Can anyone help? I'm out of ideas.
Chris On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 12:12 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: > I'm trying to get the sound to work on my new Gateway MX3410 notebook. > I've installed Gentoo and followed the instructions on their site for > setting up ALSA. Alsaconf detects my card and the drivers load, but > there is no sound. Of course, I checked the setting with alsamixer and > unmuted the master playback volume control. I tried playing an MP3 with > madplay as both myself and root. No errors from madplay, but no music > either. KDE no longer complains about the sound system at startup, but > no sound there either. > > I've tried the drivers that came with kernel (2.6.17-gentoo-r4; > 1.0.11rc4) as well as the latest stable drivers (1.0.11). > > I don't seem to have many mixer controls: > > Output: Master (unmuted, 100%); PCM (100%); Capture Mux (0%) > Input: Capture (off, 0%); Capture Mux (on, 0%) > Switches: IEC958 (off); Input Source (Front Mic) > > I've played with these setting to no avail. Also, my notebook has an > output for headphones, but there is no control for this; is that normal? > There's no sound from the headphones either. > > Some information is listed below. > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > # lspci -s 00:10.1 -vv > 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) > Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0317 > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max) > Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 217 > Region 0: Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 > Enable- > Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 > Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping > # cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia > HDA NVidia at 0xb0000000 irq 217 > # lsmod > Module Size Used by > snd_pcm_oss 40352 0 > snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_seq_oss 33024 0 > snd_seq_midi_event 7936 1 snd_seq_oss > snd_seq 50000 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_seq_device 8972 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > pcspkr 3968 0 > forcedeth 28300 0 > snd_hda_intel 19476 1 > snd_hda_codec 131888 1 snd_hda_intel > snd_pcm 81028 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec > snd_timer 23556 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > snd 51940 11 > snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer > snd_page_alloc 10760 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > [...] > # cat /etc/modules.d/alsa > # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. > # > $Header: > /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v > 1.5 2006/06/13 10:18:25 uberlord Exp $ > > # ALSA portion > # OSS/Free portion > > ## > ## IMPORTANT: > ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) > ## and then run `modules-update' command. > ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. > ## > ## ALSA portion > ## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave > ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 > ## OSS/Free portion > ## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 > ## > > # OSS/Free portion - card #1 > ## OSS/Free portion - card #2 > ## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss > ## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss > ## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss > > alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss > alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss > alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss > > # Set this to the correct number of cards. > # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.11 --- > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel > alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > # equery list alsa > [ Searching for package 'alsa' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11 (0) > [I--] [ ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.4 (0.10) > [I--] [ ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.11 (0) > [I--] [ ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11 (0) > [I--] [ ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.11 (0.9) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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