[gentoo-amd64] ALSA no sound

2014-11-17 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
Had gentoo linux for years. Original system had working sound, which gradually petered out (working in some apps and not others) until no sound at all. Got a new system, a few months old, set it up according to the ALSA guilde (wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA) but no sound. Physically removed the

[gentoo-amd64] Re: ALSA no sound

2014-11-17 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
LOL started the java app, and got sound, no idea why speaker-test didn't work. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com wrote: Had gentoo linux for years. Original system had working sound, which gradually petered out (working in some apps and not others) until no

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ALSA no sound

2014-11-17 Thread Frank Peters
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:59:54 +1100 Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com wrote: alsamixer shows 2 cards, 1 HDMI, so I presume I got the right 1. What are your two sound cards? Do you have an NVidia graphics card on your system? If so, then the HDMI may refer to the on-board NVidia sound.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ALSA no sound

2014-11-17 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
linux # aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=SB HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=SB HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, ALC887-VD Analog

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ALSA no sound

2014-11-17 Thread Frank Peters
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:35:29 +1100 Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com wrote: alsamixer shows 2 cards, 1 HDMI, so I presume I got the right 1. linux # lsof /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p linux # speaker-test -t wav -c 2 speaker-test 1.0.27.2 Playback device is default The pcmC1D3p device refers to