Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

On 12/20/2013 01:36 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've had issues over the years getting alsa to play. It's always a > configuration problem for me. Amen. I say, amen. This is my experience too. And sometimes the configuration involves a type-o. A good example is one that reads: default.pcm.card 1 i

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

Dan McGhee wrote: >> Yes, I have, Bruce. I physically have two sound devices. One is HDMI and >> the other, whose chip I can't identify, runs with the Azalia Controller >> so employs snd_hda_intel. `aplay -L` gives me nine devices. In addition >> to "null" and the HDMI, it tells me >> >>> sysdefau

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

On 12/20/2013 11:58 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/20/2013 11:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Dan McGhee wrote: >>> On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > The only addition and possibly relevant info is that my HP laptop, HP > ENVY m6 Sleekboo

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

On 12/20/2013 11:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: >> On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: 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

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> 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 wa

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> 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 nu

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: > 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

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

On 12/18/2013 05:53 PM, Robin wrote: You've 2 sound devices? alsamixer hit F6 to check Did that. Not using HDMI. Analogue is default. See results of -L> below. On 18 December 2013 22:14, Dan McGhee > wrote: I really wish that I could get rid of my "rustiness"

Re: [blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

You've 2 sound devices? alsamixer hit F6 to check On 18 December 2013 22:14, Dan McGhee wrote: > 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. >

[blfs-support] ALSA and No Sound

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 lo

Re: No sound after upgrade

-Original Message- From: Bruce Dubbs To: BLFS Support List Sent: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 11:20 pm Subject: Re: No sound after upgrade Seemed no big deal at the time, chrooted into the system from elsewhere and installed the packages. Kept glibc in the same release no

Re: No sound after upgrade

inutils and ran > all the lfs tests. Also upgraded to kernel 2.6.29(drivers needed) - > everything was fine. I was able to run wireless and other newbies, > but I've no sound. Straight away I upgraded to the latest alsa > software as in blfs, but no luck. Upgrading glibc at a

Re: No sound after upgrade

-Original Message- From: William Immendorf To: BLFS Support List Sent: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 10:24 pm Subject: Re: No sound after upgrade On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, wrote: > Any ideas on this one anyone, I've googled for hours but there is nothing > defin

Re: No sound after upgrade

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, wrote: > Any ideas on this one anyone, I've googled for hours but there is nothing > definitive. Try upgrading ALSA-Lib to 1.0.21a and see what happens. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. -

No sound after upgrade

2.6.29(drivers needed) - everything was fine. I was able to run wireless and other newbies, but I've no sound. Straight away I upgraded to the latest alsa software as in blfs, but no luck. speaker-test 1.0.21 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Usi

Re: No sound

I have a very good sound, sounding great! No error messages at all! Just compiled a new kernel of linux-2.6.31.1. It is now my first boot option in grub menu. Now, which one to blame? Kernel or ALSA? Thank you very much, Ken Moffat, who turned my attention to compiling a new kernel, Bruce Dubb

Re: No sound

--- Em qui, 24/9/09, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > De: Bruce Dubbs > Assunto: Re: No sound Thanks for the reply. > > What do you have for the sound devices: > > $ ls -l /dev|grep audio > crw-rw 1 > root   audio   14,  12 > Sep  8 14:31 adsp > crw-rw 1 > r

Re: No sound

--- Em qui, 24/9/09, Ken Moffat escreveu: > De: Ken Moffat > Assunto: Re: No sound > Para: "BLFS Support List" Thanks for the reply. > > Let's start with the "off" question - I've just checked > amixer - > > '[on]' means w

Re: No sound

Fernando Oliveira wrote: > I have no sound. > > ALSA installed as instructed (alsa-lib-1.0.21, alsa-firmware-1.0.20, > alsa-plugins-1.0.2, alsa-oss-1.0.17, alsa-utils-1.0.21). However, could not > follow the book with speex-1.0.5, but needed to install speex-1.2rc1, > instead,

