Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:56:57PM +0100, Nick White wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:25:10AM -0400, Tom Ashley wrote: > > I spent the last 2 days trying to resolve this same issue on a new > > motherboard. The alternative method from http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA > > worked for me. > > Thanks f

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-03 Thread Nick White
Hi Keith, On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:50:18PM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: > Download the latest alsa-driver package from alsa-project.org. I did this, then installed linux-headers, and did ./configure && make && sudo make install After rebooting, whatdya know, it works! Horrah! Thanks a lot eve

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 02/04/12 15:44, Nick White wrote: Anybody have any other suggestions? When I installed Squeeze 6.0.3/4 onto my newish HP G62 laptop, I had no sound. I was given this advice by someone, (I'm afraid I can't remember who), from Linuxquestions - Debian forum:- Download the latest alsa-driver

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Nick White wrote: > I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things > generally went very nicely. > One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I did an installation of a Wheezy-system about a month ago and ran into the same problem: No sound. I did not take notes as to how

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Ok.. I know these may sound really naive... but with the integrated > audio thingies sometimes audio is really troublesome to set up even > if everything is working correctly, so: > > - Are you 100% sure you have plugged your headph

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread David Baron
Those Realtek/intel on-board soundards have a problem with 3.2 kernels. Some things work, some things do not. Two new "controls" were added: speaker and headphone (so I was informed in a similar thread a few weeks ago when the problem surfaced on my machine). The speaker control does not show u

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 02/04/12 11:49, Nick White wrote: Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from debian-backports (linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64) in order to g

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:16:28PM +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: > I've got the same issue on sid. At the moment I'm working around it by > killing > pulseaudio after booting. When it then autimatically restarts, sound is > working for me. Hi Jens-Michael, That doesn't sound like the sam

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:29:56PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > well, as showed from aplay -l your model is : ALC887-VD > `cd /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver` and `gunzip HD-Audio-Models.txt.gz` > > open HD-Audio-Models.txt with your favourite text editor/viewer, rows > [128..153] they seems t

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Jens-Michael Hoffmann
Am Montag, 2. April 2012, 11:49:05 schrieb Nick White: > Hi debian folks, > > I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things > generally went very nicely. > > One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently > using the kernel from debian-backports > (linux-image-3.

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/4/2 Nick White > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:16:12PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Have a look at /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ > > there are lots of info about hd models (install alsa-base if you don't) > > > > look for your souncard model infod in the relevant files and the specify

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:16:12PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Have a look at /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ > there are lots of info about hd models (install alsa-base if you don't) > > look for your souncard model infod in the relevant files and the specify > your model in /etc/modprobe.

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:25:10AM -0400, Tom Ashley wrote: > I spent the last 2 days trying to resolve this same issue on a new > motherboard. The alternative method from http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA > worked for me. Thanks for the tip. However, I'd really like to get this working using a stock k

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:05:31PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Ok, this all looks good. Please make sure that you turn off any program > that may produce sounds[1] and try as root *and* as user: > > speaker-test -c2 > > You should hear hissing (pink) noise alternating from the left and ri

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Ashley
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:57:57 +0100 Nick White wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a > > fairly new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new > > board? > > Yes, likely. It's a new PC

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:06:40PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > What about 'amixer'? amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/4/2 Nick White > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly > > new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? > > Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well be. > > > Please also

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 apr 12, 10:49:05, Nick White wrote: > > 'alsamixer' fails with: > cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument What about 'amixer'? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic si

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 apr 12, 11:57:57, Nick White wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly > > new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? > > Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly > new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well be. > Please also add output of: 'aplay -l' outpu

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 apr 12, 10:49:05, Nick White wrote: > > 'alsactl init' returns the following: > Unknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC887-VD" > "HDA:10ec0887,1458a002,00100302" "0x1458" "0xa002" > Hardware is initialized using a guess method This is not very encouraging (given that you are already

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 apr 12, 13:14:44, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > Try installing Pulseaudio. It has fixed same issue for me. At this point I'd rather not add another variable. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:14:44PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 02.04.2012 12:49, Nick White wrote: > > One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. > > Try installing Pulseaudio. It has fixed same issue for me. Didn't help, unfortunately. Unsuprisingly, given that even alsamixer and

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 02.04.2012 12:49, Nick White wrote: > Hi debian folks, > > I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things > generally went very nicely. > > One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently > using the kernel f

No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from debian-backports (linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64) in order to get my ethernet working, but the same th