Re: Can't get sound to work

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2015 21:28:30, Robert Latest wrote :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over
> > the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't
> > hear anything unless I use aplay with -D hw:0,0 but setting that in the
> > configuration file doesn't help. No other sound-outputting program
> > works. Here's a shell excerpt:
> >
> > bl@dotcom:~$ aplay test.wav           # can't hear nothing
> > bl@dotcom:~$ aplay -D hw:0,0 test.wav # this plays sound
> > bl@dotcom:~$ cat .asoundrc
> > cat: .asoundrc: No such file or directory
> > bl@dotcom:~$ cat /etc/asound.conf
> > pcm.!default {
> >         type hw
> >         card 0
> >         device 0
> > }
> > bl@dotcom:~$ aplay -l
> > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> > card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1984 Analog [AD1984 Analog]
> >   Subdevices: 1/1
> >   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> > card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: AD1984 Alt Analog [AD1984 Alt
> > Analog]
> >   Subdevices: 1/1
> >   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> > bl@dotcom:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
> >  0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
> >                       HDA Intel at 0xfe9dc000 irq 45
> > bl@dotcom:~$
>
> Sound has been missing on my wheezy for some time until your mail prompted
> me to investigate it.
>
> Running aplay test.wav produces no sound.
>
> The output of aplay -l is:
>
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: HDMI_1 [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: HDMI_1 [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: HDMI_1 [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: 92HD91BXX Analog [92HD91BXX Analog]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> Running aplay -D hw:1,0 test.wav reports an error and produces no sound:
>
> Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono
> aplay: set_params:1087: Channels count non available
>
> But sound started to work fine after I edited $HOME/.asoundrc like this:
>
> pcm.!default {
>   type plug
>   slave {
>     pcm "hw:1,0"
>   }
> }
> ctl.!default {
>   type hw
>   card 1
> }
>
> The symptoms are not the same as yours. aplay doesn't play sound when I
> select the PCM device on the command line. But, with audacity, if I
> explicitly select ALSA as output and device hw:1,0, sound comes out. So, I
> may have another problem that prevents aplay from running when the PCM
> device is specified and the above solution may still help you.
>
> BTW, I have pulseaudio installed in case it matters.

So the advice is to have alsa and pulseaudio?

Lisi