Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 20:09 -0500, Daniel Chester wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: network > Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-i386-netinst.iso > Date: February 27, 2013, 5 pm EST > > Machine IBM Thinkpad X31 > Processor: CPU family = Intel Pentium M 1300mHz, CPU ID = 695 > Memory; 20GB (The specs say 20 GB, but we detected only 16GB when partitioning) [...] > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 01) > Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0534] > Kernel driver in use: snd_intel8x0 So a sound driver is loaded. > The install appeared to go well. I chose the LXDE desktop environment and > installed Midori and SBCL. But then I discovered that there is no sound. > There was an error message on booting that said that pcspkr was already > registered. I added the blacklist snd-pcsp line to fbdev-blacklist.conf and > that fixed the error message. But there is no evidence that anything > associated with alsa was installed. For example, /usr/sbin/alsa does not > exist. Even vi does not beep when you expect it to. This depends on the configuration of the terminal emulator. > I would expect that > Wheezy would come with the appropriate sound software installed. > > I am in the audio group. When I look in /dev, I don't see anything like dsp > or pcm. [...] /dev/dsp is ancient history (OSS). ALSA sound devices appear under /dev/snd. In a fresh installation, the initial mixer settings are likely to be silent (or very quiet). I expect that LXDE has a volume control or mixer application you can use to adjust them. Let us know whether you continue to have a problem with sound. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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