On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 07:19:31AM -0400, Bryan Pimmler wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> wrote: > > Do you have a "disable microphone" or "disable recording" setting > > in the BIOS SETUP? If so, make sure that the > > microphone/recording/whatever is enabled. > > The audio device is enabled in the BIOS. Note that "cat /dev/urandom > > /dev/audio" initially works and that system bell always works (if the > device was disabled I suppose they wouldn't).
I was talking about the recording end; by default we use both play and record if the device supports both. But, with certain BIOSes the recording end is disabled in a way the azalia driver keeps detecting recording capability, in turn it attempts to use it and fails. Does "cat /dev/audio0 >/tmp/foo" works (produces non-zero length file)? Do you have a "disable the microphone" feature in the BIOS? maybe in some "security" section?
