Fresh gentoo install on new lenovo desktop. Both linux and win7 (lenovo installed) tell me that this machine has two audio devices:
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3625 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3625 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 29 18:07 /dev/mixer crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 16 Mar 29 18:07 /dev/mixer1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Mar 29 18:07 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Mar 29 18:07 controlC1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Mar 29 18:07 pcmC0D3p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Mar 29 18:07 pcmC1D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Mar 29 18:07 pcmC1D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Mar 29 18:07 pcmC1D2c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Mar 29 18:07 timer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 29 18:07 pci-0000:00:01.1 -> ../controlC0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 29 18:07 pci-0000:00:14.2 -> ../controlC1 I spent an entire frustrating day discovering that the reason I have no sound is that every app wants to use /dev/mixer when only /dev/mixer1 actually works :( Only some apps (like audacious) will let me choose which mixer to use, and those apps work perfectly. Anyone else seen this before, I hope? Got a fix? Thanks :) -- P.S. -- No, I don't use pulseaudio. Why do you ask?