No sound on 12.10 installation on Acer Revo - how to get some?

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Aere,

do please exchange what you encounter with the guys on the multimedia
section [1]. But also please note that a fully filled in bug is really
required[2] for things to be taken up.

Regards,

Phill.
1. http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=334
2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing#Reporting_Bugs

On 29 December 2012 19:52, Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com> wrote:

> **
> Chris:
>
> I have consistently (with Lubuntu) had problems where my machine has more
> than one sound card, of it choosing the wrong one (the one the amplifier
> isn't connected to).
>
> I have had cases where I indicate the one I really want using Pulseaudio
> Volume control, and another time I boot, I discover *it* has selected the
> *other* sound card as the main (fall-back) sound card.  I probably need
> to edit the alsa-base config file to finally fix that annoying problem.
>
> I have been pleasantly surprised lately, that a lot of things work equally
> well with JACK (qjackctl) running.  It used to be that with JACK running,
> only the things that depended on JACK worked.  Those fixes seem to have
> been made in 12.04 as well as 12.10.
>
> I still occasionally encounter situations with JACK which totally hang my
> system, leaving me only the choice of turning the machine off, but those
> are much more rare nowadays.
>
> --
>
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Chris Green <cl at isbd.net <Chris%20Green%20%3ccl at isbd.net%3e>>
> *To*: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Subject*: No sound on 12.10 installation on Acer Revo - how to get some?
> *Date*: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:19:30 +0000
>
> I am having trouble getting any sound output on an Acer Revo R3600.
>
> I first tried after upgrading an Ubuntu Server installation to 12.10,
> that produced nothing.
>
> I have now done a completely fresh install of Lubuntu core and that is
> just as silent.
>
> Everything *appears* to work, e.g. if I run alsamixer on the command
> line I get all the expected bits and can turn the gain up on 'master',
> 'phones' and 'speaker' but still I get nothing out.
>
> If I run the default rhythmbox it thinks everything is OK and 'plays'
> but no sound comes from the speakers (I'm using the headphone output
> driving an amplifier).  Jiggling the connections produces a crackle from
> the speakers so they are connected and live.
>
> Can anyone suggest what might be wrong?
>
> --
> Chris Green
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