Sound does not work

[stan]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
Adil Adil <adil.drissi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately it still does not work. Bellow you'll find the content
> o my alsa-info.txt after the updates. If there are some additional
> tests that you want me to do please let me know: ------------

The IEC958 is still on.  This is definitely from after the amixer
command was run?  Were there errors when running the command?  Or
warnings?

> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Mono: Playback [on]

> 	control.33 {
> 		comment.access 'read write'
> 		comment.type BOOLEAN
> 		comment.count 1
> 		iface MIXER
> 		name 'IEC958 Playback Switch'
> 		value true
> 	}

Below are the errors saying that the analog part of your card was not
active. i.e. why you have no sound

> !!ALSA/HDA dmesg
> !!------------------
> 
> firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 00e01800034c8845, S400
> ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2122: AC'97 0 analog subsections not
> ready intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50452 usecs
> --
> Intel ICH Modem 0000:00:02.6: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ
> 18 ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2154: MC'97 1 converters and GPIO
> not ready (0xff00) device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
> 

Please do the following:

Run 
amixer -c 0 cset iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Switch',value=false

If there are no errors, check immediately after whether the above values
have changed in the output of alsa-info.txt.  If they have, you should
have sound.

If there are errors, please post them.

This is an alternate way of trying to change the control value.