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 1SDbyx-0004A3-CC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:35:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73CDFE0653; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA130E0667 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A0D1B4013 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:33:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.633 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.633 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.787, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.164, 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 yaT51a7jn-IF for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:33:20 +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 5C28B1B4005 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDbx4-0004h1-Vi for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:33:14 +0200 Received: from 178.233.4.188 ([178.233.4.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:33:14 +0200 Received: from masterprometheus666 by 178.233.4.188 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:33:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: masterprometheus Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD hdaudio: why do I have two audio devices and two mixers? Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:33:10 +0300 Message-ID: References: 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: 178.233.4.188 User-Agent: KNode/4.7.4 X-Archives-Salt: cc5f9cb9-12ac-4efd-bff3-e8d1381d8340 X-Archives-Hash: f1d77bfacc2417ea1d721d014f64bc11 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 That's the HDMI output of your integrated GPU. All AMD graphics, including the APU you have, come with integrated HDMI Audio. > 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 This is the one you have to use for laptop audio. > 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? I think you have to make the second one the default audio device. Possibly by editing the alsa.conf files found in /etc/modprobe.d and /usr/share/alsa. This thread may help : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/gentoo-87/set-default-sound- card-796566/ HTH