I really wish that I could get rid of my "rustiness" without appealing
to the list. I thought most of it was gone, but apparently it's not.
I'd like to get some help getting my sound to work.
The low-level beeps and "announcements" from the kernel and xfce4 work
fine. In fact, I made them louder with alsamixer. I just finished
installing alsa-1.0.27.2 up to and not including
alsa-{tools,firmware}-1.0.27.2. Thus far the only thing that
<speaker-test> gives me is silence and messages. Here are the messages:
> speaker-test 1.0.27.2
>
> Playback device is default
> Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
> Using 16 octaves of pink noise
> Channels count (1) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument
> Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argument
I tried <speaker-test -c 6 -l 1> and get the same messages, but for six
channels. I added myself to the audio group and receive this output
whether I run the command as root or me. To forestall the question, I
have "unmuted" all the playback stuff in alsamixer, and I check it just
before I run the test. And here are the results of <speaker-test> from
the Ubuntu side of my set-up:
> speaker-test 1.0.27.1
>
> Playback device is default
> Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
> Using 16 octaves of pink noise
> Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
> Buffer size range from 192 to 2097152
> Period size range from 64 to 699051
> Using max buffer size 2097152
> Periods = 4
> was set period_size = 524288
> was set buffer_size = 2097152
> 0 - Front Left
> Time per period = 10.952704
> 0 - Front Left
> Time per period = 10.946154
and with that I can hear the "pink" noise, but I don't know how to "copy
'n paste" that. :)
<lspci | grep Audio> gives:
> 00:01.1 Audio device: AMD/ATI [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] Trinity
> HDMI Audio Controller
> 00:14.2 Audio device: AMD [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] FCH Azalia
> Controller (rev 01)
and I have set the analog controller to the default.
<aplay -L> gives:
> null
> Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
> hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
> HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0
> HDMI Audio Output
> sysdefault:CARD=Generic
> HD-Audio Generic, 92HD91BXX Analog
> Default Audio Device
> front:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
> HD-Audio Generic, 92HD91BXX Analog
> Front speakers
I did not include each repeat for the other "surround" speakers. The
wording is the same.
I have found no info, other than what I have already done, to lead me in
any other direction.
The only addition and possibly relevant info is that my HP laptop, HP
ENVY m6 Sleekbook, has "Beats Audio." I don't know if I need to install
or do anything other than alsa. I want to use the minimal number of
packages to get the functionality that I'd like. I do know that Ubuntu
uses pulse-audio. Additionally, I found this "HowTo"
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17sov5/
It uses "jack" to "re-pin" the speakers. "JACK" and pulseaudio are
listed as "optional" dependencies for alsa-plugins. If I need one or
both of these, I want to install them. If they're not absolutely
necessary, I'd like to get this configured "as is."
I will be grateful for any feed back.
Dan
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