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I have just moved from a Pentium III machine to a Pentium IV one. MDV 2009.1 correctly recognises Intel 82801DB audio, but there is no sound from the speakers. When playing a music file, VLC's progress indicator moves -- but there is silence. When attempting to play a video file, VLC and MPlayer both show the screen just for a second before it disappears. The speakers are getting current and fiddling with the plug makes them crackle. Video not playing makes me think it cannot be a hardware problem.

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Some computers, especially laptops have a hardware mute button. Make sure yours isn't muted.

 

Check your volume control settings, there are several. Star > Sound & Video > PulseAudio Volume Control. Star > Sound & Video > KMix Sound Mixer (or applet on taskbar). Configure Desktop > Multimedia.

 

Maybe disable pulse audio for a check. You can do this from MCC > Hardware > Sound Configuration.

 

Try some headphones to check sound output there.

 

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_Errata#..._Dimension_4550

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Not a laptop, David, and no hardware mute control. I've disabled Pulse without effect. Must scour the system now for other volume and mute controls that may have got activated by themselves. Have an earphone somewhere but can't find the damn thing.

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Some time ago, there was a kernel problem with the audio driver in some distros. See e.g. here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller

http://www.nabble.com/-Bug-49814--pulseaud...2991694i20.html

and here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/l....22/+bug/131133

 

Maybe you ran into a persisting bug.

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When attempting to play a video file, VLC and MPlayer both show the screen just for a second before it disappears.
Try running mplayer from the command line, and see if it prints out an error message. That will probably help narrow down what its problem is. Also try with different videos, for example ones that you've made yourself. Or try to play a wav or ogg with mplayer, see what it says.
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Shut down every app that may use your soundcard (including gnome mixer on the tray- you are running Gnome, or not?), and in a root console run

alsaconf

You have three chances: 1. seeing your PC internal speaker as default sound device 2. your actual soundcard listed and 3.a prompt to search for ISA soundcards, as none was detected.

On which case of the above you are belonging?

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Some time ago, there was a kernel problem with the audio driver in some distros. See e.g. here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller

http://www.nabble.com/-Bug-49814--pulseaud...2991694i20.html

and here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/l....22/+bug/131133

 

Maybe you ran into a persisting bug.

we have to check that because my notebook used to do that before I install the video codecs (it just happened in the video, sound worked fine) make sure your video card have the appropiate driver...have you test it? also make sure the audio drivers are fine using the troubleshooting options...

 

 

that's what I did

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Thank you, all. Yes, scarecrow, it's Gnome. I say again, in MCC the sound card is correctly recognised.

 

[EDIT] Running alsaconf is no good: I get a "command not found" message.

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