Re: No sound

2009/9/24 Fernando Oliveira : > Hi, > > LFS 6.5, BLFS svn, VMWare Player, fluxbox > > I have no sound. > > ALSA installed as instructed (alsa-lib-1.0.21, alsa-firmware-1.0.20, > alsa-plugins-1.0.2, alsa-oss-1.0.17, alsa-utils-1.0.21). However, could not > follow the

No sound

y now, without a clue on how to solve the sound problem, have decided to start posting here, and only in the future will ask, if I may, help for the other minor issues. I have no sound. ALSA installed as instructed (alsa-lib-1.0.21, alsa-firmware-1.0.20, alsa-plugins-1.0.2, alsa-oss-1.0.17,

Re: no sound on 64-bit build with via8237 and alsa 1.0.18

On Thursday 14 May 2009 21:26:34 Chris Burel wrote: > Kde's sound works through Qt's Phonon. So you have to have phonon > support compiled into Qt. You can build Phonon separately too. You can either checkout Phonon-4.3.1 through svn, or download a tar from a distro; Debian's convenient. Trent

Re: no sound on 64-bit build with via8237 and alsa 1.0.18

I also had trouble getting sound to work with kde applications. Kde's sound works through Qt's Phonon. So you have to have phonon support compiled into Qt. This depends on GStreamer, and will build a gstreamer backend for phonon. Kde will also build a xine backend for phonon, if it finds xine. T

Re: no sound on 64-bit build with via8237 and alsa 1.0.18

On Saturday 09 May 2009 12:39:09 pm Simon Geard wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:43 +0100, lux-integ wrote: > > The alsamixer levels are all 'up'. In kde kmix and other audio > > applications still refuse to budge. > > Not just up, but un-muted? Alsamixer is a somewhat clunky interface, and

Re: no sound on 64-bit build with via8237 and alsa 1.0.18

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:43 +0100, lux-integ wrote: > The alsamixer levels are all 'up'. In kde kmix and other audio > applications still refuse to budge. Not just up, but un-muted? Alsamixer is a somewhat clunky interface, and it's pretty easy to have the volumes maxed out without noticing

Re: no sound on 64-bit build with via8237 and alsa 1.0.18

On Saturday 09 May 2009 01:20:07 am Bruce Dubbs wrote: > lux-integ wrote: > > a) I still get no sound from the loudspeakers ( I getthe sound of a > > small 'pop' ) on entering kde > > b) kmix (in kde421) does not work. > > c) I dould not get the cd-la

Re: no sound on 64-bit build with via8237 and alsa 1.0.18

;> Could this be the source of the problem? > I recompiled the kernel keeping drivers for all PCI-devices as modules > > and running alsaconf now reports the presence of via8237 and configures it > as 'a sound card'. I can also run > #alsamixer card

Re: no sound on 64-bit build with via8237 and alsa 1.0.18

rnel keeping drivers for all PCI-devices as modules and running alsaconf now reports the presence of via8237 and configures it as 'a sound card'. I can also run #alsamixer card1 and adjust volumes. and on shutdown /sbin/alsactl does not report ''no sound

no sound on 64-bit build with via8237 and alsa 1.0.18

Greetings, My computer makes no sound. The machine is amd64-based and has a VIA 8237/KM800 asic. I have compiled it for 64-bit cblfs Linux and kernel 2.6.28.10. I enabled alsa directly in the kernel and the via driver also . I installed alsa 1.018(library, plugin

Re: no sound : (

Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/28/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> so all the right things for hardware seem to be there, alsa mixer is set >> properly, added supplemental group "audio", the speakers are plugged in. >> What do I need to log the process? maybe that would help. > > > If that's

Re: no sound : (

On 2/28/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so all the right things for hardware seem to be there, alsa mixer is set > properly, added supplemental group "audio", the speakers are plugged in. > What do I need to log the process? maybe that would help. Are you actually in the audio group? $ gr

no sound : (

I don't know where to start in tracing this down but I have the AC97 driver built into the kernel, in /proc/asound/card0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Feb 28 12:00 codec97#0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 12:00 id -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 12:00 oss_mixer dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Feb 28 12:00 pc

