Re: My machine is cursed: no sound. Help! [was Re: es1371 sound problems]

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:48:33 +0100,
Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> On Pá 24-02-06 19:14:59, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:40:50AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > >  0 [I82801DBICH4   ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
> > >                       Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at 0xc0000c00, irq 5
> > >  1 [U0x4fa0x4201   ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x4fa:0x4201
> > >                       USB Device 0x4fa:0x4201 at usb-0000:00:1d.1-2, full speed
> > > root@amd:~#
> > > 
> > > (usb soundcard clicks when I launch mpg123, but that's it.)
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > 
> > I had problems with the ac97 driver and newer kernels until toggling Mute 
> > on the headphone sense channel.  Alsa has too many bells and whistles that 
> > need to be properly incanted for machines to emit sound.  Just try futzing 
> > with the channels in alsamixer.  Otoh, that's a good way to end up with a 
> > config that doesn't work, too...
> 
> Could we get some alsa-produce-sound script? On emu10k, there's 30+
> options in mixer to set, and default setting is useless :-(.

In the case of SUSE, you can call "set_default_volume -f".
But better to clear the old sound status once before this.  i.e.
- unload sound modules
- remove /etc/asound.state
- reload the modules


Takashi