No sound using alsa intel8x0 on a i845 chipset

Joffer · Last edited by Joffer on Fri Jan 17, 2003 9:41 pm; edited 2 times in total

Title waschanged from: "i845 => alsa driver is intel8x0? = no sound

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I've got a Compaq Evo W4000 Workstation with a i845 chipset and intergrated sound.

I've gone through the Gentoo ALSA doc:

sebgarden · Guru Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 353

You probably missed the point (RTFM once again

): emul0kl has to be replaced with the name of your driver. Follow the link alsa sound matrix and you will be able to find the name of your alsa sound driver: snd-intel8x0; don't be disturbed by the title: your card is not in the table but the unified intel driver does the work for yours also.

Regards,
Sébastien.

Joffer · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:20 am Post subject:

No, I did of course replace 'emul0kl' with 'intel8x0'. The text above was just a typo, it was me in a hurry copy-pasting from the docs to show what I did..

But anyways, what you say just comply with what I thought to be correct, that I should use the intel8x0 driver. And perhaps I should go through the alsa doc once more just to be sure.

Joffer · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 9:39 pm Post subject:

I really hate to bug the forum.. but I simply can't get any sound when playing wav or mp3 (the only thing I've tried so far).

Trying to play a wav file with aplay (as alsa-doc said) and also mp3 with mpg123. I can't get any sound. I've unmuted and raised the volume, both in console and in X (gnome).

I'm using the intel8x0 alsa driver, and done everything the alsa-doc says (twice to be sure I'm doing it correct).

This is frustrating. Any command I should run to get more information to this thread? That can help any of you help me diagnostic this problem?

Joffer · Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 5:55 am Post subject: Fixed

Finally. I fixed it. Strange solution though. I got the tip from this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27928

What was "wrong" was that the "Headphones" setting in alsamixer was muted. When I unmuted it everything went fine. So the tip for people who have problems getting any sound, but the drivers seems to work, is to start playing some music, like 'mpg123 somefile.mp3' and then start alsamixer (in another console perhaps) and unmute (press 'm') the each channel till you get sound. Remember to turn down the volume on your speakers and also a bit in also, so you won't hurt your ears and speakers, like I almost did, since all volume was at max!!

megalomax · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 52 Location: germany

Oh man, this kept me busy for some days now.

I do have the exact same machine and couldn't figure out how to get a beep from it using alsa.

The muted headphone thing was the problem indeed!

Your the man, Joffer

BTW: the other guy who mentioned it in the first place...

holymacaroni · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 63

wow, it worked for me too after reading this post. funky, but at least i have sound now. thanks.

sarcaman · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 17

fixed for me too, after many days of head scratching.

THANKS!!!

Jerle · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 16

Alsa seems to mute odd things. I'm using the integrated SoundMax Cadenza on my intel board, and for me I had to unmute the 'Surround' Control.

In a pinch, you can always just try unmuting everything. That's what I did.

SuperV · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 44 Location: Arizona

That was it for me too, a Dell GX150 with the i815 chipset, sure enough the headphones were muted. Good work tracking this one down...perhaps a secondary tip should go into the alsa doc on this one (unmute everything!)