Re: Getting sound working
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:38:17 -0500
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> 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
Run a mixer (e.g., alsamixer) and check to make sure nothing's muted
and that the volumes are set to reasonable levels.
Celejar
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