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skrapasor
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 Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:55 pm Post subject: Is there a way to check sound output without speakers? |
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| I don't know whether the speakers aren't connected correctly or my sound card is just not outputting anything... so can I check that somehow? Basically, my problem is I can't get sound out of my computer. 01:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS. I ran alsa-config and let it do everything by itself, and I modprobed for snd_emu10k1, is there anything else I should do? |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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skrapasor,
Its safe to test by plugging your speakers into each connector on your sound card in turn.
However, they are normally colour coded. The front stereo pair should be connected to the pale green connector.
To check your ALSA setup, look in /dev/snd you should see files like | Code: | | controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D1c timer pcmC0D0p pcmC0D2p seq |
exactly what you get is sound card dependant but you should have the controlC0 and at least one ending in 'p' for playback.
If thats missing, your kernel and modules are not set up correctly. Pleas post your lspci output.
If all is well so far, keep reading. Is your normal user in the audio group?
Check with the groups command. If you want to play audio CDs, you need to be in the cdrom group too.
Lastly for testing, run alsamixer and mute all controls except Master and PCM and set the sliders to about 70%
Play some sounds - you should hear something from the front speakers.
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skrapasor
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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localhost ~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:01.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
01:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
what's weird though... its getting to the speakers its just extremely quiet. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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skrapasor,
You have | Code: | | 01:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS |
make menuconfig suggests you need | Code: | | <M> SB Audigy LS / Live 24bit |
rather than | Code: | | <M> Emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy, E-mu APS) |
but I am aware that both the ca0106 and emu10k1 sound chips were used in your card.
Building both drivers is harmless - other than looking at the writing on the top of the sound chip, its the only way to check.
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skrapasor
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| so what should i do? |
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skrapasor
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Seriously I will let you have access to my computer I don't know what I am doing... I tried removing all OSS modules but that didn't help anything. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| skrapasor wrote: | | Seriously I will let you have access to my computer I don't know what I am doing... I tried removing all OSS modules but that didn't help anything. |
Seriously even if that issue is like a PITA you never ever should give somebody from the internet access to your computer - and even more not "only" for sound. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| But I have nothing valuable... no credit card numbers... I wouldn't care if he rm -fr /... what else could I be worried about? All he would know is my password for my root user. So what else could he do? |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Whatever happened to trust? |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| See the thing is, without sound the computer is barely usable to me... |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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skrapasor,
Asking random people to have your root password is a really bad idea.
You should add | Code: | | <M> SB Audigy LS / Live 24bit |
to your kernel, using make menuconfig, then do | Code: | make modules
make modules_install
modprobe snd_ca0106 |
and test your sound again.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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skrapasor,
Heres some more detail:-
Runand make a note of the date/time it shows. We will use it for checking later.
Do | Code: | cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig |
to get into your kernel setup and check the following settings:-
| Code: | <M> Sound card support --->
│ │ --- Sound card support │ │
│ │ <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> │ │
│ │ < > Open Sound System (DEPRECATED) ---> |
Then in the <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> menu:-
| Code: | │ │ --- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture │ │
│ │ <M> Sequencer support │ │
│ │ <M> Sequencer dummy client │ │
│ │ <M> OSS Mixer API │ │
│ │ <M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API │ │
│ │ [*] OSS PCM (digital audio) API - Include plugin system │ │
│ │ [*] OSS Sequencer API │ │
│ │ [ ] Dynamic device file minor numbers │ │
│ │ [*] Support old ALSA API │ │
│ │ [ ] Verbose procfs contents │ │
│ │ [ ] Verbose printk │ │
│ │ [ ] Debug │ │
│ │ [ ] Generic sound devices ---> │ │
│ │ [*] PCI sound devices ---> │ │
│ │ [*] USB sound devices ---> │ │
│ │ < > ALSA for SoC audio support ---> |
Its essential that | Code: | │ │ [ ] Verbose procfs contents │ │
│ │ [ ] Verbose printk │ │
│ │ [ ] Debug │ │ |
are off - those settings are for developers.
│ │ [ ] Generic sound devices ---> │ │ should also be off but it won't stop your sound from working, it will make it more difficult to confiure.
The settings above with OSS in their name give you ALSAs emulated OSS interface. They are not needed on a pure ALSA system but sadly, not everying is ALSA aware yet. They also depend on the next bit. In the [*] PCI sound devices ---> menu, choose :-
| Code: | <M> SB Audigy LS / Live 24bit
<M> Emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy, E-mu APS) |
ans set all the other options off. You only need these two because I not sure which of these modules your card needs.
