[olug] Debian Sound Problem
Shawn L Djernes
shawn at djernes.org
Mon Aug 6 18:52:44 UTC 2007
Have you tried to play audio from the console? You can do this with
alsaplayer <sound file>
Also you may want to run ALSAmixer to check the mute and levels of the
master and PCM devices.
alsamixer
When in the program use left and right arrows to move from channel to
channel, Use up and down to adjust the volume. Look at the symbols at the
bottom of the mixer sliders. OO means unmuted MM means muted, you can
toggle this with the "M" key
Why I recommend this method to check audio is that both KDE and GNOME us a
sound server daemon as a middle man between them and the Unix kernel
interfaces. So if the daemon is miss behaving then you get no sound.
Hope that helped
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-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Russell Monaghan
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 4:17 PM
To: OLUG
Subject: [olug] Debian Sound Problem
Hey, guys, I'm new to the mailing list, and I just found out
there was LUG in Omaha a few days ago. Anyway, I'm running Debian Etch,
and I'm having a problem with my sound. Usually, when I try to play
music, or a program plays a sound, I get a message box that says
something like 'Cannot open sound server; will continue using null
output device.'
I'm new enough to linux that I have NO experience with sound, so if
someone could help out, that'd be great.
If I run /*lspci*/, I get this:
*russell at yoda:/mnt/winxp$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller
(rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:02.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM)
Ethernet Controller (rev 82)
russell at yoda:/mnt/winxp$
*And if I run /*lsmod*/, I get this:
*russell at yoda:/mnt/winxp$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 2208 0
nls_cp437 5920 0
vfat 11872 0
fat 46684 1 vfat
i915 17600 3
drm 61332 4 i915
nfs 202828 0
nfsd 197936 17
exportfs 5600 1 nfsd
lockd 54344 3 nfs,nfsd
nfs_acl 3584 2 nfs,nfsd
sunrpc 138812 13 nfs,nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl
ppdev 8676 0
lp 11012 0
button 6672 0
ac 5188 0
battery 9636 0
ipv6 226016 25
xt_tcpudp 3136 96
xt_state 2272 71
ipt_REJECT 5248 4
xt_limit 2752 6
ipt_LOG 6112 6
ip_conntrack_ftp 7760 0
ip_conntrack_irc 6800 0
ip_conntrack 49088 3 xt_state,ip_conntrack_ftp,ip_conntrack_irc
nfnetlink 6680 1 ip_conntrack
iptable_filter 3104 1
ip_tables 13028 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 13316 6
xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ipt_REJECT,xt_limit,ipt_LOG,ip_tables
fuse 39828 3
dm_snapshot 15552 0
dm_mirror 19152 0
dm_mod 50232 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
loop 15048 0
sd_mod 19040 0
tsdev 7520 0
snd_intel8x0 30332 2
snd_ac97_codec 83104 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2400 1 snd_ac97_codec
usblp 12768 0
snd_pcm_oss 38368 1
snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss
floppy 53156 0
parport_pc 32132 1
parport 33256 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
snd_pcm 68676 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 20996 1 snd_pcm
serio_raw 6660 0
psmouse 35016 0
i2c_i801 7468 0
i2c_core 19680 1 i2c_i801
pcspkr 3072 0
snd 47012 8
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9248 2 snd
rtc 12372 0
snd_page_alloc 9640 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
intel_agp 21148 1
agpgart 29896 3 drm,intel_agp
shpchp 33024 0
pci_hotplug 28704 1 shpchp
joydev 9088 0
evdev 9088 1
ext3 119240 2
jbd 52456 1 ext3
mbcache 8356 1 ext3
ide_cd 36064 0
cdrom 32544 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 14848 6
usb_storage 71840 0
scsi_mod 124168 2 sd_mod,usb_storage
usbhid 37248 0
piix 9444 0 [permanent]
generic 5476 0 [permanent]
ide_core 110504 5 ide_cd,ide_disk,usb_storage,piix,generic
e100 32232 0
mii 5344 1 e100
ehci_hcd 28136 0
uhci_hcd 21164 0
usbcore 112644 6 usblp,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 13608 0
processor 28840 1 thermal
fan 4804 0
russell at yoda:/mnt/winxp$
*Like I said, I have little knowledge of sound, so help will be
greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Russell Monaghan
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