On Friday 08 September 2006 17:09, Mark Priestley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:57:02PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > > Please can somebody help. I've reached the stage of desperation. > > I've compiled the via drivers and alsa into the kernel and > > installed the alsa library, plug-ins, utilities and alsa oss. I've > > run the speaker-test and played a wav file and everything on the > > terminal screen looks good. I have not been able to get any > > failures, but I still cannot get any sound from the speakers. I've > > tested the speakers and cable on another box and they are good. > > Does anybody know what the problem could be? It must be something > > simple that's eluding me. > > Have you unmuted the speakers? By default they start out muted, I > think. You can use alsamixer to unmute them. > > Mark
Once I had the similar problem. The following commands are what helped me. amixer set PCM unmute amixer set PCM 26 amixer set Master unmute amixer set Master 100% They are nothing special but just are one of the possible implementations of the ideas suggested in these messages. -- Nothing but perfection pv -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
