Re: [Alsa-user] VT1818S no sound

[Alan G. <al...@pt...>]

On 2012-01-17, Alan Greenberger <al...@pt...> wrote:
> On 2012-01-16, Clemens Ladisch <cla...@go...> wrote:
>> Alan Greenberger wrote:
>>> I tried booting the live distribution grml64_2011.12 .
>>> While grml is booting, it plays few tones to the speaker, proving the
>>> audio hardware is working, but after that, aplay, speaker-test are still
>>> silent.
>>
>> There should be no difference between the boot sound and aplay.
>>
>> Try "aplay -D plughw:0 something.wav".
>>
>> Try toggling the "Independent HP" and/or "Smart 5.1" controls.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Clemens
>
> I rebooted grml which plays its welcome tones, ran alsamixer and set
> everything max.  On "Independent", I pressed '+' which made it go from
> Off to On.  "Smart" just has a box with 00 in it and I couldn't find
> anything to press to change it.  I mounted a usb stick with aud002.wav
> which plays on another computer.  When I typed:
> aplay -D plughw:0 aud002.wav
> there was still no sound.

I installed the newly backported kernel for Squeeze, 3.1.0.0.bpo.1-amd
and rebooted.  It also has no sound.  However, I was hearing a
low volume repetitive "heartbeat" from the speaker.