soundcard appearing as device, but not working

2015-11-12 Thread tand read 

Dear Debian team,

I have a motherboard integrated sound card identified as

  lspci
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device a170 (rev 31)

Debian 8.2 (linux 3.16.0-4-amd64) seems to recognize it and
loads several sound modules:

  lsmod | grep snd | cut -f 1 -d' '
snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_controller
snd_hda_codec
snd_hwdep
snd_pcm
snd_timer
snd
soundcore

(but no alsa modules: lsmod | grep -i alsa shows nil and
 manually modprobe-ing them changes nothing)

and the sound system seems ok:

  cat /proc/asound/pcm
00-00: ALC1150 Analog : ALC1150 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ALC1150 Digital : ALC1150 Digital : playback 1
00-02: ALC1150 Alt Analog : ALC1150 Alt Analog : capture 1
00-03: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1

yet, nothing plays (analog output) and it is not a hardware
problem; the system is a dualboot one and in win10 it works
perfectly (sounding like “windows-have-the-correct-drivers”
and reporting itself as "Realtec High Definition Audio")

any idea if I can do anything about it? Any realistic
suggestion is welcomed and greatly appreciated

thanks for your time

tand read

Re: soundcard appearing as device, but not working

2015-11-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz 
Have you tried to use "alsamixer"? It gives some control over the volume and
muting of the different output/input channels/devices.
Regards,
jvp.

Re: soundcard appearing as device, but not working

2015-11-12 Thread Nicolas George 
Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXIV, tand read a écrit :
> (but no alsa modules: lsmod | grep -i alsa shows nil and

The ALSA modules are called snd-*, you already observed they are loaded.

> any idea if I can do anything about it? Any realistic
> suggestion is welcomed and greatly appreciated

Uninstall anything related to PULSE that you can (libraries can stay, the
server must absolutely go), and then use aplay -D hw:X,Y to make your tests,
it gives the error message without muddling things with automagic
workarounds.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George


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Re: soundcard appearing as device, but not working

2015-11-12 Thread Ric Moore 

On 11/12/2015 06:05 AM, Nicolas George wrote:

Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXIV, tand read a écrit :

(but no alsa modules: lsmod | grep -i alsa shows nil and


The ALSA modules are called snd-*, you already observed they are loaded.


any idea if I can do anything about it? Any realistic
suggestion is welcomed and greatly appreciated


Uninstall anything related to PULSE that you can (libraries can stay, the
server must absolutely go), and then use aplay -D hw:X,Y to make your tests,
it gives the error message without muddling things with automagic
workarounds.


The OP might just need to use alsamixer to unmute something. If alsa is 
not configured properly, pulse doesn't stand a chance. Ric



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