [ ]   Build Silicon Labs 3054 HD-modem codec support
 [*]   Enable generic HD-audio codec parser
 [ ]   Aggressive power-saving on HD-audio 

  Your selections will depend on your card.  Can you post the output for
your sound card from "lspci -v"?  If you have an HDMI output, you may
see 2 audio stanzas in "lspci -v".  List them both just to be sure.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>



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