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fmma

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From: London

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 25

hp2133 mini sound not working after reinstall

Hi Arch users,

i would like and ask you for some help. I had arch with kernel 2.6.26 instaled on my Mini Note 2133 installed. Sound was working out of the box.
I had to re-install arch (because I changed the disk partition) and sound ins now not working.

arch-linux 2.6.30

As far as I can remember, both installs are identical.

my rc.conf file looks

 NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
#
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(tg3 !bcm43xx snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc
snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)

and amixer gives:

$ sudo amixer
Password: 
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [-12.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [-12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 23
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 18 [78%] [-7.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 18 [78%] [-7.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 3
  Front Left: Capture 2 [67%] [20.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 2 [67%] [20.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 54
  Front Left: Capture 39 [72%] [0.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 39 [72%] [0.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 15
  Mono: Playback 10 [67%] [-15.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 3
  Front Left: Capture 2 [67%] [20.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 2 [67%] [20.00dB]

$ lspci | grep Audio

$ sudo lspci | grep Audio easy
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1708/A [Azalia HDAC] (VIA High Definition Audio Controller) (rev 10)

I can't believe that something like sound breaks so easy.

Yours
frank

miau

Member

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 202

Re: hp2133 mini sound not working after reinstall

Have you tried to set the soundcard using alsaconf? Wha is the output of

head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*

?

Last edited by miau (2009-08-03 11:10:22)

keenerd

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Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 647

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Re: hp2133 mini sound not working after reinstall

The HP2133 has not had sound issues since alsa-1.0.16, a year ago.  E.g, it works fine here :-)

Two things: 

Add your user to the "audio" group.  You should not have to use sudo to launch amixer.

Right now, you have every output muted.  You should fix that, and run "alsactrl store" to make sure the volume levels stick.