On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Harry Putnam<rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > I've gone literally for yrs with no sound on my desktop machines.... I > rarely find a need for it. > > But now I'm trying to take some online courses and find trying to work > on windows machine when coding and other sorts of editor intensive > stuff is involved... I really feel much more adept on linux. > > Anyway cutting to the chase... its been so long since I even looked > into gettting sound working.. I'm sort of stunned at the realization I > have no clue at all as to how to get started. > > I hoped to avoid reading acres of documentation. Starting way at the > bottom etc etc. > > Hoping some kind sole will take the time to provide a brief outline > off the top of there head... how to get started and cut right to the > chase in an hour or two. > > My setup is profile x86/2008.0 > On this architecture and kernel <past the `-r1' is my own versioning > Linux reader 2.6.30-gentoo-r1_rdr_5 #6 [...]i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) > CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > I try to keep within a week or two being up to date most of the time. > > I've got speakers hooked up at back of the machine in the `green' > hole. > > I get nothing sound wise when attempting to play a music or video > file. > > Neither do I see any errors: mplayer some.wav from a cmdprompt shows > the file playing... but I'm hearing nothing. > > Below are a few chunks of info that hopefully will be useful to > someone diagnostically: > > My kernel has also enabled pci sound devices/: > <M> (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 > <M> (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 > > lspci -vv shows this item: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > > Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2-V > (MS-6788) Mainboard > > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > > Latency: 0 > Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 12 > Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] > Region 1: I/O ports at d800 [size=64] > Region 2: Memory at febffa00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] > Region 3: Memory at febff900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH > Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
Well... here we go then, the order I check things myself: 1) Drivers. According to your lspci output there, your kernel already has the drivers for the card -- Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH -- and so that's covered. 2) Are the needed channels muted? Once you unmute them, assuming alsa-utils is installed and the alsa service is started, the volumes and muted/unmuted state should be saved between reboots (configurable in /etc/conf.d/). 3) ... I rarely get this far. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
