On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:14:25 +0100 Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es> shared this with us all:
>On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 22:55:51 +1100, Charlie wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:23:01 +0100 Florian Kulzer shared this with >> us all: >> >On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 15:04:10 +1100, Charlie wrote: >> >> >> >> Always had trouble getting sound to work with Debian, never had it >> >> working with Squeeze, though I might see if I could get it going >> >> again: >> >> >> >> Acer 3614WLCi laptop >> >> >> >> $ lspci | grep -i audio >> >> 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation >> >> 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev >> >> 03) >> > >> >[ snip: it seems that your system has loaded the relevant modules ] >> > >> >> $ cat /proc/asound/cards >> >> 0 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6 >> >> Intel ICH6 with ALC655 at irq 21 >> >> 1 [pcsp ]: PC-Speaker - pcsp >> >> Internal PC-Speaker at port 0x61 >> >> 2 [Modem ]: ICH-MODEM - Intel ICH6 Modem >> >> Intel ICH6 Modem at irq 21 > >[...] > >> speaker-test -t sine -c 2 >> >> speaker-test 1.0.21 >> >> Playback device is default >> Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels >> Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz >> Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) >> Buffer size range from 2048 to 8192 >> Period size range from 1024 to 1024 >> Using max buffer size 8192 >> Periods = 4 >> was set period_size = 1024 >> was set buffer_size = 8192 >> 0 - Front Left >> 1 - Front Right >> Time per period = 5.822096 >> >> This goes on until I kill it but no sound. > >The system acts as if everything is alright, so you do not have a >problem with some daemon blocking access to the device. > >Time to look at the mixer settings; please post the output of: > >aplay -lL > >amixer Thanks Florian, Here it is: ............................................ aplay -lL default:CARD=ICH6 Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 Default Audio Device front:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 Front speakers surround40:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers iec958:CARD=ICH6,DEV=0 Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 - IEC958 IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=pcsp pcsp, pcsp Default Audio Device front:CARD=pcsp,DEV=0 pcsp, pcsp Front speakers **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: pcsp [pcsp], device 0: pcspeaker [pcsp] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: Modem [Intel ICH6 Modem], device 0: Intel ICH - Modem [Intel ICH6 Modem - Modem] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 .................................................... amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 15 [48%] [-24.00dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 15 [48%] [-24.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Master Mono',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 15 [48%] [-24.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 15 [48%] [-24.00dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 15 [48%] [-24.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Surround Jack Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: 'Shared' 'Independent' Item0: 'Shared' Simple mixer control 'Center',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 15 [48%] [-24.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'LFE',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 15 [48%] [-24.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Capture [off] Front Right: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'CD',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Capture [off] Front Right: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Front Left: Capture [on] Front Right: Capture [on] Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost (+20dB)',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Mic Select',0 Capabilities: enum Items: 'Mic1' 'Mic2' Item0: 'Mic1' Simple mixer control 'Video',0 Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Front Left: Capture [off] Front Right: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Phone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Front Left: Capture [off] Front Right: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA',0 Capabilities: volume volume-joined Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Mono Limits: 0 - 3 Mono: 2 [67%] Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Playback Source',0 Capabilities: enum Items: 'PCM' 'Analog In' 'IEC958 In' Item0: 'PCM' Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 15 Mono: Playback 7 [47%] [-24.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Aux',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Capture [off] Front Right: Playback 15 [48%] [-12.00dB] [off] Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Mono Output Select',0 Capabilities: enum Items: 'Mix' 'Mic' Item0: 'Mix' Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 15 Front Left: Capture 7 [47%] [10.50dB] [on] Front Right: Capture 7 [47%] [10.50dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Mix',0 Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Front Left: Capture [off] Front Right: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Mix Mono',0 Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Front Left: Capture [off] Front Right: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: '2ch' '4ch' '6ch' Item0: '2ch' Simple mixer control 'Duplicate Front',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] .......................................................... 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