where is alsaconf?

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 01:17, oxy wrote:
> > Apart from you having said in your original post, that you'd installed
> > alsa-driver 1.0.17, and 1.0.16 is showing as the driver version, those
> > outputs above seem fine.
>
> Ops, maybe i installed 1.0.16, which is already the ubuntu version :-)
>
> > What do you see when you open alsamixer as user on the CLI? are any
> > controls muted? The "M" key will toggle the state, and some sliders may
> > as default be down, to save your ears when the sound initially starts. At
> > the top of alsamixer you should see a reference to a chipset/codec. Would
> > you post back which one it is.
>
> From alsamixer:
> Card: HDA ATI SB
>                                                    │
> Chip: Analog Devices AD1986A
>
> I cannot set the Hook-off field in alsamixer. It is always off.

No sure what the Hook-off field is, as I don't have one of those on my 
alsamixer for the hda-intel card, but I have a different codec (ALC662)
>
> > hda-intel cards can be problematic, and you may have to set an options
> > line in /etc/modprobe.conf, or /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (depending on
> > your distro), which will load snd-hda-intel using a specific model
> > option. The model options available will depend on your codec, and you
> > may have to put something like this, as an example, see below.
> > options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba

OK. For the AD1986A, there are a few model options you could try, as below.

AD1986A
   6stack 6-jack, separate surrounds (default)
   3stack 3-stack, shared surrounds
   laptop 2-channel only (FSC V2060, Samsung M50)
   laptop-eapd 2-channel with EAPD (Samsung R65, ASUS A6J)
   laptop-automute 2-channel with EAPD and HP-automute (Lenovo N100)
   ultra  2-channel with EAPD (Samsung Ultra tablet PC)

As you can see, the first one is the default, which will be the one that's 
being used at the moment. Your notebook isn't mentioned here, but it's worth 
trying the other options. So sudo gedit, and navigate 
to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, and at the bottom of the alsa-base file add one 
which you want to try. For example.
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

Save the changes to the file, reboot, open alsamixer, and unmute anything 
muted, and push sliders up. You will probably see different controls for each 
of the model options you try. Left, and right arrow keysallow you to select a 
control. Up, and down to move the slider, and M key to toggle mute/unmute. 
See man page for alsamixer.

My alsamixer for the hda-intel card has the following controls, so you may see 
something similar on yours, see below.

Master:   slider, and mute/unmute switch
Headphone:   mute/unmute switch
PCM:   slider
Front:     slider and mute/unmute switch
Front Mic:    slider and mute/unmute switch
Line:     slider and mute/unmute switch
Mic:    slider and mute/unmute switch
IEC958:   switch  (this is for digital out using SPDIF)

Master, PCM, and Front, are normally the important ones.

If you're using Gnome, also check the Gnome volume control. I use KDE, so am a 
bit unfamiliar with Gnome.
> >
> > Which make/model of computer is this?
>
> Samsung Cutama R45.

I did a quick Google for it, and saw the specs, etc. Is it a very new model?
> Thanx a lot again ...

All the best.

Nigel.