Re: New install - no sound

["Matthew A. Nicholson" <matt@matt-land.com>]

Kernels 2.6.12 enable something called dmix by default if your soundcard 
does not support multiple channels.  This would allow rhythmbox and xmms 
to play sounds at the same time without esd/alsa/your sound server.

This is a very cool feature that I sorely missed for a long time.

Russ Cook wrote:
> Oops.  I reran alsaconf.  That killed a process that was running (I 
> don't know
> what it was).  Afterwards, both XMMS and Rythmbox are functional now.
> Thank you both for your helpful suggestions.  Now that sound is working,
> I can turn to other problems - like whether to install a 32-bit chroot for
> programs like Mplayer, Mozilla with Java support, etc.
>
> Thanks again.  I really appreciate your help.
>
> Regards,
>  Russ
> Russ Cook wrote:
>
> > Len,
> >  In /proc/asound I have a symlink CK804 which links to a directory card0.
> > In card0 I have a file named intel8x0 and a directory named codec97#0.
> > There also other files and directories.
> > Connecting to other audio jacks does not appear to help.
> >
> > Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:01:35PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > > > I believe I have.  As a user, I am a member of the audio group.  I 
> > > > can run alsamixer as normal user.  Still no sound.  I visited this 
> > > > web site for hints -
> > > > http://xtronics.com/reference/Debian-sound.html and looked at the 
> > > > list of
> > > > packages it recommended installing.  I noticed that I can't install 
> > > > alsa-modules because it isn't available.  I am running testing - 
> > > > does that have
> > > > any bearing on my problem?
> > > >   
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > You only need alsa-modules for 2.4 kernels.  2.6 kernels have alsa
> > > drivers already included.
> > >
> > > Do you have your card listed in /proc/asound/cards?
> > >
> > > What sound chip is it?  If it is an i8x0 ac97 chip, then try plugging
> > > the speakers into the mic jack or other jacks and see if it helps, or
> > > turn up the headphone volume.  If any of that works, you need to go find
> > > out which ac97_quirk option you have to pass to the driver for your
> > > hardware.
> > >
> > > Len Sorensen
> > >
> > >
> > >  

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Matthew A. Nicholson
Digium