Re: New install - no sound
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:11:23 -0600
Russ Cook <russcook@mbo.net> wrote:
> I have an ASUS A8N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard with an AMD4800 dual core
> processor. I believe the audio is Realtek ALC850. I performed a clean
> install from unstable from
> http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main. My
> system is up and running, and I have been performing apt-get update and
> upgrade periodically. My kernel is vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp. My
> problem is that I don't have any sound from the system. Attached is the
> output from 'lsmod'. The utility 'Discover' is installed. Can anyone
> offer some pointers?
>
> Thanks much,
> Russ
>
I'm assuming you have alsaconf, alsamixer and alsactl installed (alsa-utils) and the proper devices in /dev to use your hardware. You might also want to install alsa-oss and alsa-base.
I also have Realtek onboard audio with the ALC850 chip. I always build my own kernel and the latest version of alsa. I have alsa 1.0.10 installed with kernel 2.6.14.3 that I built myself.
Below is the modules I am using for alsa.
snd_seq_oss 38436 0
snd_seq_midi 10240 0
snd_rawmidi 30752 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 9152 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61400 5 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10192 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd_intel8x0 37096 0
snd_ac97_codec 108220 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2880 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 58400 0
snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 104012 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 28040 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 68096 10 snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 12112 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
soundcore 12320 1 snd
This is what my /dev looks like.
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/adsp -> adsp0
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/adsp0
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 28 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/adsp1
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 44 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/adsp2
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 60 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/adsp3
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/dsp -> dsp0
0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/dsp0
0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 19 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/dsp1
0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 35 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/dsp2
0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 51 Nov 25 21:17 /dev/dsp3
You might try running alsaconf to detect your card or alsamixer to make sure your levels aren't all the way down. Other than that I don't know what to tell you. But the ALC850 chip definitely works with alsa.
>From alsamixer:
Card: ALi M5455
Chip: Realtek ALC850 rev 0
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