i am having a little bit of trouble to get the sound to come out. it reads my cd no prob and even plays the cd but no sound, i configured alsamixer and fixed the volumes but still nothing. tried it in kde and gnome, nothing. its so very frustrating!!


thx dARK

Plz,

1. do "alsaconf" and post if it detects the card
2. post the results of "lsmod"

i 've the same problem.. though i didnt configured alsamixer yet..
how do u do that? where is it ?
i dont know if this would help u.. but.. after i configured alsaconf. it told me to configured my sound using alsamixer or gramix. did u tried this last one?

here is my lsmod


Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 37736 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12504 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
i810_rng 2528 0 (unused)
uhci 24444 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [uhci]
snd-intel8x0 18924 1
snd-ac97-codec 49500 0 [snd-intel8x0]
gameport 1420 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 56072 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 13604 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 6328 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 12740 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3888 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 30852 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
8139too 14376 1
mii 2272 0 [8139too]
crc32 2880 0 [8139too]
ide-scsi 9328 0
agpgart 43940 4

whats not right?

Is the problem only with CD's? Can you hear other system sounds?

if YES - check that the cable CD>soundcard is present (Not sure linux cd player uses digital extraction). Make sure CD channel on the mixer is unmuted.

If No, do:
any_file > /dev/dsp

Clarify: did alsaconf detect your card?
tell if you hear noises.

then:
aplay some_mp3_file