Getting sound working
I've purposely not used sound in my linux setups for yrs... never had
much need of sound... and only really needed it for my video editing
work which is done with Adobe tools and therefore all on windows.
Anyway, cutting to the chase... like I said its been literally yrs
since I even thought about sound on linux... now I'm kind of lost as
to how to test, configure debug, etc.
Trying to play a wav file with mplayer, it seems to play the file just
fine except I hear nothing.
My audio hardware is the hugely common, at least on older PCs, AC'97.
And I seem to have a herd of modules running that appear sound
related. (See the output of lspci and lsmod below).
Maybe its just a question of turning something on or setting volume
somewhere?
------- --------- ---=--- --------- --------
lspci |grep audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
------- --------- ---=--- --------- --------
And I seem to have a whole herd of modules that are apparently sound
related.
lsmod |grep snd
snd_intel8x0 22382 5
snd_ac97_codec 84197 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 12462 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 53315 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq 39539 0
snd_timer 22027 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 12985 1 snd_seq
snd 38562 15 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq,
soundcore 12992 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 12899 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
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