At Wed, 26 May 2010 14:04:27 +0200 (CEST), Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have here a Samsung 320MXn2 monitor/mainboard (typical x86_64 > environment) where I cannot get sound output to the internal speakers > working. > > To start, there seem to be two sound cards: > > lspci/lspci -n: > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) > 01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller > 00:14.2 0403: 1002:4383 > 01:05.1 0403: 1002:960f > > /proc/asound/cards: > 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB > HDA ATI SB at 0xf0500000 irq 16 > 1 [HDMI]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI > HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf0110000 irq 19 > > The soundcard responsible for the internal speaker is the 01:05.1/"HDMI" > one. Hmm? HDMI output as the "internal" speaker is abnormal. > Under Windows XP, I see the following mixer elements for it: > > * Master Volume > * Wave > * SW Synth > * CD Player > > Subsequently, there is sound (once I bump the volumes on these). There are definitely for the onboard sound, not for HDMI. > However, in Linux up to including 2.6.34, I only see a single mixer > element: > > * IEC958/S/PDIF That's correct for HDMI. HDMI has no volume control - it's a digital output. > mplayer etc. all successfully write to the device, but since there are > not any further mixer controls, I can't unmute the essential channels. > > alsa-utils is version 1.0.21, from openSUSE 11.2 x86_64. Judging from your description, the problem is likely that the onboard sound device isn't set up properly but only HDMI one. Please give alsa-info.sh output running on your system (run with --no-upload option) for further analysis. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