Re: speaker test produces no sound

r, and have run upon the following situation. > > > > aplay -l reports the correct sound card. > > > > I have used both amixer and alsamixer to unmute all my channels, and > > have gone through and even unmuted only selective channels. > > > > The system never compla

Re: speaker test produces no sound

s, and have gone through and even unmuted only selective channels. The system never complains about anything, but when I run speaker-test, it produces no sound. The output that appears on the console in all these instances looks fine, (no blatant errors) but still sound refuses to come out of the s

Re: speaker test produces no sound

On Saturday 02 December 2006 01:59, jeeva suresh wrote: > I have gone through all the steps to try and get alsa working on my > computer, and have run upon the following situation. > > aplay -l reports the correct sound card. I had a very similar situation, the solution was to tune output, input a

Re: speaker test produces no sound

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 22:00 +1100, jeeva suresh wrote: > After doing even more research, I believe the problem is the error >"File descriptor in bad state" when I run the command. > cat /usr/local/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > pcmC0D2p That trick works with OSS, but not ALSA - you can't

Re: No sound from speakers

On 9/12/06, Richard Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the advice. I'm following the BLFS 6.1 book (the current stable version) where there is no mention of the 15-alsa.rules script. You may have reasons for following the stable book, but I would suggest following the SVN book if

Re: No sound from speakers

Alessandro Alocci wrote: > The command should be launched inside the > /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules script as > described in the Alsa-utilities section > of the BLFS book. > Just control if you have installed the script properly. Thanks for the advice. I'm following the BLFS 6.1 book (the cu

Re: No sound from speakers

Richard Melville wrote: > I still have one small problem however. The little alsa.dev script is > not being read at boot time, which means I have to manually run alsactl > restore every time I reboot. Does anybody have any ideas. I just > cannot see why this is happening. The command should be

Re: No sound from speakers

rear mounted jacks, so I should have replaced the jumpers in order to re-route the sound to the rear of the case. I forgot - so no sound. I still have one small problem however. The little alsa.dev script is not being read at boot time, which means I have to manually run alsactl restore every time

Re: No sound from speakers

On Friday 08 September 2006 17:09, Mark Priestley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:57:02PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > > Please can somebody help. I've reached the stage of desperation. > > I've compiled the via drivers and alsa into the kernel and > > installed the alsa library, plug-ins

Re: No sound from speakers

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:57:02PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: Please can somebody help. I've reached the stage of desperation. I've compiled the via drivers and alsa into the kernel and installed the alsa library, plug-ins, utilities and alsa oss. I've run the speaker-test and played a w

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

PS: i consider alsaconf to be bugged because of this. but as im not willing to fix it myself you can write me off as a psyco. :) Understood and noted you...psyco LOL =) j/k well in the end it was more user error then configuration but thats a good point and i like modular kernels over the

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

On 5/1/06, Dan Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: this is a long over due reply but the problem was solved in the end it was user error=/ i first had a syntax error in the /etc/group file which resulted in my user not being properly added to the audio group this once corrected removed a great d

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Dan Winkler wrote: From: Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BLFS Support List my new config grep SND .config CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=y Change this line to # CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M is not set this driver is for a combin

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

On 4/23/06, Dan Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as root no sound output what so ever with xmms or mpg123 but the file can > be seen playing Try using alsamixer and speaker-test to test the sound. Using xmms or mpg123 just adds another layer to the test and makes it mo

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

ot set # CONFIG_SND_PDAUDIOCF is not set still no sound after the rebuild _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinf

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

0D4p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 56 2006-04-23 07:00 pcmC1D0c crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 48 2006-04-23 07:00 pcmC1D0p crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 1 2006-04-23 07:00 seq crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 33 2006-04-23 07:00 timer as root no sound output what so ever with xmms or mpg123 but the fil

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

Dan Winkler wrote: CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y CONFIG_SND_PCM=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y # CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set # CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y CONFIG_SND_SEQ_RTCTIMER_DEFAULT=y # CONFIG_SND

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

Dan Winkler wrote: From: Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BLFS Support List To: BLFS Support List Subject: Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:16:09 -0400 What exactly did you do to make it run as a user? I sincerely hope you didn't follow the

