[SOLVED] ACER Aspire 5542

nicholls15 · 02-25-2010, 12:24 PM

Hi Folks

Hope you can help

I have an Acer Aspire 5542 , I have thrown Debian on to it . I managed to get everything working except the sound.

Debian picks up the sound card but no sound is coming from it .

Any Ideas ???

ATI High Definition Audio Device

Realtek High Definition Audio

ftinius · 02-25-2010, 07:27 PM

First what desktop did you load with Debian Gnome or KDE?
If you loaded KDE go to kmix and make sure the volume levels are turned up and not muted.

Kmix should be in the system tray displayed as a little speaker icon, click on icon then click on mixer, if not goto the kmenu and under multimedia click on kmix. See attachment.

If it is Gnome it should have a similar feature, but I am not that familiar with Gnome.

Hope this helps in some way.

nicholls15 · 02-26-2010, 03:56 AM

Thanks for your reply

I'm using GNOME.And I checked all the bars are active and not muted but still no sound .

Very Confusing

nicholls15 · 02-26-2010, 01:06 PM

Well I managed to sort it after a while .

I went to http://www.alsa-project.org and downloaded the following files

# alsa-driver-1.0.22.1
# alsa-lib-1.0.22
# alsa-utils-1.0.22

After Unzipping them I did a ./configure , Make , Sudo Make Install .

Restartes the machine viola , I had sound

I'm a happy Camper