Re: [trinity-users] No sound on Debian_8 with TDE_R14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-02-05 02:58, Nicolas Dobigeon wrote: In my box I have a Gigabyte GA-Z87N-WIFI parent board (motherboard is sexist) which has two built in sound cards, as revealed by command "cat /proc/asound/cards": 0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf0634000 irq 47 1 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0xf0630000 irq 43 Command "lspci|grep -i audio" elaborates: 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell HD Audio Controller (rev 06) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Lynx Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) I have installed in my Wheezy box packages arts-trinity, alsa-base, alsa-utils, alsaplayer-alsa, alsaplayer-common, and alsaplayer-gtk. After considerable research and experimentation worthy of a PhD candidate I found that I needed the same configuration Nicholas used but put in a different place, perhaps because I was using alsa on top of or in replacement of arts-trinity, I am not sure which. It can be either in ~/.asoundrc or -- if system wide application is desired -- in directory /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d. According to the README in that directory any file written there ending in .conf will be used by alsa. So I created in that directory file asoundrc.conf with the same configuration Nicholas used. That file was necessary before I could get any sound. This configuration is apparently the minimum necessary to get the PCH sound card to work. I however assume that to use the HDMI sound card, which eventually I will want to do, something more in that file (or possibly in another .conf file in that directory) will be necessary. Compare for example the output of alsa command "aplay -L" -- not here quoted. I am also confused by the output of command "cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat": Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA emulation code) Kernel: Linux TH 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7- ckt2-1~bpo70+1 (2014-12-08) x86_64 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf0634000 irq 47 HDA Intel PCH at 0xf0630000 irq 43 Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Timers: 31: system timer Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG If sound is working, why the four lines containing "NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG" -- unless this information (or misinformation?) is referring to another sound system that is either not installed or I am not using. Also important if using alsa is to run alsamixer and open any required boosters. Not being sure which ones I needed, for good measure I opened them all. The three websites listed below -- especially the first two -- I found of most help in activating sound in my box: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=113843 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=116950 Regards, Ken Heard