Re: Tool to configure sound

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

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 22:00:43 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:52:59AM +1100, Charlie wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Lyons shared this with us all:
> [...]
> > >--} Lucky man!  I wish it would work for my Acer laptop!  Still, I suppose
> > >--} after all these years I should know better than to expect sound on a
> > >--} laptop. I see I have 3 modules loaded that you don't have, maybe it's
> > >--} something to do with them.
> > >--}
> > >--} snd_hda_intel          17140  0
> > >--} snd_hda_codec         126496  1 snd_hda_intel
> > >--} snd_pcm_oss            35968  0
> > >--} snd_mixer_oss          15872  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > >--} snd_pcm                74532  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > >--} snd_timer              20836  1 snd_pcm
> > >--} snd                    48100  6
> > >--} snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> > >--} soundcore               9216  1 snd
> > >--} snd_page_alloc          9512  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> > >--}
> > >--} Still, it's all way over my head...
> > 
> > I have two Acer laptops and both have sound configured and working using 
> > alsaconf, have you tried it?
> 
> A hundred times.  It says ALSA is ready to use, and wishes me a lot of
> fun.   As long as it's happy...  
> In fact the link given earlier in the thread to
>     http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux
> says:
>     Alsaconf is so buggy that it is best not to use it at the moment
>     (according to [bug no 432678]).
> 
>     You now have to use udevtrigger instead of alsaconf.
> 
> But that did nothing useful either as far as I could tell.
> 
> Mine is an Acer Aspire 1640Z, FWIW.

What happens if you run "speaker-test", do you get an error message or
is it just not producing any sound?

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