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

From: Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BLFS Support List To: BLFS Support List Subject: Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:16:09 -0400 Dan Winkler wrote: as I recently discovered, alsamixer can be set to run as a non-root by modifying some permissi

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:04:57PM -0700, Dan Winkler wrote: > > /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1 which were there lastnight seem to have vanished as > well as /dev/audio > Been there, seen that. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/udev.html (the bottom of section 7.4.4) -- das e

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

Dan Winkler wrote: as I recently discovered, alsamixer can be set to run as a non-root by modifying some permissions as follows: chmod +x /dev/snd This ensures that users can enter/view the directory containing the sound config files. chmod 666 /dev/snd/* This allows users to actually mo

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

From: Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BLFS Support List To: BLFS Support List Subject: Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:54:50 -0400 snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name AL

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

From: "Van Van Cleave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BLFS Support List To: "BLFS Support List" Subject: Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:41:11 -0500 On 4/23/06, Dan Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i disabled those s

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

Dan Winkler wrote: i disabled those settings in alsamixer as root and still nothing No need to disable anything alsamixer. The problem isn't there anyway. still as root no sound but the file is playing as user a tried running xmms from xterm these errors spewed forth: ** WA

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

Van Van Cleave wrote: as I recently discovered, alsamixer can be set to run as a non-root by modifying some permissions as follows: chmod +x /dev/snd This ensures that users can enter/view the directory containing the sound config files. chmod 666 /dev/snd/* This allows users to actually

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

On 4/23/06, Dan Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i disabled those settings in alsamixer as root and still nothingstill as root no sound but the file is playingas I recently discovered, alsamixer can be set to run as a non-root by modifying some permissions as follows: chmod +x /dev/snd

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

hose settings in alsamixer as root and still nothing still as root no sound but the file is playing as user a tried running xmms from xterm these errors spewed forth: ** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) can

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

On 4/23/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alsamixer does not need to be run as root. This is bad advice.Apologies, I jumped the gun in offering a solution.  It is, in fact, supposed to be run as a non-root user.  I was unaware of this.  Thanks for bringing this up, for my edification.  N

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

Van Van Cleave wrote: I do not believe that alsamixer is intended to be run as a normal user, and this error occurs on my machine without any adverse effects, so this is, I believe, is a non-issue. It is, in fact, supposed to be run as a non-root user. The problem is that either you don't hav

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

On 4/23/06, Dan Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: as a user i cant run alsamixer as it gives me this error:alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such deviceI do not believe that alsamixer is intended to be run as a normal user, and this error occurs on my machine without any a

Re: alsa+sound (no sound at all)

Dan Winkler wrote these words on 04/23/06 13:21 CST: > im having issues with alsa i think that is I don't have the patience to look through an entire dmesg output. Perhaps out of courtesy to those trying to help you, you could only post the relevant material. Are you certain that the permissions

alsa+sound (no sound at all)

im having issues with alsa i think that is here are the symptoms as root i can open alsamixer un mute volumes raise them etc if i run xmms and have alsa selected i can see it playing but i can't hear anything as a user i cant run alsamixer as it gives me this error: alsamixer: function snd

Re: No sound, possibly an issue with ALSA [SOLVED]

My situation was that my integrated Intel sound card running under the intel8x0 driver was not getting sound to my speakers, even though all software indications (speaker-test, aplay, alsamixer and ecasound) ran error-free, and _apparently_ to the correct location.  The problem did, in fact, lie in

Re: No sound, possibly an issue with ALSA

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:Try booting with "noapic pci=noacpi" appended to the kernel line in grub. Broken APIC or ACPI implementation is a common issue on VIA and nForce motherboards (but I would be very surprised to see this on Intelchipset).Rebelde wrote: amixer set 'IEC958 Capture Monitor' mu

Re: No sound, possibly an issue with ALSA

Van Van Cleave escreveu: After ripping my hair out over this for quite some time, I have decided to relent and ask for help. Having installed the correct ALSA portions of the standard 2.6.11.12 kernel (all integrated, no modules) and ALSA-lib, ALSA-plugins ALSA-oss and ALSA-utilities, I attempt

