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kanonmat

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From: Linköping, Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-30

Posts: 31

[SOLVED] no sound after reinstall

**EDIT**
POST IS IRRELEVANT

My hp nc6220 laptop has an ICH6 soundchip and ac97 codec

Installing alsa-utils and running alsaconf was one of the first things I did after a reboot into the new system.
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav worked. I set levels with alsamixer and did alsactl store.

Then I proceeded installing xfce4, mplayer, audacious and a whole lot of packages. When I wanted to listen to music, there was no sound. Not outside of X either. I don't remember if I rebooted inbetween. The three mediabuttons mute, lowervolume and raisevolume register, but do nothing. I see the osd come up when i press them playing video in mplayer, though.

buttons:
.Xmodmap

keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume

Is this kernel too new?       I have the 2.6.29-ARCH kernel. The modules snd_intel8x0, snd_intel8x0m and snd_ac97_codec are loaded. I'd like to go with alsa, I think it's more usable than oss. I have the same problem with debian sid and made a lengthy post about it. I finaly chose oss over alsa there.

for reference:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=38112

**EDIT**
Nevermind. Sound works as expected. I think I accidentally set something wrong in a mixer.

Last edited by kanonmat (2009-05-03 09:01:19)

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