On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 19:08:37 +0100, andy wrote: [...]
> Yes, the mp3s did play in stereo before. In any event, I rebooted and while > the machine was shutting down, I heard a "pop" sound from the left speaker > and upon reboot all is well. > > I don't know what happened, but suspect that it was perhaps a module not > loading properly in the kernel. It could have something to do with the manipulation of the mixer levels by /etc/init.d/alsa-utils during shutdown. > I appreciate that rebooting is not the most elegant solution, nor even the > most practical, so this thread will be useful to keep just in case. What > would I be looking for in the output of > > amixer | egrep '^( .*Left|[^ ])' > > just so that I can keep this in mind for future reference if there is a > recurrence? I wanted to look at this output to check the status of all "Left" playback channels. You should see something like this: Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Front Left: Playback 46 [73%] [-22.50dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Front',0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Front Left: Playback 46 [73%] [-22.50dB] [on] [ This is only part of what I get on my system. ] If you see "[off]" or "[0%]" anywhere then it is clear that there is room for improvement. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
