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 1SDQWI-0004DA-Kd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:20:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EF94E0B50; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5926BE09FC for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A4264C94 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:18:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.197 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.197 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.187, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JXpH5ENenVcI for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6DDD1B400C for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDQTk-0000dQ-NU for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:18:12 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-182-82.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.182.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:18:12 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-182-82.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:18:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] AMD hdaudio: why do I have two audio devices and two mixers? Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:18:00 -0700 Message-ID: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-182-82.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 X-Archives-Salt: 81d79e2b-a756-4bff-b6f0-61f37b965322 X-Archives-Hash: 34ba42cae665534504419544af14e312 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 :) -- P.S. -- No, I don't use pulseaudio. Why do you ask?