walt wrote: > 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
That's the HDMI output of your integrated GPU. All AMD graphics, including the APU you have, come with integrated HDMI Audio. > 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 This is the one you have to use for laptop audio. > 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? I think you have to make the second one the default audio device. Possibly by editing the alsa.conf files found in /etc/modprobe.d and /usr/share/alsa. This thread may help : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/gentoo-87/set-default-sound- card-796566/ HTH