Check you settings once more, save the new config file and rebuild and reinstall your kernel. When you boot into it, run Check the date/time against the one you noted at the start. It should be different, its the kernel build time. IF its the same, you are still running the old kernel and we need to fix that before making further progress.
Now you need the user space tools. Follow the ALSA Guide with one exception, do *NOT* emerge alsa-drivers. alsa-drivers provides the same functionality as the kernel alsa that we set up earlier.
The instructions in the ALSA Guide should allow you to complete you sound setup.
Good luck - post back with any problems.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay I saved that .config file, but when I run "make menuconfig" again I have to manually load it... which makes me thing that when I run "make all" it doesn't automatically load the file I just saved. And when I ran "make all" I checked and it didn't do some of the modules that I selected. How do I run make using a certain .config file? |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I just did it again without saving a separate .config, I just went to exit and saved it. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Alright I did that and followed the whole guide and still nothing. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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skrapasor,
What does show ?
What is the content of
What is in
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| Code: | skrapasor@localhost ~ $ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP Fri Jan 2 14:56:02 EST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
skrapasor@localhost ~ $ ls /dev/snd
controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D1c pcmC0D2c pcmC0D3c seq
midiC0D0 pcmC0D0p pcmC0D1p pcmC0D2p pcmC0D3p timer
skrapasor@localhost ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_midi 13856 0
snd_seq_dummy 10884 0
snd_seq_oss 33664 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14720 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50416 6 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 39712 0
snd_mixer_oss 20864 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_emu10k1 124864 0
snd_util_mem 12288 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 14468 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ca0106 36320 0
snd_rawmidi 27040 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ca0106
snd_seq_device 14732 6 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 97824 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_ca0106
snd_pcm 67588 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 26504 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd 55076 12 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_hwdep,snd_ca0106,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 15752 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm
i915 34048 0
drm 74792 1 i915
ipv6 224164 16
e100 37772 0
eepro100 34064 0
mii 13184 2 e100,eepro100
ac97_bus 9856 1 snd_ac97_codec
ppdev 14852 0
floppy 56004 0
iTCO_wdt 18212 0
iTCO_vendor_support 11780 1 iTCO_wdt
i2c_i801 16528 0
i2c_core 28948 1 i2c_i801
pcspkr 10624 0
shpchp 33812 0
pci_hotplug 32160 1 shpchp
ehci_hcd 37388 0
thermal 23836 0
parport_pc 41028 0
parport 39660 2 ppdev,parport_pc
uhci_hcd 27280 0
usbcore 125680 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
processor 42284 1 thermal
intel_agp 31300 1
button 14480 0
agpgart 38356 2 drm,intel_agp
thermal_sys 17832 2 thermal,processor
dcdbas 14624 0
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:22 am Post subject: |
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skrapasor,
Thats all good. So your kernel is in good shape.
Do | Code: | | /etc/init.d/alsasound restart |
then post the /etc/asound.state so I can see how your controls are set.
If | Code: | | /etc/init.d/alsasound restart |
fails, do | Code: | rc-update add alsasound default
/etc/init.d/alsasound start
/etc/init.d/alsasound restart |
Thats the service that preserves your settings over reboots by writing and reading /etc/asound.state.
Theres no hurry - this is my last post tonight.