Re: No sound, possibly an issue with ALSA

Van Van Cleave wrote: After ripping my hair out over this for quite some time, I have decided to relent and ask for help. Having installed the correct ALSA portions of the standard 2.6.11.12 kernel (all integrated, no modules) and ALSA-lib, ALSA-plugins ALSA-oss and ALSA-utilities, I attempted t

No sound, possibly an issue with ALSA

After ripping my hair out over this for quite some time, I have decided to relent and ask for help. Having installed the correct ALSA portions of the standard 2.6.11.12 kernel (all integrated, no modules) and ALSA-lib, ALSA-plugins ALSA-oss and ALSA-utilities, I attempted the included speaker-test

No sound lessons

Hi, Mike Hernande wrote on Wed, 24 Aug 2005: Welcome to the community :) You're a newbie, get used to it. I mean that in a really good way, so don't misunderstand. Being in your position means you took a first step on a long road... or maybe not a road.. maybe it's a swim... in an ocean? This i

No sound lessons

Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 I feel no anguish. I applaud your efforts so far and hope you continue to pursue the {,B}LFS way of Linux. I am a forthright person who speaks his mind. I can come off as abrasive. I am constantly working on that. Though I can certainly say I will ne

Re: No sound lessons

On 8/24/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was nice to see so many fellow-users of the List felt concerned about > this subject. Shows how active this List is. > > This started with me. I owe an explanation. > Welcome to the community :) You're a newbie, get used to it. I mean

Re: No sound lessons

randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/24/05 20:29 CST: > The Book is very well done. That is why a novice like me has reached this > far, having installed X and Kde and now asking questions about how to get > the peripherals going. No mean achievemnet for the LFS/BLFS team. You are a > promin

No sound lessons

Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21 Sorry if you took my efforts to help as being insulting. You are responding to my last message where I indicated that what the OP was asking for us to put in the book is already covered in documentation provided by the package. Typically, we don

Re: No sound lessons

Jeremy Byron wrote these words on 08/22/05 21:09 CST: > Imagine taking the time to write a constructive suggestion, and being > flamed for it. Last I checked, it was considered good form to close off > a long support thread with a summary of the solution; that Randhir > actually did this is im

Re: No sound lessons

Randy McMurchy wrote: With all due respect, you are the only person I can remember who has posted on this list who had trouble getting the mixer to unmute the channels and in configuring XMMS. This is basic operational stuff. Sure there is an occasional question about the setup of a particular

Re: No sound lessons

Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote on Sun, 21 Aug 2005: With all due respect, you are the only person I can remember who has posted on this list who had trouble getting the mixer to unmute the channels and in configuring XMMS. This is basic operational stuff. Sure there is an occasional question about

Re: No sound lessons

Declan Moriarty wrote: Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words If you want something doing, do it yourself. Write a patch that fixes the problem and send it to the package maintainers. I think that's a poor attitude to hear on a support list. To people not familiar with C you have

Re: No sound lessons

Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Declan Moriarty wrote: > >Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > >>If you want something doing, do it yourself. Write a patch that > >>fixes the problem and send it to the package maintainers. > > > >I think that's a poor attitude to hear

Re: No sound lessons

Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > randhir phagura wrote: > >Why do novices like me have to "rediscover the wheel"? > > > >In the first place, why the linux gurus have to be so awkward as to > >'mute all channels' by default? Rationally, it should be the other > >way. All channels mu

Re: No sound lessons

Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/21/05 20:24 CST: > > > Only a few lines in these respective sections will make novices at > > ease plus this will reduce so much traffic on the List. > > With all due respect, you are the only person I can re

Re: No sound lessons

Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/22/05 01:20 CST: > That doesn't mean that it isn't an issue. I remember when I first did LFS > getting sound to work was a big deal and it was the same issues that Randhir > is reporting. I didn't post to the list about it, I struggled in silence and > used

Re: No sound lessons

Randy McMurchy wrote: This is basic operational stuff. Sure there is an occasional question about the setup of a particular sound card, but traffic on this list on how to unmute the channels using the Alsa-Mixer and how to configure XMMS is nil. That doesn't mean that it isn't an issue. I reme

