On Saturday 21 June 2003 01:39 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > Josh Metzler wrote: > > I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound > > working on my new box. > > > > The mother board is the Shuttle AV49N, which has onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 > > sound. > > > > I have been testing with cat reflect.au > /dev/dsp. (reflect.au is a > > sound that comes with kbounce.) This returns with no messages, but also > > with no sound coming out the speakers. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Josh > > I have a different Shuttle MB model that has the VT8233 / AC97 chipset > in it. Sound is working OK with ALSA here. I believe I had it working > at one time with the kernel's built-in OSS drivers too, but I can only > help with the ALSA setup now. > > Tell me what you have done so far, and which kernel version you are > using. The pre-compiled ALSA files only come compiled against a couple > of the available kernels now. If you want to use ALSA, you first must > get one of these kernels installed or compile your own version of ALSA > against your kernel from the source. I would advise going the > pre-compiled route. > > Cheers, > -Don Spoon-
Ok, before writing the above, I had installed the stock debian kernel-image-2.4.20-3-686, along with alsa-modules-2.4.20-3-686, alsa-base, alsa-headers, and alsa-utils. I had not run alsamixer to unmute the sound. I have now done so, but still no luck. alsamixer settings: Master: 52 Master Mono: 52 3D Control - Center: 53 3D Control - Depth: 53 3D Control - Switch: 0 (won't go up) PCM: 52 Surround: 52 Surround Down Mix: 0 (won't go up) sound related modules as listed by lspci: snd-seq-oss 29408 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 2984 0 [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 36496 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 39972 0 snd-mixer-oss 13592 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-via82xx 13248 0 snd-pcm 60836 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx] snd-timer 14212 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 39752 0 [snd-via82xx] snd-page-alloc 5020 0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 3296 0 [snd-via82xx] snd-rawmidi 13312 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4192 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd 30244 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3940 6 [snd] As my speakers only have one jack and there are two places for speaker jacks on the back of the MB, I'm not certain which one I should use. With the volume up on the speakers, I get static touching either one with the jack, but I also get no sound with it plugged into either one. I picked the darker green one, which is closer in color to the speaker jack. As I don't know much about how sound works in gnu/linux, it is possible I'm not testing it correctly. Additional info is that I am running KDE. There's no sound from it either, but I'm not sure how that might affect my ability to play sound from the command line. I figure I should get sound working from the command line before working on KDE. Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
