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dlbarron

Member

Registered: 2006-07-08

Posts: 25

Another one who can't get sound working.

I've been through the forums and the docs and sound just will not work. 

First and foremost let me say that the hardware works fine in Windows, so we don't have to worry about the speakers being turned on or plugged in to the right jack.

Second, I've been through what I could find here in the forums and done everything that I've seen recommended:
my user id is in the audio group
I added snd_intel8x0 to the MODULES=() in rc.conf
I used alsamixer to unmute all of the channels and raise the volumes to maximum.
I used alsactl store to save the volume settings
I added alsa to the DAEMONS list in rc.conf
I rebooted, still not working.

I've tried aplay, mpg321 and xmms.  All of the programs look like they are working, no errors or anything, but no sound comes out of the speakers.  Where am I going wrong?

Here's the output of lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  242848  14
shpchp                 36520  0
pci_hotplug            27588  1 shpchp
joydev                  8384  0
eepro100               27664  0
evdev                   8192  0
intel_agp              21148  1
agpgart                26980  1 intel_agp
e100                   31876  0
mii                     5248  2 eepro100,e100
ehci_hcd               29576  0
i2c_i801                8204  0
i2c_core               17408  1 i2c_i801
ppdev                   7812  0
lp                      9732  0
uhci_hcd               20620  0
pcspkr                  2816  0
rtc                    10676  0
parport_pc             24484  1
parport                33480  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
ppp_generic            24724  0
slhc                    6528  1 ppp_generic
snd_seq_oss            31360  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50256  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6796  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            37664  0
snd_mixer_oss          16128  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           29084  1
snd_ac97_codec         93216  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2304  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                76292  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19972  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    45924  11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7776  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          8072  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
usbcore               113536  3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ext3                  128008  1
jbd                    56084  1 ext3
ide_cd                 36256  0
cdrom                  35616  1 ide_cd
ide_disk               14208  2
generic                 4356  0 [permanent]
piix                    9476  0 [permanent]
ide_core              113736  4 ide_cd,ide_disk,generic,piix

And here's the contents of /dev/snd

crw-rw----  1 root audio 116,  0 Jul  7 16:41 controlC0
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 24 Jul  7 16:41 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 16 Jul  7 16:41 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 25 Jul  7 16:41 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 26 Jul  7 16:41 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 27 Jul  7 16:41 pcmC0D3c
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 20 Jul  7 16:41 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116,  1 Jul  7 16:41 seq
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 33 Jul  7 16:41 timer

I haven't tried aconfig, since I'm using udev.  I've refreshed everything.

Any help anyone can suggest I would really appreciate.

Thanks

dlbarron

Member

Registered: 2006-07-08

Posts: 25

Re: Another one who can't get sound working.

ahem

Never mind.

I dug a little further and found this:

http://www.soulfly.nl/~arjan/archlinux/alsa-setup.html

I muted everything except Master and PCM and I'm up and running.