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I've gone literally for yrs with no sound on my desktop machines.... I |
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rarely find a need for it. |
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But now I'm trying to take some online courses and find trying to work |
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on windows machine when coding and other sorts of editor intensive |
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stuff is involved... I really feel much more adept on linux. |
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Anyway cutting to the chase... its been so long since I even looked |
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into gettting sound working.. I'm sort of stunned at the realization I |
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have no clue at all as to how to get started. |
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I hoped to avoid reading acres of documentation. Starting way at the |
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bottom etc etc. |
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Hoping some kind sole will take the time to provide a brief outline |
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off the top of there head... how to get started and cut right to the |
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chase in an hour or two. |
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My setup is profile x86/2008.0 |
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On this architecture and kernel <past the `-r1' is my own versioning |
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Linux reader 2.6.30-gentoo-r1_rdr_5 #6 [...]i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) |
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CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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I try to keep within a week or two being up to date most of the time. |
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I've got speakers hooked up at back of the machine in the `green' |
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hole. |
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I get nothing sound wise when attempting to play a music or video |
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file. |
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Neither do I see any errors: mplayer some.wav from a cmdprompt shows |
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the file playing... but I'm hearing nothing. |
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Below are a few chunks of info that hopefully will be useful to |
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someone diagnostically: |
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My kernel has also enabled pci sound devices/: |
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<M> (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 |
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<M> (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 |
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lspci -vv shows this item: |
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00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER |
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(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) |
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Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2-V |
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(MS-6788) Mainboard |
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Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- |
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Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- |
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Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- |
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<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- |
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Latency: 0 |
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Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 12 |
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Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] |
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Region 1: I/O ports at d800 [size=64] |
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Region 2: Memory at febffa00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] |
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Region 3: Memory at febff900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] |
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Capabilities: <access denied> |
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Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH |
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Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 |