[mythtv-users] Audio not working... What should I check?

[Leif Pihl]

For those of you who archive the past messages, this is a response to messages dating from 11/08/13.
I'm back from a weekend out of town, thus the delay in response. 

I just ran "alsamixer".  Below is my summary of the response. 

On the screen right now is a series of 16 bar graphs. 
At the top center, it's labeled AlsaMixer v1.0.26 (maybe 28 - it's a fuzzy photo that I took; I'm in a different room.) 
Upper left corner says the following: 
   Card: HDA Intel PCH 
   Chip: Intel PantherPoint HDMI 
   View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture  F5: All 
   Item: Master [dB gain: -20.00] 
At the upper right are four lines re F1, F2, F6 & Exc. keys

The bar graphs show this data, going left to right: 
   Master: 41 (bar is roughly 41-ish percent up from the bottom)
   Headphone: 100<>100 (bar is at 100%) 
   PCM: 100<>100 (bar is at 100%) 
   Front: 100<>100 (bar is at 100%) 
   Front Mi: 0<>0 (bar is at 0%) 
   Front Mi: 0<>0 (bar is at 0%) 
   Surround: 100<>100 (bar is at 100%) 
   Center: 100 (bar is at 100%) 
   LFE: 0<>0 (bar is at 100%) 
   Line: 0<>0 (bar is at 0%) 
   S/PDIF: (blank) (bar is NON Existant) 
   S/PDIF D: (blank) (bar is NON Existant) 
   S/PD 1: (blank) (bar is NON Existant) 
   S/PD 2: (blank) (bar is NON Existant) 
   Rear Mic: 0<>0 (bar is at 0%) 
   Rear Mic: 0<>0 (bar is at 0%) 

--- 
The F2 key gave six options, all starting with "/proc/asound/..." that I suspect many of you are familiar with. 

The F6 response gave these options: 
   -   (default) 
   0   HDA Intel PCH 
   1   Conextant CS23885 
       enter device name... 
--- 

Doe any of the above tell any of you why my audio does not work? 


LP





On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us> wrote:
>> I don't know what alsamixer is.
> 
> It's the program that runs when you type "alsamixer" then press enter.
> 
> It will tell you which sound output device your system is using and
> what the current volume settings are and if the output is muted.
> 
> Eric
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