On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Ok.. I know these may sound really naive... but with the integrated > audio thingies sometimes audio is really troublesome to set up even > if everything is working correctly, so: > > - Are you 100% sure you have plugged your headphones/speakers in the > right output. This may seem funny but here e.g. I have front and > rear headphone jack and these are selectable from the alsamixer. > I've seen situations in which only one worked so you should try the > combinations.
Yeah, those are good thoughts. I haven't actually heard sound from the PC yet (it's new, and didn't come with an OS), so plan to load up a few live CDs to check whether things work better there, and to more closely rule out hardward issues. I have tried plugging my speakers into everywhere, though, so think it's unlikely to be the issue here (and checked that audio was enabled in my bios). > - On the same line try playing with levels and switches in > (alsa)mixer (or some other gui version) .. I have seen that > sometimes when I upgrade, for some unpredictable reason the PCM > volume is turned down to 0 (PCM is basically all the audio you'll > get from applications). As alsamixer and related applications all don't start due to an error at the moment I can't do this, and it implies that it's more than just a little configuration thing sadly. > You would be surprised to know how many times I wasted time > debugging audio problems at the driver level and the issue was > actually in the (alsa) mixer, cables, plugs etc. I really hope I don't find out that it's something stupid like that in this case! Doesn't seem to be, I think. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402153611.GC1911@starfish
