Re: Dell Vostro 1700 sound problem

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 21:16:26 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 20:45 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 23:22:28 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> > > > lspci | egrep -i 'audio|sound|media'
> > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
> > 
> > I have the same card, and I also run Sid-amd64.
> > 
> > > > lsmod | grep snd
> > > snd_hda_intel         311968  0 
> > > snd_pcm_oss            48288  0 
> > > snd_mixer_oss          21376  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > > snd_pcm                89992  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
> > > snd_timer              28424  1 snd_pcm
> > > snd                    65896  5
> > > snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> > > soundcore              13088  1 snd
> > > snd_page_alloc         14608  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> > 
> > I see the same modules loaded and sound works.
> > 
> > > > amixer | egrep -i '^[^ ]|.*playback'
> > > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
> > 
> > Is you user a member of the "audio" group? Can root run this command?
> Yes, he (my user) is, and no,  he (root) cannot .....

Do the sound device nodes exist at all? What do you see with

ls -ld /dev/snd/ /dev/snd/*

?

(As far as I know, amixer prints the above error message if
 /dev/snd/controlC0 does not exist or if it is not readable/writable by
 the current user.)

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