On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:39 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 06:52 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 2:47 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > The sound stopped working on my wife's computer about a week ago. I've > > > run every test I can think of and can't seem to track the problem > > > down. /etc/init.d/alsasound starts up fine. I can run alsamixer on her > > > computer just fine (on my computer, when ALSA isn't working I can't open > > > alsamixer); she has the volume control applet running on her panel, but > > > there simply is no sound. > > > > Its probably a bit off, but do you have a cat? Some get their whiskers in a > > twist about the nice clean continuous line that forms cabling. Check that > > any > > speaker cables and the plug in back of your comp hasn't been left dangling > > in > > the wind... > > My wife has a cat that likes to make trouble like that, but I checked > the back of her PC and everything seems to be plugged in where it's > supposed to be. Still no sound. What confuses me is that it works > perfectly in Windows XP. My wife's monitor is one that has the speakers > built onto the monitor. She sometimes asks to borrow my headphones so > she can do her labs for French class without disturbing me. I can't > seem to find where she plugs the headphones in at, but I'll ask her when > she gets home. It can't hurt to try, right? >
I fixed it. I feel really stupid about it too. When I was helping her to diagnose the problem, I asked her to open the volume control and make sure everything was turned up all the way. She said it was, and when I checked in alsamixer, everything was turned up all the way. However, when I sat down at her computer and opened the volume control applet, the PCM was turned all the way down. I raised the level and now the sound works again... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
