I must've done something stupid (for a change)
the pc speakers on my laptop arnt working. they used to. I've tried clicking every thing in the mixer.

please heeeelpt!

thanks for your time
//Santiago

type "lsmod" and post the output.

Thanks for your reply.

however, it used to work. I must've clicked something in my mixer or maybe one of the services... I don't know.

I can't seem to find the actuall 'speaker' fader in the mixer. Or I don't know what I'm looking for.


//S

type in the command i listed, it will give us a starting point to remedy your situation.

it does list a whole bunch of stuff, but I don't know wich option is the speaker.

also, I seem to remember doing something like shutting down the sound in KDE at one point. Cos I didn't want the greeting/farewell melody to be blastin in the speakers. (I've been trying to back trace all my steps since installing and reconfiguring etc) is this possible?
if so, where do i turn it back on?

thanks
//S

if you type lsmod at a root console it will list the modules loaded. it will not say "speakers' we are lookin too see if your sound daemons are loaded. there will be many things listed, yes, please post it.

what distro?

mandriva 2006

and :

Module Size Used by
isofs 32312 0
sg 34044 0
scsi_mod 121064 1 sg
udf 83332 0
binfmt_misc 8872 1
cpufreq_ondemand 5052 0
cpufreq_conservative 6116 0
cpufreq_powersave 1280 0
speedstep_centrino 7028 1
freq_table 3460 1 speedstep_centrino
raw 6592 1
i915 17696 1
drm 60404 2 i915
md5 3584 1
ipv6 234016 149
hidp 27808 2
rfcomm 34332 0
l2cap 20516 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 41252 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
snd_seq_dummy 2532 0
snd_seq_oss 31136 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5696 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46960 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6828 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 48960 0
snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0 29408 1
snd_ac97_codec 83900 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 79784 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 20548 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8392 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd 46116 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 7008 1 snd
ipt_IFWLOG 2788 1
ipt_psd 43428 1
ip_set_iptree 5544 2
ipt_REJECT 4256 4
ipt_LOG 6272 7
ipt_state 1312 14
ipt_pkttype 1184 4
ipt_set 1920 2
ipt_CONNMARK 1696 0
ipt_MARK 1984 0
ipt_ROUTE 4260 0
ipt_connmark 1216 0
ipt_owner 2432 0
ipt_recent 9292 0
ipt_iprange 1312 0
ipt_physdev 1744 0
ipt_multiport 2112 0
ipt_conntrack 1792 0
iptable_mangle 2016 0
ip_set_portmap 3840 0
ip_set_macipmap 3780 0
ip_set_ipmap 3872 0
ip_set_iphash 5924 0
ip_set 18876 11 ip_set_iptree,ipt_set,ip_set_portmap,ip_set_macipmap,ip_set_ipmap,ip_set_iphash
ip_nat_irc 1824 0
ip_nat_tftp 1216 0
ip_nat_ftp 2560 0
iptable_nat 20212 3 ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_irc 70352 1 ip_nat_irc
ip_conntrack_tftp 3088 1 ip_nat_tftp
ip_conntrack_ftp 71408 1 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack 40824 9 ipt_state,ipt_conntrack,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ tftp,ip_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter 2080 1
ip_tables 20416 20 ipt_IFWLOG,ipt_psd,ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,ipt_state,ipt_pkttype,ipt_set,ipt_CONNMARK,ipt_MARK,ipt_ROUTE, ipt_connmark,ipt_owner,ipt_recent,ipt_iprange,ipt_physdev,ipt_multiport,ipt_conntrack,iptable_mangle ,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
ipw2200 93736 0
ieee80211 29956 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 4548 1 ieee80211
firmware_class 7456 1 ipw2200
8139too 21760 0
mii 4704 1 8139too
af_packet 16392 6
pcmcia 20648 2
yenta_socket 20328 1
rsrc_nonstatic 11200 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 43300 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
eth1394 16936 0
video 14052 0
thermal 10920 0
tc1100_wmi 5092 0
processor 17876 2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
fan 3172 0
container 3008 0
button 4848 0
battery 7460 0
ac 3268 0
ide_cd 37988 0
ohci1394 32340 0
ieee1394 289560 2 eth1394,ohci1394
loop 14504 0
nls_cp437 5344 1
vfat 10592 1
fat 45980 1 vfat
nls_utf8 1536 2
ntfs 212792 1
intel_agp 20636 1
agpgart 29032 3 drm,intel_agp
nvram 7400 0
ehci_hcd 29192 0
uhci_hcd 29136 0
usbcore 108348 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
joydev 8128 0
evdev 7648 1
tsdev 5984 0


thanks for your help
//S

as root type "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp"
if you hear sound ignore the rest of this post. It means its a kde prob.

type
My thinking is when you ran alsamixer you were setting up your dummy device

tell us that your soundcard has been loaded.

make sure that its not muted in alsamixer - thats screwed me up before.