Change Machine, No Sound (longish)

[stan]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:27:21 -0500
Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> stan wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:22:59 -0500

> > When I looked at my file, I realized I've been giving you bad
> > information.  The file in /etc is modprobe.conf, not modules.conf.
> > Here is how you set it
> 
> Hmm, mine looks a little odd...
> 
> $ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> alias eth0 via-rhine
> alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
> install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && 
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1
> || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
> install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx && 
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1
> || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx

I'll say.  I think you could reduce it to:

alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
card options snd-via82xx index=0
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

But I'm not sure of the purpose of all that intel8x0 and via82xx sound
module messing about.  Your card still seems to be recognized properly
below though.
> 
> 
> $ aplay -l
> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 0: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]
>    Subdevices: 4/4
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>    Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
>    Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
>    Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
> card 0: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 1: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]
>    Subdevices: 1/1
>    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 
> It looks like it found the "card".

Yes it does.
> 
> > 
> > So my default device is the ICE1724.  You want to see VIA32xx as
> > card 0.
> 
> I suppose that's a tpyo for VIA82xx.

Yes.

> 
> 
> Mike

By every indication, you should have sound.  If you have pulseaudio
installed and enabled, it could be causing the issue.  It might be as
simple as turning up the volume in pulseaudio.  I am not knowledgeable
about pulse, so for more information you can go to

http://www.pulseaudio.org/