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Ninho
AntiX 17.2 (64bits, core version – running from CD, with ‘frugal’ persistence) : Hi ! My computer has – in theory – 2 possible ways out for sound,
viz. digital (HDMI/DVI) versus analog output to speakers. The digital way is not present physically, not connected on this machine, using only the analog outputs – but AntiX by default wants to output sound thru HDMI . With AntiX-16 (desktop) “control center” I was able to switch to the right, analogic, output.This AntiX 17 – core version, however, its (command line) control center – accessed for the ‘cli-cc’ tool – doesn’t seem like it offers a way to switch away from HDMI (I don’t even HAVE a HDMI socket out of this box, just DVI and, it, does NOT do sound, AFAICT. Neither does my video monitor). So, what am I to do ? What, if any, commands and/or command line tools to run to this end ? Or must I download/install other software using ‘apt’ ?
TIA !
fatmac
> Can you run alsamixer – F6 to change your sound card ?
A.- Yes, I did that (forgot to report) but no joy.
Still no sound.
And ‘speaker-test’ always fails, with diagnostics :
ALSA library pcm-dmix.c:1052 (…) unable to open slave.
Open error on read : -2Anonymous
The (…) ellipsed-out portion of the reported error message probably contains vital info, the ID= for the unknown device
The solution is likely the same one described in these
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1045829#p1045829
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-996352-start-0.htmlAck ! The elision was an unfortunate consequence of not having the affected system at hand while posting. thanks for the pointers; I’ll report back as soon as I’ve had the opportunity to test and try the solutions proposed there !
Edited, to add the (…) “ellipsed-out portion of the reported error message :”
ALSAlib pcm-dmix.c:1052 (snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slaveIt was not so much informative anywayn or was it ?
@736b69646f6f : And, so, I’ve followed your (first) link above, per which I created a new
/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf [it didn’t exist yet],containing just one line as :
options snd-hda-intel id=Generic index=1Rebooted, and, lo and behold ! I now have sound, clear and loud, out of the speakers ! Tried the radio-player with success !
I should mention that the bootlog (dmesg) still spit a line of diagnostics repeated for hundreds of times, which must be pointing to smthg still missing/not right in my “fixed” sound system configuration, but, heck ! IT WORKS now – I might dig further in the cosmetic (?) error later…
Thank you for the helpful hints !
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