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pamabaco

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Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 5

Sound configuration

Hello,
I'm not able to put sound working. I followed some wiki pages, trying a lot of hints but none worked.

Some output:

>lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series]

>amixer info
Card default 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfdff8000 irq 43'
  Mixer name    : 'Realtek ALC887-VD'
  Components    : 'HDA:10ec0887,1458a002,00100302'
  Controls      : 39
amixer: Mixer load default error: Invalid argument

>cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfdff8000 irq 43
1 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdcfc000 irq 45

>aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC887-VD Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
    HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output

>lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     21777  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek   150017  1
snd_hda_intel          20082  0
snd_hda_codec          76179  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_pcm                60595  3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_page_alloc          5869  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4942  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              15438  1 snd_pcm
snd                    44501  7 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
soundcore               5018  1 snd

>alsamixer
cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument

I'm in the audio group. Nevertheless, no sound...
Hope someone give the solution

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Sound configuration

For alsamixer, look at "man alsamixer" and use its -c option.

pamabaco

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Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 5

Re: Sound configuration

I tried
>alsamixer -c 1

and besides some menu options at the top I only get a small rectangle with MM inside and <S/PDIF> below.

pamabaco

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Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 5

Re: Sound configuration

No sound yet... No more clues?

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Sound configuration

Useful debugging info:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
bash alsa-info.sh --upload

Then show us the URL that the script shows at the end.

Try a Ubuntu LiveCD, to see if the sound works there - if it does, do the same as above, and check for differences.

pamabaco

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Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 5

Re: Sound configuration

Thanks for the reply.
I know that the sound card works because I have dual boot and it works with winXP. But I'll try with the Ubuntu LiveCD to compare the results.
The url is http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=778c8 … 529a38c0ad

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Sound configuration

Driver version:     1.0.24
Library version:    1.0.25
Utilities version:  1.0.25

I would install alsa-driver 1.0.25, so your versions are consistent.

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Which of those 3 possibilities do you want to use? Perhaps you need to specify a ctl in ~/.asoundrc

pamabaco

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Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 5

Re: Sound configuration

I don't have a ~/.asoundrc file.
I tried do write one following the alsa wiki but the result was

ALSA lib conf.c:3406:(config_file_open) ~/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it

And now alsamixer gives

cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Sound configuration

So show it. We're not psychic