Hi everyone,

I am experiencing a weird problem with sound, i.e. there is none. I am quite sure I had sound until recently though I switched it off. Now there is no sound and even the volume-icon has disappeared from the tray.

I would be really happy if anyone could help me out.

Here is my lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 9602
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 4)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 0

Here is a screenshot from gamix. There are no rulers for the output it appears.



Thank you very much in advance
pbachert

Did you try running alsamixer as root?

My speaker icon disappears from icewm taskbar once in a while. I just open antixcc and click on the wicd button and it comes back with 2 wicd icons. I just quit on one of em. Just a bug for me.

@plvera, rokytnji,

thanks a lot for the suggestions. Still no sound, though.

pbachert

Have you had any success with using

antix control center>Hardware>Configure Sound System

I am nit familiar with

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)

But

You might go to


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/"
linktext was:"http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/"
====================================


and run their check and post the link on what was read out.

A
readout from terminal in next post won't hurt either.

@rokytnji,

thanks again for helping. I just reinstalled an older image of my partition and miraculously sound is working now. I guess I must have messed something up without realizing. No idea what I might have done.

Cheers
pbachert

Sometimes a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade will break things like sound support as developers decide older sound cards should not be supported anymore so they remove some sound stuff during the apt-get dist-upgrade.

That is why I pay special attention during that process on my older IBM A22M Laptop and stick with some older applications instead of doing a full dist-upgrade on it. Some sound cards that used to be supported are being dropped by Debian as time goes on.

rokytnji wrote:Sometimes a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade will break things like sound support

I have had this a number of times on an old P2, The solution I have come up with is to
menu --> run
type: gksu thunar /etc/modprobe.d
press: ok
type: YOUR ROOT PASSWORD
press: ok
locate: alsa-base.conf and alsa-base-blacklist.conf
rename: said files above, add a .bk to the end of them EG: alsa-base.conf.bk
reboot

####### Write down ########
At the grub splash screen
remove: all but root=
press: enter

wait for it to boot and test your sound, I believe this sets to OS to redetect your hardware and then make new configuration files.