Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 01 November 2007 21:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:18:35PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > ... > > > I'm not sure which packages are required to upgrade the alsa driver on > > Debian, and any help/suggestions would be welcome, not only for me, but > > perhaps

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:18:35PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I think I'd also consider upgrading the alsa driver. I've been on the > alsa-user list for ages, and most recently on the alsa-devel list. the alsa > folks are working hard on resolving problems, particularly with hda intel, > an

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:28:08AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I'm not sure if its been mentioned in this thread yet or not, but at > least some (well, okay, one -- mine!) distinguishes between onboard > sound and an external amplifier. My rig has two jacks on the front, > one for hea

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:18:35PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: ... > > I'm not sure which packages are required to upgrade the alsa driver on > Debian, > and any help/suggestions would be welcome, not only for me, but perhaps > Richard also. probably only linux-headers- and build-essential. at l

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 01 November 2007 16:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > > I am just following Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. > > > The "D

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [...] > > > > I am just following Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. > > The "Documentation" directory is part of the kernel source; you can > > also get

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 13:33:26 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > - The problem might go away automatically if you upgrade to a newer > > version of ALSA and/or the kernel. (I don't recall if you mentioned > > which branch

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > I am just following Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. > The "Documentation" directory is part of the kernel source; you can > also get it separately by installing the linux-doc-... package for your > version o

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 00:23:34 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:38:02PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:48:16 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...] > > OK, so the hardware works. > > > > > Never mind -- I'll buy a phonograph, a soft cloth and

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:38:02PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:48:16 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > 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 enter

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
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

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
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 the

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:10:24PM +0800, swhe wrote: > > > > > can u get the sound when u use a headphone? > > > > > > > No, that seems silent too. > > what's the result of " cat /proc/asound/cards " 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xd000c000 irq

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 00:28:46 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:32:18PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > That is indeed the normal output, so speaker-test seems to think > > everything is OK. What do you get from running "amixer"? > > Florian, hello. How

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread swhe
> > > can u get the sound when u use a headphone? > > > > No, that seems silent too. what's the result of " cat /proc/asound/cards " -- Yours, swhe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:13:55AM +0800, swhe wrote: > On 10/31/07, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:32:18PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > That is indeed the normal output, so speaker-test seems to think > > > everything is OK. What

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread swhe
can u get the sound when u use a headphone? On 10/31/07, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:32:18PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > That is indeed the normal output, so speaker-test seems to think > > everything is OK. What do you get from running

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:32:18PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > That is indeed the normal output, so speaker-test seems to think > everything is OK. What do you get from running "amixer"? Florian, hello. How nice to have your help once again. Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabiliti

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 23:09:47 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:13:30PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 22:00:43 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...] > > > > > > Mine is an Acer Aspire 1640Z, FWIW. > > > > What happens if you run "speaker-test", d

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:13:30PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 22:00:43 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > > Mine is an Acer Aspire 1640Z, FWIW. > > What happens if you run "speaker-test", do you get an error message or > is it just not producing any sound? It sa

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 22:00:43 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:52:59AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Lyons shared this with us all: > [...] > > >--} Lucky man! I wish it would work for my Acer laptop! Still, I suppose > > >--} after all these ye

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Lyons shared this with us all: >--} A hundred times.  It says ALSA is ready to use, and wishes me a lot of >--} fun.   As long as it's happy...   >--} In fact the link given earlier in the thread to >--}     http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux >

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:52:59AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Lyons shared this with us all: [...] > >--} Lucky man! I wish it would work for my Acer laptop! Still, I suppose > >--} after all these years I should know better than to expect sound on a > >--} laptop. I se

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Lyons shared this with us all: >--} On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:55:02PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: >--} [...] >--} > I followed instructions at the here previous indicated URL and run > 'alsaconf' --} > which indeed completed and corrected the configuration of > my s

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:55:02PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: [...] > I followed instructions at the here previous indicated URL and run 'alsaconf' > which indeed completed and corrected the configuration of my sound > card. > Now everything is fine. All tests are OK. Lucky man! I wish it

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 28 October 2007 18:56, Chris Lale wrote: > Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. > > Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing > > some setup. > > Drivers looks correctly installed as 'lsmod' shows follow

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 28 October 2007 18:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:21:52PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. > > Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing > > some setup. > > ther

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread steef
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing some setup. Drivers looks correctly installed as 'lsmod' shows following drivers : .. snd_hda_intel 17332 3 snd_hda_codec 1

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread Chris Lale
Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. > Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing some > setup. > Drivers looks correctly installed as 'lsmod' shows following drivers : > .. > snd_hda_intel 17332 3 > snd_hda_

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:21:52PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. > Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing some > setup. there are several possible things: 1. you aren't in the audio group (adduser

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread Enrico Farabollini
Hi, check your settings account in users and group Bye Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing some setup. Drivers looks correctly installed as 'lsmod' shows following drivers :

Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing some setup. Drivers looks correctly installed as 'lsmod' shows following drivers : .. snd_hda_intel 17332 3 snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel snd_