Dear all cols,

I tried to setup my sound card with alsa and my new 2.6.7 kernel,
here is my configuration (see at the end of this message)

My microphone is with gnomemeeting, no problem.
But, I cannot get any sound on my speakers:

echo foo > /dev/dsp nothing (also with the root)
xmms : music play ok, I see the spectrum, but no sound
gnomemeeting: no sound

My speaker is plug and work with my 2.4.x kernel

Can you help me to solve this problem ?

Thank you in advance,
Guillaume

My card is an on board
Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller

MY lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM
Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller
(rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC
Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra
ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER
(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
[Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon
9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
0000:02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394
Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378
(FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon
Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)


My lsmod:
Module Size Used by
snd_intel8x0 28424 0
snd_ac97_codec 63108 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 5888 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_usb_audio 66016 0
snd_rawmidi 19264 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_device 6536 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm_oss 47656 0
snd_mixer_oss 17152 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 77732 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 8968 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_timer 19716 1 snd_pcm
snd 41444 10
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_us b_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd _mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
audio 43776 0
soundcore 7008 2 snd,audio
pwc 48752 0

My ls -l /dev/dsp*:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root audio 9 Jul 15 10:00 /dev/dsp ->
/dev/dsp0
crwxrwx--- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 15 10:00 /dev/dsp0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jul 15 10:00 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Jul 15 10:00 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Jul 15 10:00 /dev/dsp3

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:31:45 -0700, Guillaume Riviere wrote:

> Dear all cols,
>
> I tried to setup my sound card with alsa and my new 2.6.7 kernel,
> here is my configuration (see at the end of this message)
>
> My microphone is with gnomemeeting, no problem.
> But, I cannot get any sound on my speakers:
>
> echo foo > /dev/dsp nothing (also with the root)
> xmms : music play ok, I see the spectrum, but no sound
> gnomemeeting: no sound
>
> My speaker is plug and work with my 2.4.x kernel
>
> Can you help me to solve this problem ?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Guillaume

<snip setup info>

As far as I can tell, everything is set up properly, so make sure you run
alsamixer or amixer to set the volumes appropriately. alsamixer is easier
to use if you're experimenting since it's interactive, and once you get
the volumes to levels that you like, you can use amixer in startup scripts:

amixer set Master 85% unmute
amixer set CD 90% unmute
...

Be sure that everything is unmuted too. If alsamixer has a line like

Item: Master [Off]

then press the 'M' key to turn it on.

Good luck,

Brandan L.
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