Re: Lack of sound
work for me,
# alsactl init
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Cirrus Logic CS4206"
"HDA:10134206,106b1d00,00100301" "0x8086" "0x7270"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
Few days ago my laptop just become dumb.
we might have different hardware. sorry.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:03 PM, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
> as root run
> alsactl init
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Sharon Kimble <skimble04@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This gives command not found.
>>
>> Sharon.
>>
>> On 21 December 2011 12:41, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> # alsactl init
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Sharon Kimble <skimble04@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I've already reinstalled vlc and it made no difference, I did sudo
>>>> apt-get remove vlc, sudo apt-get autoremove, sudo apt-get purge, sudo
>>>> apt-get install vlc and just let it pull things in that it required.
>>>>
>>>> I think that i've tried virtually every sound menu item available on
>>>> vlc but all to no avail, sorry.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Sharon.
>>>>
>>>> On 21 December 2011 05:35, Porcia Silvia <esculentum@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:30:02 +0100
>>>>> Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>am now using alsa. The problem occurred when we
>>>>>> were trying to debug a problem with playing mp4 films on VLC, my
>>>>>> preferred programme for playing and watching films.
>>>>>
>>>>> It may be something as simple as selecting the correct 'device' in VLC in the
>>>>> menu items of audio in VLC..the reason I say this is I had a similar problem
>>>>> not long ago and this was the solution. VLC tends to select the system
>>>>> default. As you've just changed over from pulseaudio to ALSA try reinstalling
>>>>> VLC again perhaps or check the menu for the output device and select the
>>>>> correct one.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't suppose you meant to say you were trying to watch mp4 films..did you
>>>>> mean mp4 files? If this was the case, I'm not sure VLC will play mp4..isn't
>>>>> that a proprietary encoding from Nero?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just curious.
>>>>>
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