I get no - or possibly extremely little - sound in 11.3 (final version)
on a machine with the ATI Azalia chip. Sound is fine in 11.2. A bug
(608066) was raised for this back in May.
Anyone get this working?
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy
I have that sound chip on my MSI mb using 11.3 64 bit it works fine even has digital out working too mine was a bit quiet I just made sure the mixer was turned up, don’t know what else to tell ya… sorry
On 15/07/10 22:16, dwarrens wrote:
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> I have that sound chip on my MSI mb using 11.3 64 bit it works fine even
> has digital out working too mine was a bit quiet I just made sure the
> mixer was turned up, don’t know what else to tell ya… sorry
>
>
Thanks anyway. Mixer is up to the max but all I hear is the sound of
silence. Same settings blast out quite nicely on 11.2.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy
Tried with alsamixer? Instead of just kmix, install and check volume levels in alsamixer…
Just installed 11.3 and got the same problem with the analog output. I have a VT1718S chipset and I found some posts where a VT1708S chipset was also affected.
One thing I noticed is that the HDMI output (and just that) seems to somehow work: use KDE system config -> Multimedia and play the test sound there when the HDMI device is selected
But the problem with HDMI output is:
Does anyone know if this problem will be fixed ? Looks like I have to go back to 11.2 for a while…
same problem! i installed 11.3 pretty much as soon as it was available, installed multimedia codecs, and everything worked like a charm. then i installed some updates. not sure which one did it, but all i have now are the log in/out sounds
azalea has been a consistant pain in the ass for me with various distros … it works with linux mint gnome though, for the record…
if you get it figured out, please post an answer!
On 16/07/10 08:26, vendetta18 wrote:
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> Tried with alsamixer? Instead of just kmix, install and check volume
> levels in alsamixer…
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Thanks, this revealed the problem and solution.
I installed AlsaMixerGUI and ran it. I noticed that the first channel,
Master Front, was set at zero so I clicked on the columns to raise it to
the max. The volume then worked.
On another user, I looked at the Kmix display and saw that there was no
“Master Front” displayed, just “Front” and a few others. I went into
configuration and added “Master Front”, raised it to the max, and got
full volume on a test.
A check on Kmix 11.2 and 11.3 revealed that the “Master” channel seems
to have been renamed “Master Front” and so, apparently, got dropped from
the default display.
Is this a Kmix change that caused the problem? I don’t understand how as
I’ve used KDE 4.4.4 on both 11.2 and 11.3 without this problem showing
up on 11.2.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy
Cloddy, do you also have a ATI Azalea card or a VIA VT1708S/ VT1718S chip ?
Alsamixergui shows this information on the top.
I already tried to increase all volumes with different programs, but no success.
There are also some hints that this problem has different reason as there is a
strange click noise when linux boots up and the audio modules are (wrongly?)
initializing the audio chipset.
On 17/07/10 20:06, TorstenBesch wrote:
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> Cloddy, do you also have a ATI Azalea card or a VIA VT1708S/ VT1718S
> chip ?
The clue is in the title. 
Although, having said that, 11.3 reckons
I also have an nVidia sound chip in the system as well as the Azalia. No
idea what that’s about.
> Alsamixergui shows this information on the top.
>
> I already tried to increase all volumes with different programs, but no
> success.
>
> There are also some hints that this problem has different reason as
> there is a
> strange click noise when linux boots up and the audio modules are
> (wrongly?)
> initializing the audio chipset.
>
>
I think you’re probably right. I got an extremely faint sound of chimes
from the next parish as I logged on rather than a click. As I said, I
only had to wind up the sound for one channel to get it to work.
I have two other machines, one with an Intel 82801g and this with an
nVidia MCP61, and they’re both OK and both retain the “master” channel.
Only the Azalia machine has had the “master” channel changed to “master
front”.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy
it worked, thanks a lot!