On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hi, gentoo, > > I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the > "Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide". Everything seems to be working fine, except > no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers. > > I've checked the obvious things: the speakers are plugged in, switched > on and connected to the appropriate socket on my motherboard (the light > green one). > > I have drivers for my motherboard's sound chips compiled into my kernel, > and they are correctly identified by alsamixer. With alsamixer I've > unmuted various things and turned up the volume. > > madplay appears to play an mp3 file I have. Just that no actual sound > comes out. > > One other strange thing: the titles under the "volume bars" in alsamixer > are very different from the ones in the document: Instead of "Master / > Headphone / Tone / Bass / Treble / 3D Contr / PCM", I've got " Master / > Headphon / Front / Front Mi / Surround / Center / LFE / Side / Line / > Mic / Mic Boos / S/PDIF / S/PDIF D / Beep". Why is this? In > particular, I'm missing the "PCM" volume bar which the documentation > says is so important to unmute. > > What am I missing here? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). >
Did you get this worked out yet? VERY strange that you don't see pcm as a mixer control... It's a bit hard to say much with so little info but I'll offer a couple of things: 1) IMO Alsa has never run so well when drivers are compiled into the kernel. I do a lot of audio in Linux and have always had the best results using modules. I would strongly suggest you give it a try... 2) Under /proc/asound/card0 (or whatever card you are using if you have more than 1) do you see any pcm directories? 3) Post back a little more info? cat /proc/asound/cards aplay -l aplay -L lsmod Good luck, Mark
