Re: Tool to configure sound
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:48:16 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:59:14AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >
> > I don't see anything obvious, but the names and the functions of the
> > ALSA controls are always a bit counterintuitive to me. (Also, for added
> > fun, they are different for every card.)
>
> In this case there are not too many of them, only 'PCM', 'Front',
> 'Line', 'Mic', 'IEC958', 'Capture', 'Capture', 'Input So', 'Input So.'
>
> > You could keep speaker-test running in one terminal while using
> > "alsamixer" in another terminal to play with the controls until you hear
> > sound.
>
> That was fun. I think I tried every permutation. PCM has only volume;
> Front, Line, and Mic have volume and mute; IEC958 has only mute; the two
> Captures have volume and <space> toggles a display of
> L R
> CAPTUR
> beneath, whatever that may mean (stereo on and off?); the two Input So.
> have only the option to be Line or Mic.
>
> Anyway, it remains steadfastly silent in every conceivable state while
> speaker-test continues to say
> Time per period = 2,986811
> 0 - Front Left
> and so on.
OK, changing mixer settings does not help; there must be a more
fundamental problem with the driver or the hardware.
> It is not hardware, I have booted Doze a couple of times, and that gives
> nasty little jingles.
OK, so the hardware works.
> Never mind -- I'll buy a phonograph, a soft cloth and scour the
> second-hand markets for vinyl...
To keep yourself entertained until you get the phonograph, you could
post the output of these commands:
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | head
grep '.*' /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/*
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