Re: "alsaconf" successful. No sound!
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:22:55 -0800, Mark Fletcher wrote
(<[🔎] 20060308042255.93587.qmail@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com>):
>
>
> --- Scott <angrykeyboarder@angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>
>> Francesco Bochicchio spake thusly on 03/07/2006
>> 02:54 PM:
>> > Il Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:50:14 +0100, Felix Karpfen
>> ha scritto:
>> >>
>> >> However when checking the output of a .wav file
>> by running the "play"
>> >> command from a console, I get a deafening
>> silence. "alsamixer" says the
>> >> the "playback master" is set at 74.
>> >>
>> >
>> > What about the PCM channel? By default with ALSA
>> it is muted
>> > and with 0 volume. You need to unmute and raise
>> its volume
>> > using alsamixer.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
> Original Poster -- did un-muting the PCM channel and
> setting its volume solve your problem? If not, try
> unmuting and setting volume for the Headphone channel.
Firstly, I would like to thank all who were good enough to post some
advice and apologise for taking so long to report on the outcomes.
And secondly I am pleased to report that the problem has either been
fixed or has gone away. Given that I followed several suggestions (or
my understanding of the suggestions), I am uncertain which made the
difference. So here are all the details:
In my original posting, I was needlessly brief about the info
displayed by "alsamixer".
"alsamixer" also reported that my card is SiS SI7012 and my analogue
driver is AD1890. According to the kernel docs, the card (SiS
SI7012) requires module "snd-intel8x0 which is loaded (according to
lsmod).
My selected sound player (using fvwm2 windows manager) is
"play(sox)".
I do not appear to have a Headphone channel, so I cannot unmute it;
I did unmute the "Phone" channel, the "Mono Master" channel and the
"Center" channel. The "PCM" channel was already not muted and set at
close to the maximum.
When exploring the advice in
http://alcopop.org/log/2006/02/12/
I got the following output from amixer:
# amixer scontents | grep Jack
Simple mixer control 'Surround Jack as Input',0
Simple mixer control 'Center/LFE Jack as Input',0
No "Line Jack"; no "Headphone Jack". Both the found Jacks were left off.
I have "discover1" installed and would need more guidance before
I can boot with "acpi=off". If it is a service that can be toggled
with "sysvconfig", then I have no such service.
I checked what I had achieved before following up the
information supplied by Andrew Sackville-West in
(<[🔎] 20060308094908.4cf468de.andrew@farwestbilliards.com>).
and, as mentioned at the start, I now have sound.
Again, my thanks to all respondents for their suggestions.
Felix Karpfen
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Felix Karpfen
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