[Solved] Sound not working

[forrest]

I am new to Salix and linux in general
after I installed salix on my laptop the sound has not worked alsamixer was working at first but it did not fix my sound problems now I just get this

cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

I searched but I couldn't find anything that would help me, being new to linux I have no idea what to do

[gapan]

What did you do in the meantime to change that behaviour? The solution to "no sound" problems is 99.9% one of the following:

1. Run the ALSA sound card tool from the system menu and select the right soundcard.
2. Run alsamixer and make sure everything is unmuted and volume is raised.

[forrest]

I tried the sound card tool I selected the HDA-Intel sound card
I tried alsamixer in the terminal when I try to run it I get cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
sound still does not work

[djemos]

You first have to search in the wiki. So try this to see if solves your problem. http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 501#p20501

[forrest]

Ok I tried that it didn't work but I'm not certain that I did it right

[djemos]

The file is .asoundrc There is a dot in front of it.
what is the output of

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aplay -l

and

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lspci | grep -i audio

[forrest]

the output from aplay -l is
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC260 Analog [ALC260 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

and the output from lspci | grep -i audio is
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

[djemos]

Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf with a line like this.

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options snd-hda-intel model=auto

If this does not work try different models as model=basic
Possible models for the ALC260 can be found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt

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ALC260
======
  fujitsu       Fujitsu S7020
  acer          Acer TravelMate
  will          Will laptops (PB V7900)
  replacer      Replacer 672V
  favorit100    Maxdata Favorit 100XS
  basic         fixed pin assignment (old default model)
  test          for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls can
                adjusted.  Appearing only when compiled with
                $CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
  auto          auto-config reading BIOS (default)

Reboot.

[forrest]

thank you that worked

[jcoleman]

This also worked for my HD ATI SB ALC887-VD Analog/Digital; which wasn't listed in the HD-Audio-Models. txt file.

Using default Alsa sound card setting
Mixer is set at HDA ATI SB (alsa mixer)

Thanks!! This is the almost last hurdle in setting up SalixOS64 14.0.
Just need to get LibreCad to compile - I'll keep looking