No audio, fresh 10.04 LTS install

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 26 June 2012 16:54:25 Gene Heskett did opine:

> On Tuesday 26 June 2012 15:56:38 Ric Moore did opine:
> > On 06/26/2012 03:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > This card cannot drive analog when spdif is on, but I can't find a
> > > tool to turn it on/off.  It is not showing up in alsamixer.
> > 
> > Gene, apt-get install pavucontrol
> > then run it. Click on the configuration tab and select your output
> > type which would be analog 2.1 ..if you have 2 stereo and a bass
> > kicker out. Or, just analog stereo. If you have a USB headset as
> > well, make sure it's plugged in during boot. Configure that too. It's
> > slick. Ric
> 
> pavucontrol doesn't show a 2.1, nothing less than 4.1 but does have a
> config setting for analog stereo, which is what it is set for now.  FWIW
> I have tried them all.  What color is the headphone jack?  I can borrow
> the phones from a hip pocket cd music player and try those.
> 
> Very quiet here though.  The pavumeter sliding display is very well
> greased & padded, giving absolute silence for half scale readings.  :)
> 
> Thanks Ric.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

Update:  I'd had the box out on the front porch last week, within reach of 
my air compressor hose, and gave it a heck of a D&C.  Even changed the 
sickly fan on the video card for a ball bearing model, and took the fan off 
the cpu so I could clean out that heat sink.  When I brought it back in (it 
sits under an adjacent desk and due to the video cable is rather limited in 
motion to make the back panel easily visible, and the problem turned out to 
be that I had the amp plugged into the very faded light blue jack instead 
of the equally faded light green jack.  Now I need to find a tool bar 
mounted volume control.  Kmix used to park itself in that box next to the 
clock in the lower right corner.  Now I have, on the right end of the upper 
bar, 3 icons that could be kmix but none of them will admit to it.  The 
rocker switch for up/down on the keyboard works, so I suppose I can learn 
to live with that.  I guess the left & right of that triplet of speaker 
icons is connected to the left & right gain levels they get smaller if I 
turn it down with the keyboard rocker.  Wierdsville since I'm more of a kde 
type than gnome type.  Well, I'll be, the mute button on the keyboard has 
never worked, but it does now!

Thanks for Ric's help, he got me down on my prayer bones to triple check 
how it was plugged in.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. :)

Cheers, Gene
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