payasam Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 (edited) 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. Edited October 25, 2009 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Check whether sound is not muted, through KMix for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Thank you. Right clicked on speaker icon. Sound not muted there. However, I do not see why muted sound should prevent video from playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Do you have the appropriate codecs installed for playing the audio and/or video files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Yes, arctic. All was well on the older machine, same installation on same HDD. I should say that I get no start-up sound either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Some computers, especially laptops have a hardware mute button. Make sure yours isn't muted. Â 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. Â Maybe disable pulse audio for a check. You can do this from MCC > Hardware > Sound Configuration. Â Try some headphones to check sound output there. Â http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_Errata#..._Dimension_4550 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 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 Â Maybe you ran into a persisting bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 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_Controllerhttp://www.nabble.com/-Bug-49814--pulseaud...2991694i20.html and here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/l....22/+bug/131133 Â 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... Â Â that's what I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 (edited) Thank you, all. Yes, scarecrow, it's Gnome. I say again, in MCC the sound card is correctly recognised. Â [EDIT] Running alsaconf is no good: I get a "command not found" message. Edited June 14, 2009 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 You can try changing some settings in MCC > Hardware > Sound Configuration. You can also look for possible problems there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted June 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Thank you, David. That was the obvious thing to do, so I did it. No luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Running alsaconf is no good: I get a "command not found" message. It's a separate package, named "alsaconf" which is installed by default. You should also have alsa-utils and alsaq-plugins-pulse-config installed by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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