Problem with Realtek ALC889 sound card on Wheezy (7.1)
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Problem with Realtek ALC889 sound card on Wheezy (7.1)
I'm running debian wheezy (7.1.0), and I have an onboard realtek ALC889 sound card (The mother board is Gigabyte HA65M-D2H-B3)
The computer produces a really loud static noise, and I can't see the speakers on the Gnome sound menu. I think the problem is with ALSA, but I'm not sure. Help?
go back into that alsamixer, press the right hand arrow to move to each in turn and
@ headphone..press m to mute
@ lfe......ditto
@ cd....(for the moment) ditto
@ spdifs...press m to mute
@ capture ...press space bar to de-activate
test sound
if static clears
redo only one at time, reverse my request...meaning pressing m to unmute or space bar to activate
---hopefuly we find the culprit....I am betting on lfe
2) I don't have hdmi myself....where is sound coming out of?
3) press the F6 button and report if another sound device shows or not, only if shows...a screenshot pls
Did everything you said, didn't help... I even tried to mute everything later, I still have the static noise, no other sounds. No other devices show up in F6
(Edit: The speakers are connected by the front/headphone port, I unmuted it)
In Debian wheezy, ffmpeg has been replaced by the libav fork, which is considered to feature a more conservative release process and thus fit better to Debian's needs. It provides all libraries and prepares an upgrade path for existing application packages.
Debian wheezy comes with full-featured libav (formerly ffmpeg) libraries and frontends, including e.g. mplayer, mencoder, vlc and transcode. Additional codec support is provided e.g. through lame for MP3 audio encoding, xvidcore for MPEG-4 ASP video encoding, x264 for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding, vo-aacenc for AAC audio encoding and opencore-amr and vo-amrwbenc for Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrowband and Wideband encoding and decoding, respectively. For most use cases, installation of packages from third-party repositories should not be necessary anymore. The times of crippled multimedia support in Debian are finally over!
FabianGreffrath: I know the paragraph about added codecs is very detailed and technical, but all these codecs are explicitely mentioned on purpose. They are kind of buzz words and Debian was long time infamous for not supporting them, so this should get explicit press coverage. I am not a native speaker so the actual wording is, of course, subject to change.
I won't edit above any more but in case its a lib file here are my debian sid stuff
Code:
dpkg -l | grep libav
ii libav-tools 6:0.8.8-1 i386 Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder
ii libavahi-client3:i386 0.6.31-2 i386 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common-data:i386 0.6.31-2 i386 Avahi common data files
ii libavahi-common3:i386 0.6.31-2 i386 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1:i386 0.6.31-2 i386 Avahi GLib integration library
ii libavc1394-0:i386 0.5.4-2 i386 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devices
ii libavcodec53:i386 6:0.8.8-1 i386 Libav codec library
ii libavdevice53:i386 6:0.8.8-1 i386 Libav device handling library
ii libavfilter2:i386 6:0.8.8-1 i386 Libav video filtering library
ii libavformat53:i386 6:0.8.8-1 i386 Libav file format library
ii libavutil51:i386 6:0.8.8-1 i386 Libav utility library
gordon@box:~$ dpkg -l | grep ffmpeg
ii ffmpeg 6:0.8.8-1 i386 Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder (transitional package)
ii libxine2-ffmpeg 1.2.3-1 i386 MPEG-related plugins for libxine2
gordon@box:~$ dpkg -l | grep vlc
ii libvlc5 2.0.8-1 i386 multimedia player and streamer library
ii libvlccore5 2.0.8-1 i386 base library for VLC and its modules
ii vlc 2.0.8-1 i386 multimedia player and streamer
ii vlc-data 2.0.8-1 all Common data for VLC
ii vlc-nox
dpkg -l | grep gstream
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa:i386 0.10.36-1.1 i386 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 0.10.15.debian-1 i386 Fluendo mp3 decoder GStreamer plugin
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386 0.10.36-1.1 i386 GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386 0.10.36-1.1 i386 GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 0.10.36-1.2 i386 Core GStreamer libraries and elements
your problem may be pulseaudio
I have same sound chip in a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
using KDE on wheezy 7.1
On X start I would get crackling noise but nothing else. I dont know what the deal was with pulseaudio but I didnt really seem to need it for anything I want to do removed it got audio chipset detected properly by ALSA and could open kmixer and see audio jacks plugged in and got sound.
your problem may be pulseaudio
I have same sound chip in a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
using KDE on wheezy 7.1
On X start I would get crackling noise but nothing else. I dont know what the deal was with pulseaudio but I didnt really seem to need it for anything I want to do removed it got audio chipset detected properly by ALSA and could open kmixer and see audio jacks plugged in and got sound.
just my experience and 2 cents
I don't have pulseaudio installed (I think I removed it at some point when I tried to fix my sound). I do have some of it's libraries, but if I remove it it'll remove a lot of my programs so at least for now I'll keep it
I managed to fix the problem! Just turned the master and fromt volume very high on alsamixer. Static is probably still there, but since the other volumes are high I can turn down the speaker volume and barely hear it. Thanks!
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