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SOLVED , with many many thanks No sound since i installed Mepis
Hi all . I installed Mepis yesterday , got rid of windows and now im wishing i hadnt .
I have a sound prob and cannot seem to rectify it .
Have downloaded Alsa modules and clicked to install but still no sound .
Someone asked to see the following info on another site so i will paste it on here to see if anyone can help .
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 Sout
h]
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 5337 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/
C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
(rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
(rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTra nsport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscella neous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 3230 (r ev 11)
04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139 C+ (rev 10)
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controlle r (rev 10)
I have a foxconn K8M890M2MB m/b .
AMD Opteron processor
500gb h/d
1gb ram
Can anyone please help me in solving my no sound prob please .
If you can , using idiot proof words would help with me as i am a complete novice with Mepis and am finding it hard to find my way around all the new jargon etc .
Thanks all
Mink
Last edited by minkynink; 04-30-2008 at 01:45 PM.
Reason: solved
What sound driver do you have loaded? In a konsole run the command 'lsmod | grep snd' cut and paste the results. I can see you have VIA tech HD controller. To get sound working, the driver has to load. Once loaded, you may need to bring up a mixer, and unmute the audio, and turn up the volume.
As a test, in a konsole use 'aplay soundfile.wav' This gets around the possibility of no codecs installed. Just use a .wav file, any one.
Yes, you are using the snd_hda_intel driver, and soundcore is loaded. I'll try to verify that is the correct driver, I suspect it is.
The aplay command, you will have to look around your system, there are bound to be system sounds. Log as root, and run the command 'updatedb' ( without quotes ). It may take a few minutes. Then you can log out of root. Run the command 'locate *.wav' You should get a load of .wav files. Change to the directory that has some wave files. The try 'aplay whateverwavefileyoulike.wav'.
If you don't get sound, bring up the mixer, make sure you are not muted, and the volume is up.
Let me know...
I checked the ALSA site, this is the correct driver.
Last edited by camorri; 04-29-2008 at 03:57 PM.
Reason: Add info.
Hi
is this meant to be put in run command ?
If so it says command not found .
Please excuse my ignorance , i am totally inexperienced with this and i feel like im drowning in my stupidity .Im getting super super cheesed off with this .
Thanks
Mink
Hi
Thanks for the tips .Have made sure all sound is turned up and still nothing .
Im getting serious sound withdrawals , Any other possible solutions ?
Thanks again
I had the same problem, and I struggle for a whole day, finally the sound came alive by
editing this file: snd-hda-intel
Is located in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory, log in as a root and open it up with any
editor, You'll probably see two lines like this:
options snd-hda-intel position_fix=2
options snd-hda-intel model=auto
Just comment out the 1st line by adding (#), before options, leave the 2nd line alone. Reboot the computer.
If your kmix is not mute and your speakers are on, you should have sound. By the way this fix a problem I had when playing a video in youtube website, my screen was locking up when playing a video, I don't know if you are experiencing the same problem, but if you can try to play a video before you edit this line.
I had the same problem, and I struggle for a whole day, finally the sound came alive by
editing this file: snd-hda-intel
Is located in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory, log in as a root and open it up with any
editor, You'll probably see two lines like this:
options snd-hda-intel position_fix=2
options snd-hda-intel model=auto
Just comment out the 1st line by adding (#), before options, leave the 2nd line alone. Reboot the computer.
Good Luck!!!
estteban
Hi
I tried this one and it didnt work for me . Just retrying the above now .
Thanks both .
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