No Master channel is alsamixer

biboo · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 30

I have a F3JM Asus notebook with a HDA Intel sound card (Realtek ALC660 chipset).

I'm running gentoo under the kernel version 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 and the installed version of alsa-driver is 1.0.14_rc1. But this gives me a crappy sound and the Master channel value is not modifiable. I'm currently using the PCM channel to deal with the volume. But I know that the bad quality of my sound is not due to a too high value for the PCM channel because even with it set to 3% the sound is still bad.

The gentoo wiki has a howto for this laptop and mention this problem but no workaround is given. (There's a screenshot looking like my alsamixer there)

Thanks for reading it and I would be very happy if someone knows a fix for this.

shrimp123 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 199 Location: Here!

did u start alsasound?

/etc/init.d/alsasound restart

then check alsamixer

i have the hda_intel, realtek 861. If i dont start alsasound, i dont get mixer. Since i dont have modules (monolothic kernel) i use
alsactl -f /etc/asound.state restore 0

for that, u need to make sure u have the correct /etc/asound.state

S

nardew · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 93

i've got nb with the same sound card and afaik, we will have to wait until alsa releases the correct drivers for our card
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biboo · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 30

Yeah, alsasound is started.

So it seems that you're right, nardew...

Anyway, thank you for your answers