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| Code: | localhost ~ # cat /etc/asound.state
state.CA0106 {
control.1 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'Analog Front Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
}
control.2 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'Analog Rear Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
}
control.3 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'Analog Center/LFE Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
}
control.4 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'Analog Side Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
}
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Front Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
}
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Rear Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
}
control.7 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Center/LFE Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
}
control.8 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Unknown Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
}
control.9 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'CAPTURE feedback Playback Volume'
value.0 128
value.1 128
}
control.10 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Mask'
value ffffffff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
}
control.11 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Mask'
index 1
value ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
}
control.12 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Mask'
index 2
value ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
}
control.13 {
comment.access read
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Mask'
index 3
value ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
}
control.14 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Switch'
value true
}
control.15 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.count 1
comment.item.0 'IEC958 out'
comment.item.1 'i2s mixer out'
comment.item.2 'IEC958 in'
comment.item.3 'i2s in'
comment.item.4 'AC97 in'
comment.item.5 'SRC out'
iface MIXER
name 'Digital Source Capture Enum'
value 'i2s in'
}
control.16 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.count 1
comment.item.0 Phone
comment.item.1 Mic
comment.item.2 'Line in'
comment.item.3 Aux
iface MIXER
name 'Analog Source Capture Enum'
value 'Line in'
}
control.17 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
value '049210020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000'
}
control.18 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
index 1
value '04921002000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
}
control.19 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
index 2
value '04921002000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
}
control.20 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type IEC958
comment.count 1
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
index 3
value '049210020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000'
}
control.21 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -10350
comment.dbmax 2400
iface MIXER
name 'Phone Capture Volume'
value.0 207
value.1 207
}
control.22 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -10350
comment.dbmax 2400
iface MIXER
name 'Mic Capture Volume'
value.0 0
value.1 0
}
control.23 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -10350
comment.dbmax 2400
iface MIXER
name 'Line in Capture Volume'
value.0 207
value.1 207
}
control.24 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -10350
comment.dbmax 2400
iface MIXER
name 'Aux Capture Volume'
value.0 207
value.1 207
}
control.25 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.count 1
comment.item.0 'Line in'
comment.item.1 'Mic in'
iface MIXER
name 'Shared Mic/Line in Capture Switch'
value 'Line in'
}
}
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skrapasor | Code: | state.CA0106
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control.14 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
comment.count 1
iface MIXER
name 'IEC958 Playback Switch'
value true |
This tells us that yor sound chip us a ca0106, not a emu10k1 and that you have set up your card to play sounds over the digital output, which is not what you want. In alsamixer, find the control called 'IEC958 Playback Switch' and turn it off. You will need to turn off (mute) all controls that have IEC958 in their names - these controls all relate to digital output and yu don't want any of that.
Most sound cards can do either digital or analogue output but few can do both at the same time and digital takes priority, it its on, analogue is off.
How to read this file | Code: | control.1 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type INTEGER
comment.count 2
comment.range '0 - 255'
comment.dbmin -5175
comment.dbmax 1200
iface MIXER
name 'Analog Front Playback Volume'
value.0 255
value.1 255
} |
The comments are just that - alsa ignores them but they provide information to human readers.
iface - MIXER its a mixer type interface
name 'Analog Front Playback Volume' - this is what you see as the control name in alsamixer
value.0 255 the left slider is full up (255)
value.1 255 the right slider is full up (255)
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| I can't find anything called 'IEC958 Playback Switch,' but if I use the volume control panel in XFCE it's there. All I could find was something that just said "IEC958," and I muted that along with all the other IEC958 settings. But when I check asound.state the playback switch is still on, so maybe I will just have to change it in XCFE. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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skrapasor,
The file /etc/asound.state is written only when the alsasound service is stopped and its read when the service starts.
You can force the write/read by doing | Code: | | /etc/init.d/alsasound restart |
If you want to edit the file and have your edits take effect, you need to do
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/alsasound stop |
so the file is written.
Edit the file
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/alsasound start |
If you mess up, delete the file. Starting alsasound with a blank or missing /etc/asound.state will mute everything ans turn the sliders down.
Actually, thats not such a bad idea. Do | Code: | /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
mv /etc/asound.state /etc/asound.state_broken
/etc/init.d/alsasound start |
Now we have everything muted and your old state saved in /etc/asound.state_broken
Unmute and set the sliders to about 70% *only* 'Analog Front Playback Volume', that will be the pale green connector on your sound card.
Does that work ?
If not, do | Code: | | /etc/init.d/alsasound restart |
and post the new /etc/asound.state file
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skrapasor
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| OMG THANK YOU! I actually took the monitor off the computer and have been accessing through ssh... and I ran mpg123 on some mp3 and it works! Oh yeah and I had the speaker connected to the dark green, not the pale green, and it didn't work until I switched it to the pale green. Even if you had control of my computer you couldn't have done that remotely. Thanks so much for your help! You are the most kind, helpful, and persistent person I have ever talked to on a forum. If anyone needs help getting their sound working, this is the thread. You went through every possible step with me. Again, thanks so much! |
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NeddySeagoon
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skrapasor,
Now it works, you can practice breaking it under control
As you have the front stereo working, you can operate the other controls in alsamixer to observe their effect.
Some will stop it working. When you know what they are, by testing slowly, one at a time, leave them set for working.
You have also learned how to recover a working state, that makes it much easier.
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