Sound isn't working in Mepis

Well this is a shot in the dark but if nothing else maybe we can provide some info to the crew that will help fix this. Do a lsmod | grep snd & post it to see whats loading. If you're a hands on kind a guy you might raise the hood and have a look at the sound chips, Realtek, Alc or what ever might help too. Some boards have both Alc sound chips with Realtek mixer chips so there may be two involved with sound. Also is kmix greyed out or no.

jim

Please tell me if you have a normal speaker icon in the taskbar or if it is crossed out...

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Howdy. There is a normal speaker icon, but one thing I forgot to mention is that there is no Master Volume Control bar in KMix. According to some forums I've read up on, that should be present. I only have the following bars available.

PCM
Front
Surround
Center
LFE
Mux

None of them are muted, but the LFE and Mux are turned down all the way. The rest are turned up all the way.

Also, I'm running version 6.5 of Mepis if that helps.

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Hey there Jim. Thanks for replying. Per your request...

shawn@1[~]$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 15768 1
snd_hda_codec 195760 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 37408 0
snd_mixer_oss 14336 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 62856 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 18308 1 snd_pcm
snd 45928 8 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7008 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7560 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

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PS. Sorry, I missed your last question. No, KMix is accessible.

Thanks now one more and this is a biggie. Is there any possible way you could have a look at that mother board and id the sound chip or the motherboard? Dell is not giving up any info on the board maker or or model number much less the sound chip that i can find. The only thing i can find is it's supposed to be a Intel 965 chip set but that doesn't narrow the possibilities of sound implementation to a great degree in my way of thinking unless you know who made the board. If you can look for numbers or logos. For instance the ALC chips have a deer head with antlers or Realtek written on them. I suspect that is the chip we are dealing with but need to be sure. Motherboards usually have the model number silk screened on them some where.

jim

If you right click the speaker icon, you can set the master channel. This should normally be PCM. However, if there are other options, you can experiment.

Anothr thing to check is right clicking the speaker icon > show mixer window. In input and output tabs there are several channels to activate by clicking the green light. Try that.

Last but not least: open a console and type 'alsamixer'. This brings up the alsa sound mixer, whcih may have channels muted.

Your sound card is recognized, for if it wasn't, the speaker icon would be crossed out. Only thing now is to tweak it correctly....

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ko@1[~]$ lspci | grep -i audio
0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
ko@1[~]$

It's the same one (albeit rev.2), and it works fine in my HP DV9055 laptop. Should work on your system too - try the methods stated by carlops.

Regards, Ko

Ko Bros

Thank you! All of those green lights were darkened, but sound is working now that I've activated them all. I didn't click them when I initially moused over them because they are labeled as "mute" and I thought that clicking them would only mute the sound.

Anyway, you can consider this issue resolved. Thanks again guys!

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I tried all the suggestions in this group and others and finally gave up on Mepis - and KDE in the process. Too many flaky problems kept popping up, aside from the "no sound" issue. Items in the KDE taskbar would mysteriously vanish (like the battery meter and the Gmail icon) and VNC from my job to my home wouldn't always work - and when it did, it would constantly force me to retype my connection password. These annoyances aren't worth the trouble to search for resolutions when I can pop Ubuntu onto my system and have everything working as advertised.

Sorry, Mepis - I gave it the old 3-strikes but it's out... at least on my laptop.
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