Re: No sound lessons

randhir phagura wrote: Why do novices like me have to "rediscover the wheel"? In the first place, why the linux gurus have to be so awkward as to 'mute all channels' by default? Rationally, it should be the other way. All channels must be opened by default. Is there a way to convey this to th

Re: No sound lessons

randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/21/05 20:24 CST: > Only a few lines in these respective sections will make novices at ease plus > this will reduce so much traffic on the List. With all due respect, you are the only person I can remember who has posted on this list who had trouble getting

No sound lessons

Hi, I wish to thank the Community on the List for all the help in sorting out sound problem on my laptop. Particularly, I thank Jeremy Byron for his painstaking involvement. The sound is now working and xmms gives good music - all that after some struggle though. It is just a thought for t

Re: No sound.

randhir phagura wrote: Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote: But you said the other day that you *did* get output from the speaker-test program. So you *do* have sound. You never answered my question as to what happens if you try to use the 'aplay' program to play a .wav file. I had done that and had su

Re: No sound.

Hi, Randy McMurchy wrote: But you said the other day that you *did* get output from the speaker-test program. So you *do* have sound. You never answered my question as to what happens if you try to use the 'aplay' program to play a .wav file. I had done that and had submitted the result on th

Re: No sound

lsa/Front_Left.wav >Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit >Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono >(NO SOUND IS HEARD IN BOTH CASES) > ..though it'd be interesting to see if it still shows Mono after getting the Master channel set to (OO) fro

Re: No sound

randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/19/05 21:05 CST: > Sorry Jeremy!! There is no good news from my side. I have done what you > wrote. Still no music or sound. But you said the other day that you *did* get output from the speaker-test program. So you *do* have sound. You never answered my q

Re: No sound

randhir phagura wrote: Dummy mixer has been done away with but even after recompiling the kernel, the problem stays. > Thought of something else too.. /etc/asound.state may not have been updated when you removed the dummy sequencer from the kernel and could be causing problems. You could t

Re: No sound

randhir phagura wrote: 'lspci' shows the driver as:ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 'alsamixer' shows the card as: Card: ESS ES1938 (Solo-1) Chip: ESS Solo-1 'alsa plugin' configure shows: default 'default PCM device'. Maybe try entering 'hw:0,0' (without the quotes) into xmms's 'Audio device' f

Re: No sound

Hi, Jeremy Byron wrote: Note the 'mono' in both cases.. compare below. Yeah!! You are right Jeremy. There is a driver issue here: 'lspci' shows the driver as:ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 'alsamixer' shows the card as: Card: ESS ES1938 (Solo-1) Chip: ESS Solo-1 'alsa plugin' configure shows:

Re: No sound

eft.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono (NO SOUND IS HEARD IN BOTH CASES) Note the 'mono' in both cases.. compare below. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# speaker-test 0 - Front Left Time per period = 2.666857 0 -

Re: No sound

Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono (NO SOUND IS HEARD IN BOTH CASES) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# speaker-test speaker-test 0.0.8 Playback device is plughw:0,0 Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) Buffer si

Re: No sound

randhir phagura wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed xmms-1.2.10 on my Pentium-3 machine; compaq presario > laptop, with all its dependencies except 'libmikmod'. > There is a boot script named alsa in /etc/rc.d/init.d, plase make sure it runs at boot time and no error message . then run 'alsamixer'

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randhir phagura wrote: Why am I not getting the sound in linux, whereas on the same system, dualbooting in WinXP I am getting excellent sound? Did you run alsamixer and unmute the master/pcm/etc.. devices? I believe they are all muted by default. Jeremy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail

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randhir phagura wrote these words on 08/14/05 19:00 CST: > I have installed xmms-1.2.10 on my Pentium-3 machine; compaq presario > laptop, with all its dependencies except 'libmikmod'. I always ensure that the ALSA 'aplay' command will play a .wav file and that the speaker-test command works as

No sound

Hi, I have installed xmms-1.2.10 on my Pentium-3 machine; compaq presario laptop, with all its dependencies except 'libmikmod'. The 'lspci' command produces the following output: 00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 02) In the kernel, I have incl