Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.21-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This notebook will not produce sound 'out of the box' and needs tweaking of sound settings to perform. Some support either by default settings for alsa-mixer or by a README-Asus-A6 is essential to have an easy sound installation.
Most of the guidance is available on the internet, but is time consuming to find. The relevant text found is as follows: "My notebook is possibly the most Linux-incompatible machine that's ever been made. Here's a tip: Don't buy an Asus A6R. It's one of the worst notebooks I've ever owned. Sound didn't work straight off. The notebook has an IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller, according to Ubuntu's Device Manager. If you've got the same sound card, and want to get it working, you need to do two things. (1) Double-click the speaker icon in Ubuntu's system tray and click Edit -> Preferences in the Volume Control window that appears. In the list, look for the Master Surround entry, and put a checkbox in it. Then look for External Amplifier and put a check in it. Click the Close button then click the Switches tab in the Volume Control window. Remove the check against External Amplifier. (2) Then click the Playback tab and click the Speaker icon beneath the Master Surround slider, so that it's no longer muted. Then adjust the slider. Playback some audio and you should find everything now works. Basically, the Master Surround slider is now your volume slider. Weird, but true. To make the system tray applet use the Master Surround to control the volume, right-click the system tray speaker icon, select Preferences, and select Master Surround in the list. " I'm running Gnome, so the instructions apply pretty much the same - except begin by clicking System>Preferences>sound>Preferences with ATI IXP (Alsa Mixer) selected as the device in the menu. The only thing I can add is that the box for Exchange Front/Surround: must be unchecked for the headphone jack to work. My Sound modules etc are as follows: # lspci | grep -i audio 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) # lsmod | grep -i snd snd_atiixp 13892 2 snd_ac97_codec 91264 1 snd_atiixp snd_pcsp 8416 0 ac97_bus 1456 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss 32232 0 snd_mixer_oss 12368 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 62416 4 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcsp,snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_midi 5688 0 snd_rawmidi 18596 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 6212 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 42304 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 17460 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 6136 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 49028 14 snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcsp,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 6184 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8116 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on: ii dialog 1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii libasound2 1.0.21a-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii linux-sound-base 1.0.21+dfsg-2 base package for ALSA and OSS soun ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii module-init-tools 3.11-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 149-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii whiptail 0.52.10-4.1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends: ii alsa-base 1.0.21+dfsg-2 ALSA driver configuration files ii pciutils 1:3.1.4-4 Linux PCI Utilities alsa-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
