On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:38:17 -0500 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I've purposely not used sound in my linux setups for yrs... never had > much need of sound... and only really needed it for my video editing > work which is done with Adobe tools and therefore all on windows. > > Anyway, cutting to the chase... like I said its been literally yrs > since I even thought about sound on linux... now I'm kind of lost as > to how to test, configure debug, etc. > > Trying to play a wav file with mplayer, it seems to play the file just > fine except I hear nothing. > > My audio hardware is the hugely common, at least on older PCs, AC'97. > And I seem to have a herd of modules running that appear sound > related. (See the output of lspci and lsmod below). > > Maybe its just a question of turning something on or setting volume > somewhere? > ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- > > lspci |grep audio > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation > 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > > ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- > > And I seem to have a whole herd of modules that are apparently sound > related. > > lsmod |grep snd > > snd_intel8x0 22382 5 > snd_ac97_codec 84197 1 snd_intel8x0 > ac97_bus 12462 1 snd_ac97_codec > snd_pcm 53315 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec > snd_seq 39539 0 > snd_timer 22027 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq > snd_seq_device 12985 1 snd_seq > snd 38562 15 > snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq, > soundcore 12992 1 snd > snd_page_alloc 12899 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm Run a mixer (e.g., alsamixer) and check to make sure nothing's muted and that the volumes are set to reasonable levels. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111027170815.4c40a0a36e4393a7c1d3b...@gmail.com
