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On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Harry Putnam<reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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 |
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Well... here we go then, the order I check things myself: |
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1) Drivers. According to your lspci output there, your kernel already |
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has the drivers for the card |
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-- |
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Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH |
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and so that's covered. |
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2) Are the needed channels muted? Once you unmute them, assuming |
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alsa-utils is installed and the alsa service is started, the volumes |
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and muted/unmuted state should be saved between reboots (configurable |
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in /etc/conf.d/). |
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3) ... I rarely get this far. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |