No sound with 2012-04-03 daily build
Hello,
I have been following this list for a while and was interested to learn that
the latest daily D-I images have software speech. I downloaded the mini GTK
.iso and burned it. It booted, I pressed "s" and Enter, but I got no
speech. No matter what I passed at the boot prompt, I still got no sound.
I have had this problem before with Linux and I know my sound card is supported.
I am running a Sound Blaster Audigy. It's a fairly old card and uses the
emu_10k1 module. For some reason, it's set to digital output only. I went
to a shell, and through trial and error eventually figured out how to turn
this off. It's actually called "Audigy/Analog digital output jack" and is a
boolean. Even when turning it off, I had no volume and still couldn't hear
speech. I had to set the Master and PCM playback to 100,100. The volume
was still very low but I could hear it.
amixer cset numid=214 off
For some reason, the installer doesn't load the module which lets me access
my hard disks, so I couldn't mount my previously existing Linux partition.
I eventually got it to the partitioner and /dev/sda showed up. I was able
to mount /dev/sda3 and used alsactl to restore my configuration settings. I
finally got decent volume and was able to hear what was going on. Before I
rebooted into the new install, I copied /var/lib/alsa/asound.state to the
new partition so I wouldn't have to go through that again.
Should I file a bug about this? If so, would it be against D-I or something
else? Should I post my asound.state and/or the amixer output? Since I know
what the problem is, it isn't hard to fix. Just set the numid=214 amixer
control to off. With it on, it's effectively muted. Is there a chance of
this getting fixed at some point?
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