I've been playing with this for a few days now, and have gotten to that dangerous stage of making random attempts with whatever clues my searches yield. So before I completely make a pig's ear of it.
I currently can get sound out of my desktop speakers from the audio-output jack-socket at the rear of the PC tower, if the sound is from a Youtube video running on the Firefox browser. However, I don't get any sound output if I try and play a standard test wav file (piano2.wav) or an mp3 file (hendrix.mp3 - who else).
eg.
Also, and which is probably related, I cannot record mic input (or possibly playback), yet if I tap, whistle or talk into the mic it comes through the speaker albeit with slightly poor quality. My mic is similarly plugged into the audio-input jack-socket at the rear of the PC tower.
Initial applications I tried to test sound include
From the outset I followed the instructions in the
I've added changes to config files:-
Here's rc.conf, though I don't think it is involved.
dmesg yields
I also changed:-
Mixer output is:-
I have tried :-
but that doesn't seem to have any effect either.
Under the MATE gui, from Applications->Sound & Video->Sound my Sound Preference have Input set to
Any help would be much appreciated.
I currently can get sound out of my desktop speakers from the audio-output jack-socket at the rear of the PC tower, if the sound is from a Youtube video running on the Firefox browser. However, I don't get any sound output if I try and play a standard test wav file (piano2.wav) or an mp3 file (hendrix.mp3 - who else).
eg.
Code:
# play piano2.wav
piano2.wav:
File Size: 1.21M Bit Rate: 1.54M
Encoding: Signed PCM
Channels: 2 @ 16-bit
Samplerate: 48000Hz
Replaygain: off
Duration: 00:00:06.31
In:100% 00:00:06.31 [00:00:00.00] Out:303k [ | ] Clip:0Also, and which is probably related, I cannot record mic input (or possibly playback), yet if I tap, whistle or talk into the mic it comes through the speaker albeit with slightly poor quality. My mic is similarly plugged into the audio-input jack-socket at the rear of the PC tower.
Initial applications I tried to test sound include
xoscope - which has a trace but doesn't respond to any mic input, audacity - which appears to record, but nothing plays back. I've also installed among other things pulseaudio, ffmpeg, moc, and mplayer.From the outset I followed the instructions in the
7.2 Setting up the Sound card chapter in the Handbook.I've added changes to config files:-
Code:
# cat /boot/loader.conf
cuse_load="YES"
snd_hda_load="YES"
fuse_loader="YES"Here's rc.conf, though I don't think it is involved.
Code:
# cat /etc/rc.conf
hostname="red-dwarf"
ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"
sshd_enable="YES"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="AUTO"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="YES"
sddm_enable="YES"
slim_enable="YES"
devfs_system_ruleset="localrules"
cupsd_enable="YES"
devfs_system_ruleset="system"
#webcamd_enable="YES"dmesg yields
Code:
# dmesg | grep pcm
pcm0: <Realtek ALC882 (Rear Digital 10ch/2.0)> at nid 20,22,21,23,30 and 31 on hdaa0
pcm1: <Realtek ALC882 (Analog 2.0/5.1)> at nid 27 and 26,28,24 on hdaa0I also changed:-
Code:
# systctl hw.snd.default_unit=1
hw.snd.default_unit: 1 -> 1Mixer output is:-
Code:
# mixer
Mixer vol is currently set to 78:78
Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100
Mixer line is currently set to 71:71
Mixer mic is currently set to 67:67
Mixer cd is currently set to 50:50
Mixer rec is currently set to 26:26
Mixer igain is currently set to 100:100
Recording source: line, mic, cdI have tried :-
Code:
# sysctl hw.snd.default_auto=1
hw.snd.default_auto: 0 -> 1but that doesn't seem to have any effect either.
Under the MATE gui, from Applications->Sound & Video->Sound my Sound Preference have Input set to
/dev/dsp1 and Output set to /dev/dsp0Any help would be much appreciated.
