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Re: New install - no sound

Thanks much for the reply. I did NOT have the alsa-utils installed. I thought I had, and that the system was configured. I have now installed alsa-utils, alsa-base, and alsa-oss, and run alsaconf. My modules and /dev do not match yours. You can tell by now that I am not expert at this. I will compile my own kernel once I get everything up and running, so I have a fall-back in case I incorrectly set some options for the custom kernel. 

Any further pointers would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks again.
   Russ

Michael Langley wrote:


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





snd_intel8x0           38784  0 
snd_ac97_codec         91588  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            59360  0 
snd_mixer_oss          21120  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               106632  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              29256  1 snd_pcm
snd                    64800  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              13600  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         13832  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 12 2005-12-10 18:41 /dev/adsp
crw-rw----  1 root audio 14,  4 2005-12-10 18:41 /dev/audio
crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 3 2005-12-10 18:41 /dev/dsp
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