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j1232

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From: New York

Registered: 2012-04-30

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help me get audio working

I am working on a HP Pavilion dv4000 and I am unable to get the sound output working,  im sure I screwed something up in the .asoundrc below is some output info.

The ALSA mixer sees the sound car and it seems that I can edit the audio but I still get no sound output.

Here is my aplay -l output:

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Modem [Intel ICH6 Modem], device 0: Intel ICH - Modem [Intel ICH6 Modem - Modem]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Here is the info in ~/.asoundrc

defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 1

I have tired the speaker test and nothing happens.

Last edited by j1232 (2012-05-02 14:44:18)

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Pajaro

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Re: help me get audio working

First, you don't need to setup .asoundrc unless you need some special feature.
Also, in the .asoundrc that you provide, you seem to have set your modem as default volume control device.

Try removing/renaming your asoundrc, and try different output devices with audacious.

j1232

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From: New York

Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 4

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Re: help me get audio working

I removed .asondrc file when trying to run Audacious it says No Suitable mixer element found.  snd_mixer_find_salem failed.   I try and play a little sound and here

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono

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Terminator

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 265

Re: help me get audio working

1) Check if you have alsa-lib alsa-plugins and alsa-utils installed.
2) Check if your sound device isn't muted in alsamixer.
3) You might want to install pulseaudio, pulseaudio-alsa and libcanberra-pulse. Without pulseaudio, my sound works but only one application seems to be able to use it.