Arno Schuring <aelschur...@hotmail.com> writes: > Csanyi Pal (csanyi...@gmail.com on 2012-01-10 18:05 +0100): >> Hi, >> >> I have problem with sound. Can't hear anything except PC speaker's >> beep. This PC Speaker is in the PC Box and is small. :) >> > [..] >> Aplay can't find any soundcard. >> aplay -l >> aplay: device_list:242: no soundcards found... > [..] >> What I did is that that I just purged almost all gnome packages from >> my Debian SID and maybe purged some essential packages for sound. >> > > Smart money's on a missing alsa-base package.
Although this issue is solved, I give you answers because I don't understand some of it: > To be more thorough: > > - Is alsa-base still installed? aptitude search alsa-bas i A alsa-base > - Are you still a member of the audio group? groups myusername myusername : myusername lp dialout cdrom floppy audio video \ plugdev lpadmin vboxusers > - What are the permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer? ls -ln /dev/dsp crw-rw---T+ 1 0 29 14, 3 jan 12 07:05 /dev/dsp ^^^ ls -ln /dev/mixer crw-rw---T+ 1 0 29 14, 0 jan 12 07:05 /dev/mixer ^^^ I don't understand what are those 1 & 0 ? Where are the 'root audio' names that usually stands here? > What is the output of: > $ lsmod | grep snd lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_codec_realtek 272344 1 snd_hda_intel 26182 3 snd_hda_codec 72920 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 13186 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm_oss 41081 0 snd_mixer_oss 17916 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 63744 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_midi 12848 0 snd_rawmidi 23060 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 13316 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 45093 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 22917 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 13176 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 52798 15 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,\ snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,\ snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,\ snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 13065 2 snd snd_page_alloc 13003 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > $ cat /proc/asound/cards cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 22 -- Regards from Pal -- 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/87vcohnkqg.fsf@debian-asztal.excito