Re: Sound on new Debian install is hosed

["Alves, Prashant" <palves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you check alsamixer to ensure that the outputs are not muted ? Also if you have pulseaudio installed, you would have to check pulse audio mixer to ensure the sound is not muted there (or remove pulseaudio to debug or reduce complexity).

My computer is connected via HDMI and I had to create a asound.conf to use the audio jack instead of the hdmi audio. Do you have a similar setup ? 

On 2014-11-10 15:41, Alan McConnell wrote:

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:03:56AM -0600, Alves, Prashant wrote:

It looks like you have a similar card as mine: 0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf7d34000 irq 62 1 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7d30000 irq 63

          I don't understand the difference in IRQs.  But they
	  seem similar

I had to go to a backported kernel to fix the sound for me. Here is the kernel that worked for me linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.2-686-pae. I believe there is a updated version of the backported kernel but I have not tried it.

	  I have just installed a new kernel,
	    linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-686-pae
	  and rebooted.  Fortunately<g> everything seems to be
	  working as before; e.g. X, E-mail, iceweasel . . .
	  
	  My sound is, at the moment, totally silent.  However, there
	  is perhaps reason to hope.  For now I run  amixer, and I
	  get: 
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
         I don't know what this means.  I'd like to run a command
	 that will turn the sound on.  I thought amixer used to
	 do that.  alsamixer gives me a pretty picture . . .

It may be that I am a step away from sound.  Can Prashant, or
Clemens, or someone else, help with that step, or give another
suggestion.

TIA, and thanks to Prashant and Clemens for their suggestions.

Alan

 

 

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