At Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:15:46 -0700 (PDT), S. Aguinaga wrote: > > S. Aguinaga wrote: > > > > Hello Stan, > > > > This is awesome I did find the problem it's listed in the /var/log/messages under ALSA. > > > > 1. When I bring up the "Pulse Volume Control" gui, the first tab "Playback" comes up empty, and grayed-out is "No Streams Available" > > 2. aplay does not produce sound, period! > > 3. Amrok's welcome sample does not produce sound out of the std tower speaker or the headphone jack. > > > > I didn't notice anything strange on the output of the alsa-info.sh file, but when I checked the var/log/messages, this is what I found: > > > > sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep ALSA > > Aug 11 07:52:10 macprolinx kernel: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1810: chipset global capabilities = 0x4401 > > Aug 11 07:52:10 macprolinx kernel: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:749: codec_mask = 0x1 > > Aug 11 07:52:10 macprolinx kernel: ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:1073: Cannot find slave Surround Playback Volume, skipped (snip) These messages are harmless. It's just information from the driver, enabled only when you build it with CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_VERBOSE=y. > I think your problem is a misidentification of your sound chip. The > model being used for your 889A appears to be incompatible, thus all > the errors above. It appears that the macpro ALC885 is being selected > before it gets to the choice for the ALC889A. Perhaps a developer can > look into this. Well, ALC882, ALC885 and ALC889A are almost compatible. In the driver, they are all handled in the same routine. There are a few models for intel macs with ALC88x. Try to specify either model=macpro, model=mbp3 or model=imac24 as the module option of snd-hda-intel driver. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
