No Sound with Realtek ALC892 on Debian Squeeze
Hi, all. I just installed Debian Squeeze alpha1 for AMD64 with KDE onto a desktop PC I just built. However I cannot get sound to work, and I've been at it for about six hours already...
My primary audio device is a Realtek ALC892 chip on an Intel HDA ATI SB card on an MSi 870A-G54 motherboard (very nice board, especially on sale :D). lspci identifies the device as follows: Quote:
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I first used the stock Debian Squeeze Linux kernel (2.6.32-5). Eventually I read that support for ALC892 was added in 2.6.33. So then installed the Liquorix Linux kernel 2.6.35-2 (Linux debian 2.6.35-2.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64) for the audio drivers and some additional performance boosts. I'm using ALSA 1.0.23. Information on my ALSA installation from dpkg: Quote:
I was missing devices like /dev/dsp and /dev/audio and /dev/sndstat showed audio devices "NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG", so I fixed all of that by installing two kernel modules -- snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss. Results: Quote:
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Does anyone have any ideas why I can't get sound to work? This is the desktop computer I'll be taking with me to college within the next week and a half, so I'd really like to get everything working as soon as possible... |
Maybe this will help: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1382221
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Thanks, it's reassuring to see that it's possible. I assume that person used the PulseAudio Volume Control, since I found those settings in there. I saw the volume meter move with sound output in KDE apps, but nothing I tried would produce actual output.
'alsactl init' gives an error: Quote:
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And for what it's worth, aplay will "play" a file without errors, but there is no actual sound output. Quote:
I tried using a Debian stable/Lenny live CD (with alsaconf and an older kernel, since I thought I read in some places that this is a new issue). I had the same problems; I had no audio, even after running through alsaconf. Then I thought of running a Windows installation to make sure that the hardware is really working properly (I assume it is anyway, since it identifies itself to Linux). I took the hard drive out of my netbook (Windows XP) and put it in my desktop case. Windows simply flashed an orange screen of death at me (something about an unauthorized hardware configuration I guess, I couldn't catch it fast enough) and rebooted the PC. Does anyone have any ideas that might help me to get sound to work on this computer? |
Okay, so I gave up on the onboard audio. I ordered and installed a cheap but good ASUS Xonar DS (a rebranded Creative something) PCI sound card, disabled the onboard Realtek ALC892 in BIOS, booted Debian, and let KMix remove the onboard sound device. Then I rebooted Debian, and I instantly had sound, no configuration necessary.
It's too bad the Realtek chip wouldn't work (I guess maybe it's not the best hardware anyway), but at least I managed to solve my problem (with a cheap but good separate 7.1 audio device, so it worked out okay). :) |
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