Re: sound problems on debian
I also have no sound with a recent etch install and an onboard Intel sound
card. If I play a test sound with aplay or mplayer, I get no sound and no
errors. I did run alsaconf. Sound works OK on the same machine booted to
the XP partition. Some specs of my etch system are at the bottom.
On Mon Feb 12 06:48:27 2007, steef wrote
> ... get the newest alsa-drivers (1.0.14) from their site and the
> alsa-libs and alsa-utils (2).
>
> compile the drivers as root into a (new) directory /usr/src/alsa (3) and
> install snd-hhda-intel into your kernel (4) (i assume a 2.6.x.y kernel)
> compile and install as root alsa-libs and als-utils in your
> home-directory (5). that should do the trick.
I'd rather not do this much manual installation, because I'll have to
manually uninstall all of it when a new deb-file version appears. So I may
just wait. Alsa 1.0.14 is not yet in unstable.
I'm wondering, though, if my sound problem may be something else anyway.
When I boot, I get this two-line error repeated quite a few times:
hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x17
amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error: Invalid argument
Do I just need alsa 1.0.14, or does this indicate some other problem?
Thanks.
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Some specs for the etch setup:
/etc/modprobe.d/sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=0
/proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 13:55:50 2006 UTC)
/proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0x90200000 irq 58
/proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
/dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux drx 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 16:41:14 UTC 2006 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
HDA Intel at 0x90200000 irq 58
Audio devices:
0: STAC92xx Analog (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: SigmaTel STAC9227
lsmod (sound-related modules)
snd_hda_intel 17332 0
snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 38368 0
snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 68644 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 20996 1 snd_pcm
snd 47012 7 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9248 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9640 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
uname -a
Linux foobar 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 16:41:14 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
Under /proc/asound/card0 were 3 files (codec#2, id, and oss_mixer) and 3
directories (pcm0c, pcm0p, pcm1c, and pcm1p). There were 33 more files
under these directories. All 36 files were 0 bytes.
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