Sound: no sound

[Frank McCormick]

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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:32:44 -0500
Willis H Cook <williscook at juno.com> wrote:

> 
>         I have continued to explore this situation with peculiar results.
>  Again, the sound started working.  I immediately captured the output of
> aximer.  It begins like this:
> 
> Simple mixer control 'Master',0
>    Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
>    Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
>    Limits: Playback 0 - 63
>    Limits: Playback 0 - 31


//much snipped//

>    Mono:
>    Front Left: Playback 25 [81%]
>    Front Right: Playback 25 [81%]. . . .

  

>         When sound doesn't work amixer doesn't even list controls for
> Master, Master Mono or Headphone and the control for PCM is different,
> showing two channels when, with sound working, it shows only one. It's as
> if amixer reads two different configuration files.  


As far as I know Amixer doesn't read config files - it queries the hardware -
it sounds like its querying two different sound devices ?

Try running "amixer info" when sound is working and again when sound is not
working.



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Cheers

Frank

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