Re: Sound Problem

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 02:06:21PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> On 03/11/2017 01:42 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 09:39:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > aplay -L should give you a list of possible outputs, one of
> > which  you can then feed to speaker-test via -D to test.
> > 
> > Then you can set this in /etc/asound.conf as a default. Mine
> > says
> > 
> > defaults.pcm.card 0
> > defaults.pcm.device 3
> > defaults.ctl.card 0
> > 
> > -dsr-
> > 
> > 
> Thanks for the reply.  I had pretty well convinced myself that it's a
> software problem,  and therein lies the rub (or, rather a very high degree
> of entropy (mixedupness)).
> 
> Here is what might be the applicable portion on the output from aplay -L:
> 
> sysdefault:CARD=SB
>     HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
>     Default Audio Device
> front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
>     HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
>     Front speakers
> surround21:CARD=SB,DEV=0
>     HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
>     2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
> surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
>     HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
>     4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
> surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
>     HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
>     4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
>     HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
>     5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
> surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
>     HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
>     5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
>     HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog
>     7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers

I would try 

speaker-test -D front 

and see if that comes out the right device.

-dsr-