Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
SOLVED - I've just switched on the speakers and found that I’ve got full sound again,Christmas has been saved and my son will be pleased! I don’t know whether it was because of all the tinkering today or because of the forced reboot this morning due to a power cut, but its now working properly agai

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I forgot to say, how do I get the sound card recognised then please? Sharon. On 21 December 2011 13:09, Sharon Kimble wrote: > This now gives ;- > ~~~ >  sudo alsactl init > [sudo] password for boztu: > Unknown hardware: "CMI8738-MC6" "CMedia PCI" "" "0x13f6" "0x0

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
This now gives ;- ~~~ sudo alsactl init [sudo] password for boztu: Unknown hardware: "CMI8738-MC6" "CMedia PCI" "" "0x13f6" "0x0111" Hardware is initialized using a guess method Sharon On 21 December 2011 13:03, lina wrote: > as root run > al

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread lina
work for me, # alsactl init Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Cirrus Logic CS4206" "HDA:10134206,106b1d00,00100301" "0x8086" "0x7270" Hardware is initialized using a generic method Few days ago my laptop just become dumb. we might have different hardware. sorry. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:03 PM, lina

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread lina
as root run alsactl init On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > This gives command not found. > > Sharon. > > On 21 December 2011 12:41, lina wrote: >> # alsactl init >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> I've already reinstalled vlc and it made no

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
This gives command not found. Sharon. On 21 December 2011 12:41, lina wrote: > # alsactl init > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I've already reinstalled vlc and it made no difference, I did sudo >> apt-get remove vlc, sudo apt-get autoremove, sudo apt-get purge, sud

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread lina
# alsactl init On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I've already reinstalled vlc and it made no difference, I did sudo > apt-get remove vlc, sudo apt-get autoremove, sudo apt-get purge, sudo > apt-get install vlc and just let it pull things in that it required. > > I think tha

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've already reinstalled vlc and it made no difference, I did sudo apt-get remove vlc, sudo apt-get autoremove, sudo apt-get purge, sudo apt-get install vlc and just let it pull things in that it required. I think that i've tried virtually every sound menu item available on vlc but all to no avail

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-20 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:30:02 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: >am now using alsa. The problem occurred when we > were trying to debug a problem with playing mp4 films on VLC, my > preferred programme for playing and watching films. It may be something as simple as selecting the correct 'device' in VLC