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Re: Sound on Squeeze



On Ma, 29 mai 12, 21:57:36, Lisi wrote:
> 
> john@Squeeze:/proc/asound$ amixer
> Simple mixer control 'Master',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 64
>   Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]

Master is max and unmuted, good

> Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume penum
>   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 255
>   Mono:
>   Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
>   Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]

PCM is max (no mute control), good

> Simple mixer control 'Front',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
>   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 64
>   Mono:
>   Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [on]
>   Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [on]

For 'Front' you have 0 volume, you should max it as well.

[snip other controls]

> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Mono: Playback [off]
> Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Mono: Playback [on]

These two you might need if you connect your PC via SPDIF or toslink 
(but you would know if you did that).

> Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
>   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
>   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>   Limits: Playback 0 - 31
>   Mono:
>   Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
>   Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]

This might enable system beeps, but not necessary for your problem now.

[snip other controls]
 
> john@Squeeze:/proc/asound$ aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 
> Digital]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Looks good.

> > Does 'speaker-test' look like it's doing something?
> 
> Yes, a lot.  I just can't hear it.

Ok, let 'speaker-text -c2' run in a terminal and try adjusting the 
'Front' control. Make sure your speakers or headphones or whatever are 
connected and any volume control turned at least half way up.

If this is a laptop make sure to also play with any dedicated volume 
control on it. These are sometimes not connected to the alsa volume 
controls. Also beware that I've seen two types of mute controls on 
laptops:
1. toggle (press again to unmute)
2. zero-volume (press volume up several times to increase the level 
again)

You got it right when you hear hissing (pink) noise alternating from the 
left and right speaker/headphone/etc.

Hope this helps,
Andrei
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