On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:48:16 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:59:14AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > I don't see anything obvious, but the names and the functions of the > > ALSA controls are always a bit counterintuitive to me. (Also, for added > > fun, they are different for every card.) > > In this case there are not too many of them, only 'PCM', 'Front', > 'Line', 'Mic', 'IEC958', 'Capture', 'Capture', 'Input So', 'Input So.' > > > You could keep speaker-test running in one terminal while using > > "alsamixer" in another terminal to play with the controls until you hear > > sound. > > That was fun. I think I tried every permutation. PCM has only volume; > Front, Line, and Mic have volume and mute; IEC958 has only mute; the two > Captures have volume and <space> toggles a display of > L R > CAPTUR > beneath, whatever that may mean (stereo on and off?); the two Input So. > have only the option to be Line or Mic. > > Anyway, it remains steadfastly silent in every conceivable state while > speaker-test continues to say > Time per period = 2,986811 > 0 - Front Left > and so on.
OK, changing mixer settings does not help; there must be a more fundamental problem with the driver or the hardware. > It is not hardware, I have booted Doze a couple of times, and that gives > nasty little jingles. OK, so the hardware works. > Never mind -- I'll buy a phonograph, a soft cloth and scour the > second-hand markets for vinyl... To keep yourself entertained until you get the phonograph, you could post the output of these commands: cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | head grep '.*' /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/* -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
